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:: Holiday Styles
Guided Holidays
Best of Namibia Wing Safari
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2008:
7 Days Fly in Luxury Accommodation from US$5185 pp ( 1 st December 2007 to 15 th June 2008 ) to US$5505 pp (16 th June to 30th November 2008 ) (Single Supplement US$880).
Tailor made departures from Windhoek throughout the year.
Routing: Windhoek to Windhoek.
Highlights: 2 nights Sossusvlei, Walvis Bay boat cruise, 2 nights Damaraland, 2 nights Etosha.
Details: Luxury fly-in safari inclusive of return light aircraft.
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Days 1&2: Sossusvlei Wilderness Camp, Sesriem area |
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The safari departs from Eros Airport ( Windhoek ) by light aircraft for Sossusvlei Wilderness Camp, approximately an hour's flight away. You will depart in the late morning. Activities are conducted in 4x4 vehicles and include a safari down to the very end of the Tsauchab River and into the heart of Sossusvlei for wonderful dune scenes. Optional early morning hot air ballooning can be arranged for an extra cost, this must be booked in advance. Late afternoons allow time to explore the reserve around the camp. |
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Days 3&4: Damaraland Camp, Damaraland |
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Depart by light aircraft and fly over the dunes of the Namib and Sossusvlei to gain a different perspective from the air. We continue westwards to Meob Bay on the Atlantic Ocean and then fly up the Skeleton Coast. The flight offers spectacular desert and Skeleton Coast scenery, where the dunes and the desert meet the Atlantic Ocean. Your flight takes you over the site of the Eduard Bolen shipwreck, past Conception Bay and the wreck site of the Shaunee, around Sandwich Harbour and its famous lagoon, the flamingos at Walvis Bay and on to Swakopmund. Here you will be met and transferred to Walvis Bay for a wonderful boat trip out to sea where there are frequently good sightings of dolphins, seals and sometimes even penguins and whales. In the afternoon depart from Swakopmund for a scenic flight further up the Skeleton Coast and past the Cape Cross Seal Colony before we turn east and fly up the Huab River to Damaraland Camp for two nights. Highlights of the stay include nature excursions into the rocky desert in search of the rare and endangered desert Elephant and Rhino. |
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Days 5&6: Etosha area, Ongava Lodge or Ongava Tented Camp |
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Fly by light aircraft from Damaraland to Ongava Lodge or Ongava Tented Camp for two nights. Etosha, covering an area of 22,000 square kilometres, offers excellent game viewing opportunities. Your game drive activities will focus mainly within Etosha in the mornings. In the afternoon and evening you will have the opportunity to enjoy walks, hides and night drives within the private Ongava Reserve, activities not possible within Etosha. Lion, Leopard, Elephant White Rhino and Black Rhino as well as all the plains game can be seen here. Tracking Rhino on foot is one of Ongava's highlights. |
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Day 7: Fly out Windhoek |
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Depart from Ongava Lodge for your flight back to Windhoek. |
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