3 day scheduled tour departs Windhoek daily
3 day scheduled tours departing from Windhoek , taking you to the world famous Namib desert visiting Sossusvlei and the Sesriem canyon.
Climb some of the highest dunes on earth, some as high as 320 metres.
Walk to the Dead Vlei and enter a surreal world of ghost-like camel-thorn trees. The Namib Naukluft Park encompasses the Naukluft mountain range and the Namib desert and is an ecologically protected area.
SOSSUSVLEI SHUTTLE
Surreal Sossusvlei – a Sossusvlei shuttle tour
Four days and three nights tour to the Namib and Sossusvlei. Climb the dunes just before dawn and be treated to a magical show of ever-changing lights and shadows.
Worth the effort is the walk into the Dead Vlei area.
This ancient clay pan was once an oasis, studded with acacias and fed by a river that suddenly changed course, leaving the earth to dry up along with the trees it previously supported.
So dry were the climatic conditions that the trees never decomposed, instead they were entirely leached of moisture.
Today, 900 years later, they remain as desiccated, blackened sentinels dotting the pan’s cracked surface.
Surrounded by the red-pink dunes of the Namibian Desert, they create a surreal spectacle that is a photographer’s dream.
Namib-Naukluft Park
The Namib is the world’s oldest desert, and although it stretches along the entire length of Namibia’s coastline, the Namib commonly refers to the vast sea of sand from Luderitz to Swakopmund. For a big sandy desert the scenery is remarkably varied, with the giant red dunes of Sossusvlei being the most famous part.
Because of how old it is the Namib is home to numerous species that do not occur elsewhere and although no humans live in the desert an amazing array of flora and fauna manages to survive here.
Famous species include the Welwitschia (a living fossil plant), endemic chameleons, fur seals along the coast, brown hyenas, jackals and remarkably one of Africa’s largest antelope the Gemsbok.
The name Namib is of Nama origin and means “vast place” and vast it certainly is.