Arrive in the capital city of Windhoek. We will meet you at the airport and transport you to The Arebbusch Travel Lodge, where you can check into your room and rest or relax at the pool before dinner.

Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary

After breakfast, you’ll load up into your safari vehicles. You will pass through the haunting beauty of the Namib Desert to Neuras Wine and Wildlife Estate where you will check into your room and enjoy a wine and cheese tasting for lunch.

Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary

The afternoon cheetah feeding at Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary will give you an up close look at one of Africa’s top predators, the cheetah.

Sossusvlei

After an early morning departure from Neuras, enjoy the dunes of Namib-Naukluft National Park as they cast elegant shadows in the morning light. How anything survives here is a mystery. The dead trees emerging of the Sossusvlei sticking out of the sunbaked mud paints a beautifully apocalyptic scene. Our 4X4 jeeps will get you in and out while giving you a chance to see oryx, springbok, ostriches, and more. By afternoon you will be in Walvis Bay for dinner and prepare for the boat excursion and 4X4 jeep ride through the dunes of Sandwich Harbor.

Mola Mola Safaris

After breakfast, we will walk to the harbor for a 8:30am boat tour of the surrounding bay, followed by a gourmet lunch on the beach (this lunch is included with the tour fee) and an afternoon 4×4 jeep tour of Sandwich Harbor and the surrounding dunes. If seals and pelicans jump onto the boat, do not be alarmed, but do take a selfie. The sight of sand dunes clashing with the ocean is otherworldly. You can expect to see fur seals, pelicans, flamingos, dolphins, and possibly humpback whales.

Swakopmund

After breakfast, we will depart at 7:30 am for Swakopmund to take a guided “Little Five Wildlife Tour” via 4×4 jeeps in the surrounding Namib Desert. Our guide, Chantelle, is a very knowledgeable and passionate naturalist who will show us the often overlooked and misunderstood creatures and why it is important to be aware of the smaller life right below our feet. Expect to see skinks, lizards, geckos, tube spiders and possibly snakes.

Twyfelfontein

After breakfast, we will depart at 9 am for Twyfelfontein, approximately 5 hours, making stops along the way for cultural visits and to browse local wares.

Twyfelfontein

After breakfast, we will take a one-hour guided walking tour of the Twyfelfontein cultural site & petroglyphs. You will visit rock carvings older than the Egyptian pyramids. Afterward, you will visit the Damara Living Museum and learn how people survived in the bush for millennia.

Damara Living Museum

After the guided tour of Twyfelfontein, we will visit a living museum of the Damara people to observe their customs and traditions, as well as browse local wares. Your afternoon will be spent driving to Mondjila Safari Camp near Etosha National Park, where the wildlife is ever present.

Etosha National Park

Depart Mondjila Safari Camp at 6:45 am for a self-guided drive into Etosha National Park to view wildlife. The world famous Etosha National Park and Onguma private game reserve will leave you with memories that linger for the rest of your life. Expect to see elephants, giraffes, plains zebras, several species of antelope, abundant birdlife and possibly lions, black rhinos, cheetahs, spotted hyenas, and leopards. Sit back, relax, and take it all in. You’ll be spending the next couple nights at the beautiful Bush Camp Lodge with massage services if you’re a bit stiff from all that adventuring.

In the morning, half of you will go to a very special place - Onguma’s famous Onkolo Hide. This structure allows you to sit in safety at ground level as an array of wildlife visits the waterhole. The other half of the group will embark on another majestic morning safari in Etosha National Park.

Everyone will come together for the sundowner game drive in the evening light. Save some battery in your cameras for those last rays of light hitting the treetops before returning to the lodge for dinner. Expect to see elephants, giraffes, plains zebras, several species of antelope, abundant birdlife and possibly black rhinos, lions, cheetahs, spotted hyenas, and leopards.

Etosha Pan

The groups will switch morning activities to allow everybody the opportunity to experience the Onkolo Hide in Onguma as well as a morning game drive in the eastern side of Etosha National Park. Expect to see elephants, giraffes, plains zebras, several species of antelope, abundant birdlife and possibly black rhinos, lions, cheetahs, spotted hyenas, and leopards.

Bwabwata National Park

After breakfast, we will depart Roy's for Popa Falls, roughly 4.5 hours away. We will check into our rooms, rest a bit, and embark on an evening game drive along the Kavango River in the Manhango Core of Bwabwata National Park. This region has large populations of elephants, hippos, crocodiles, cape buffalo, birdlife, and rare species of antelope. The same majesty of Africa with different scenery, plants, animals, and water.

Buffalo Core Area

Early morning departure after breakfast for the Eastern Zambezi region to visit another part of Bwabwata National Park, where we will go on a game drive in hopes of seeing the rare and elusive African wild dog. This region has large populations of elephants, hippos, crocodiles, cape buffalo, birdlife, and rare species of antelope. After the game drive in Bwabwata, we will continue on to Kasane, Botswana, where we will be staying at Sunbirds Chobe Hotel.

Chobe National Park

Early morning (5:45am) departure for a game drive in Chobe National Park. Expect to see elephants, abundant birdlife, cape buffalo, hippos, crocodiles, lions, and possibly leopards. We will return to Sunbirds Lodge for lunch (lunch is included with the tour fee).

Chobe National Park

Evening boat tour on the Chobe River. Expect to see elephants, abundant birdlife, cape buffalo, hippos, crocodiles, and possibly snakes while watching the sun set over the river. We will return to Chobe Sunbirds Hotel for dinner and lodging

Victoria Falls

There are things on this earth you cannot grasp through a screen. One of those is Victoria Falls - 1,700 meters wide and roaring like a hundred lions. After breakfast, we will depart at 7:30am for Victoria Falls National Park, roughly one hour away, where we will spend a few hours exploring the falls. We'll have lunch at a local restaurant on the Zambezi River, visit a nearby shopping mall, then return to Kasane for dinner and lodging at Sunbirds Chobe Hotel where we will reminisce on the splendor we’ve witnessed in the last 2 weeks and share our favorite moments.

Kasane

After breakfast, we will be driven to the Kasane airport and fly to Johannesburg, South Africa to connect with homebound flights. The adventure draws to a close, but the memories will last a lifetime. You will feel as though you've experienced more in the past two weeks than you did in the previous two decades.