Skeleton Coast
The Skeleton Coast is a slender 600 kilometre strip of sand and gravel, jagged ravines, dolorite dykes and some of the world’s most desolate shores. Yet, it is one of our planets most beautiful places and can host a fine safari. Over much of the past decade, access to this area within the National Park has been restricted. It is wild, desolate and uninhabited - and stunningly beautiful. This area has everything from soaring sand dunes that roar, wonderful, vast, pastel-coloured plains, towering canyons, mountains, salt pans to seal colonies and shipwrecks. Add to that game viewing! Fresh water springs permeate the barren sands to create rare oases in the desert the sustain pockets of wild life. Springbok, Gemsbok, the rare desert Elephant, Cape Fur Seals, Brown Hyena, Jackal, Ostrich and occasionally even Cheetah eke out an existence in this rugged terrain, alongside desert-adapted vegetation such as the ancient Welwitschia plant and Lithops, the succulent ‘flowering stones’. Also visit authentic Himba settlements, just outside the park for an incredible cultural experience.

Etosha National Park
Etosha , Namibia’s premiere wildlife park and one of Africa’s finest game sanctuaries, was first proclaimed in 1907. It is an immense, flat saline desert, covering 22,270km², which incorporates a diversity of habitats, including waterholes and pans. The Largest of these pans is the Etosha Pan, 120 kilometres long and 55 kilometres wide at its widest point. Most of the year the pan is dry, but there are saline seepages along the edges, punctuated by artesian wells. It is forbidden to drive on the pans, but there are roads which skirt the outer edges, allowing for endless, panoramic views out onto the salt pans which dominate the centre of the park from which its name derives - ‘Great White Place’.

Etosha is home to a wide variety of game, and you may encounter the rare Black Rhinoceros, the unusual Black-faced Impala and the endearing Damara Dik-dik, one of Africa’s smallest antelope. There are large populations of the Springbok, Burchell’s Zebra as well as the Hartmann’s (mountain) Zebra, Giraffe, Red Hartebeest, Blue Wildebeest, Gemsbok, Eland, Kudu, Roan, and of course Elephant. With such a large population of antelope, your predators abound: Lion, Cheetah, Leopard and both Spotted and Brown Hyeanas.

For the keen birder, there is an abundance of species; over 390 have been recorded in the park. The large raptors are well represented, as is the stately ostrich and waders, which inundate the pans during the rainy season along with the thousands of pelicans. This area also serves as an important breeding ground for flamingos, which flock to the area after the summer rains, breeding in the shallow pans.

Dunes of Sossusvlei
Sossusvlei, this is a sweeping wasteland of dunes, drifting sand and gravel plains, mists that roll in from the sea, solitude and an immense silence. The land appears to be lifeless but is in fact home to an intriguing array of small creatures ranging from beetles and termites to lizards and snakes. It must be one of the must be one of the most remarkable sites in the Namib -Naukluft Park and the Namib Desert. The magnificent Sossusvlei dunes and the “vlei” itself at the end of the Tsauchab River - a dry river bed that only flows in years of exceptional rainfall. Huge towering dunes, said to be the highest in the world, rise dramatically over 1000 feet above the surrounding plains. The spectacle of changing colours and the lonely Oryx silhouetted against the red dunes is one which visitors and photographers from around the world come to savour and capture on film.

Damaraland
Damaraland is the mountainous region in north-west Namibia inhabited by the Damaras and named after them. Originally it was an area occupied primarily by the Damara people, but it soon becam the home of other tribes such as the Hereros and the displaced Riemvasmakers of south Africa. Today, many residents of Damaraland are of mixed heritage, but most consider themselves Damara. The word is derived from the Nama word “Dama”, meaning “who walked here”. This is because the Damara were known to the Nama people by the footprints they left around waterholes. The area presents endless vistas across stark plains, ancient valleys and soaring peaks. The brooding mass of the Brandberg provides a focal point in the south, housing the highest peak in Namibia, Königstein. Early morning mists, generated by the meeting of the icy Atlantic and the warm land mass along the Skeleton Coast, drift inland along the river lines, providing sustenance to varied life forms. The rivers flow only once or twice during the short rainy season, seldom breaking through the dunes to the ocean.