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Desert & Delta
A trip of amazing contrasts through Africa's true wilderness. From the verdant waterways of the Delta to the arid desert and towering dunes of Namibia, every day offers a new experience. Time in the tranquil paradise of the Okavango Delta is a great way to start the trip before heading to Tsodillo Hills for a taste of local culture. Etosha National Park and Mahango park offer great game viewing. Travelling across the red sands of the Kalahari and climbing the dunes at Sossuvlei ensure this is an interesting trip taking in the main highlights of Namibia and the world's largest inland delta.
Package Inclusions
- Camping accommodation
- Most meals
- The watery wilderness of the Okavango Delta
- The mystical Tsodilo Hills, rising from the barren desert
- Amazing wildlife viewing in Etosha National Park
- Adrenaline fuelled activities in Swakopmund
- Scale the highest sand dunes in the world at Sossusvlei
Trek Holidays
Trek Holidays has become Canada's largest wholesale adventure travel company and their staff have been to over 100 countries around the world. Trek works in conjunction with travel agents across Canada to prepare you for your arrival in a new destination based on their own personal experiences, videos, pre-departure booklets as well as reading lists.
- Day 1: Start Windhoek: Following arrival of the group flight you head to the Botswana border. The aim is, as long as there are no flight delays, to arrive at the border at lunchtime and camp near Ghanzi, Botswana. Tehre will then be an optional bushman walk the following morning, an opportunity to gain an insight in to the hunting and gathering skills developed by the bushman for their survival in this arid landscape. If there are delays you will spend the night close to the border, this will mean a longer drive the following morning therefore the bushman's walk will not be possible.
- Day 2: Maun: Today you travel to Maun, with its eclectic mix of modern buildings and native huts. There is time here to explore the town or to take an optional flight over the Delta for some amazing views.
- Day 3: Okavango Delta: This morning you leave early and take a relaxing drive into the Okavango Delta. You then change vehicles, for comfortable game viewing in the Delta. On reaching the river you will meet your guides and Mokoro polers. You sped time on the waterways of the Okavango Delta, travelling by Mokoro, traditional wooden dug out canoe. You glide along the pristine channels where there is excellent opportunity for photography. Set up camp in the shade while looking out over the river and molapo, and then take an evening game walk.
- Day 4: Tsodilo Hills: Rise early this morning and set out by Mokoro or on foot, to explore the area in search of game hopefully to find zebra, giraffe, elephant, jackals, antelope and fantastic bird life. On occasion you may also be able to see lion, leopard, buffalo, wild dog, bat-eared fox or hyena. Return to camp for breakfast and then cruise back down the crystal clear channels of the Boror and transfer to a camp for lunch. Back in your overland vehicle skirt the western side of the Delta and head to your campsite at Tsodilo Hills.
- Day 5: Game drive through Mahango National Park: There is an optional early morning guided walk to see some of the rock engravings that Tsodilo is famous for, before leaving Botswana and entering Namibia. Very close by is the Mahango National Park, a small but well populated park,where it is relatively common to see the elusive Sable antelope, sitatunga, reedbuck and a plethora of birdlife. Leaving the park you drive a short distance to your beautiful if somewhat eccentric campsite on the banks of the Kavango River.
- Day 6: Grootfontein: Today is a driving day through the most fertile area of Namibia, close to the Kavango river, with a quick stop to shop in the bustling town of Rundu, before heading southwest towards Grootfontein PC.
- Day 7: To Etosha: Today head to Etosha National Park. En route visit the largest meteorite ever found. Weighing some 80,000 kgs, it still lies where it was found in 1920 at Hoba Farm, near Grootfontein, Namibia. Your next stop will be Otjikoto Lake, one of the two remaining natural lakes in Namibia with a lot of history. Arrive in Etosha in the early afternoon and after setting up your camp at Namutoni campsite, take an afternoon game drive.
- Day 8: Etosha National Park: A full day to enjoy this fabulous game park. Etosha is a huge park of mixed forest and grassland centered around a large salt pan. Etosha is home to a great variety and number of game, which is easy to find as the animals congregate at different times around the waterholes. There are waterholes next to the excellent campsites, and it is not uncommon to spend all night watching a gala performance of animals: wildebeest, zebra, impala, gazelle, kudu, elephant, giraffe, lion and even rhino are all common sights here. Take plenty of film and lots of patience and you will be rewarded by one of the greatest game spectacles in Southern Africa. Etosha is also a good place for birds, with plenty of water birds on the lakes, and weaverbirds and hornbills in the trees. Camp tonight at Okaukuejo campsite, with a fantastic floodlit waterhole.
- Day 9: Spitzkoppe: After an early start and a short game drive out of the park head to the small town of Outjo, the farming centre of Damaraland, where you stop to shop, sample the coffee shop and watch the Herero ladies in their Victorian attire go about their daily business. Leaving here head west to Khorixas. If the group rises early enough in the morning there may also be a chance to visit the rock engraving at Twylefontein. You then turn south, leaving the tarred roads behind, heading into the wild Damaraland scenery. Camp tonight at Spitzkoppe, which at 1784 metres high is visible from 100 kilometers away. It is the granite core of a long vanished volcano, and is a fascinating place for a scramble amongst the rocks. You may see Rock Hyrax, and will almost certainly hear Barking Geckos as night falls. A great place to sleep out under the stars.
- Day 10: Swakopmund: Today leave the highlands after an optional early morning walk around the huge rocks, descend to sea level and arrive in Swakopmund, an attractive town, which retains much of the original character of the German colonial days, including several excellent cake shops. You have one night here to try out many of the enjoyable optional activities, including quad biking, sand boarding, shark fishing and balloon flights.
- Day 11: To Sesriem: After a morning spent engaging in adrenaline activities, sightseeing or shopping, head down the coast to Walvis Bay, possibly sighting dolphins in the surf close to the coast road, before heading inland again, and climbing up out of the oldest desert on earth. Your route takes you through two deep passes, Kuiseb and Gaub, and then runs parallel to the Rantberge and Naukluftberge mountain ranges. Camp close to Sesriem.
- Day 12: Spend most of the day around Sossuvlei and its dunes, one of the great sights of Africa. An early start to catch the sunrise over the first major dune. There is also time to climb some of the highest sand dunes in the world, including dune 45. If you're lucky you may see gemsbok or ostrich among the dunes, an irresistibly photogenic scene! Also drive along the edge of the Namib-Naukluft Park visiting the small but interesting Sesriem canyon. Leave the park and drive to Solitaire to camp.
- Day 13: There is a choice of two or three routes back to Windhoek, depending on which pass the group decides to climb. Whichever one is chosen, the views are spectacular as you wend your way into the highlands. There may be time for a quick final shop in Windhoek before you leave for the airport.
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