Leaving Swakopmund your Namibian Tour now heads inland. The morning is spent traversing the Namib Naukluft landscapes. The Namib Naukluft is a buffer zone of craggy mountains and ancient geostrata which is visible running alongside the road. The magnetic rock formations and deep ravines have very little water. Your safari will stop on many occasions allowing you to take photographs and observe petrified trees and tiny flowers. This is the day that perhaps you will see the very best of Namibia's landscapes. By lunchtime, you will reach the settlement of Solitaire it is a tiny hub of activity and the only place to take on fuel for the vehicles. From here it is a straight run into Sossusvlei.
Sossusvlei is the centre of the world-famous orange dunes of the Namib Desert. Your Namibia safari tour should reach here by early afternoon. From here you’ll check into your next lodge and see the stunning glow of the Namib desert around you. At night the stars come alight in the clear sky, and you will feel the temperature drop at incredible speed. A good Namibian dinner and a great solar hot shower is waiting for you.

One of the main highlights of our safaris. Today you are up before dawn. You will be brought a mug of piping hot coffee or tea and then start your Namib Desert tour. You’ll drive over the bumpy sandy track deeper and deeper into the Namib desert during morning twilight, to arrive in time to see Namibia’s stunning sunrise of colour fire up over the dunes.
It is 60 kilometres from the Lodge to the area of “Dead Vlei”, where the world-famous dunes occur. You will come up close to the petrified trees. The trees are dead – but this is a living desert so your Namibian guide will show you how to best protect and respect its flora and fauna.

Soon the heat will be intense, we’ll return to the lodges by the early afternoon. Now is the time to relax in the shade or in the pool.

In the glow of the evening, your guide will offer to take you to a viewpoint, or for a short bushwalk, and gaze at the immense skies overhead, turning from blue to lavender to grey to indigo. Following sunset, you will be served a hearty dinner alongside a roaring fire, and you’ll be happy to see your comfortable bed after this day. A long but rewarding day.

Leaving Sossusvlei you’ll drive back to the Namib Naukluft park and head south where you’ll cross a vast array of landscapes. It may look dry and orange, but by Namibian standards, this is lush farmland. Cattle, some sheep and occasional water tanks dot the landscape. You will see gazelle, ostriches and zebra freely roaming this friendlier environment. Your safari tour eventually turns towards the little settlement of Aus, where your lodge for the night is located.
An old horse and cattle farm has been refurbished as a fantastic remote luxury lodge. The lodge of Klein Aus Vista has on its enormous premises, a number of small desert horses that still live and roam free. The lodge offers guided walking tours around the premises, and as long as you wear some good shoes, you will enjoy a clamber about and a view at the end of the day.

On the final day you’ll travel a short distance from Aus to visit the ghost town of Kolmanskop. Kolmanskop used to be one of the mining trade posts along the train line connecting the coast and the hinterland. With the demise of the railway, the town became deserted and left to slowly disappear under the desert sands. Seeing Kolmanskop is a sobering yet impressive sight. The sand fills the houses and the streets around them. If you are a photographer, you will spend many hours here taking photos of the mesmerising interaction between nature and man-made buildings.

In the early afternoon, your tour reaches the final destination of Lüderitz. This is the weather-beaten harbour in the extreme south of Namibia. Lüderitz is a rare combination of slate grey buildings with Bavarian crosses and bell towers, hunkered down against the hillside. And yet the Atlantic Ocean beats down on the shores around Lüderitz spraying white foam over the rocks. But Lüderitz is also Africa and has vibrant coloured Namibian art in her shops and galleries with fresh seafood restaurants abound on the boulevard. No Lüderitz tour is complete without a visit to the cross at Cape Diaz which points the way towards the south.

From Lüderitz, your safari tour ends with a short flight back to Windhoek for an overnight stay and your departure home.