4 Day Etosha Tour

We depart Windhoek toward the popular Etosha National Park. A stop may be made at Mount Etjo to collect more clients for this tour. We continue via Outjo into Etosha National Park. We undertake the first game drive en route to the Rest Camp. The Park covers an area of 22 270 square kilometers of saline desert, savannah and woodland. Etosha is one of the largest game reserves in Africa.

The main feature of the park is the salt pan, which is a vast shallow depression of white saline sand that shimmers with mirages during the heat of most days. It is known as the ‘great white place of dry water’. To observe the large herds of game against this eerie background makes the Etosha game-viewing experience unique.
Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Private Lodge near Etosha

The entire day is spent in the park visiting the various waterholes. Quite a few of the animals found in the park are rare and endangered, such as the black rhino and the black-faced impala. Approximately 340 bird species occur in the Etosha National Park, of which only one third is migratory. Etosha is one of the most important breeding grounds of the greater and lesser flamingo in the Southern African region. This park is a bird-watchers and photographer’s paradise! A lunch stop is made at one of the rest camps (lunch on own account).

Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Accommodation: Private Lodge near Etosha

We visit the various waterholes in eastern region of the Etosha National Park. Etosha was proclaimed a National Park in 1907 by the German Governor Von Lindequist. We will see more of the zebra, springbuck, wildebeest and giraffe. A lunch stop will be made at one of the Rest Camps (lunch on own account). We leave the Park through the Von Lindequist Gate before sunset to arrive at a Lodge bordering the Etosha National Park.

Meals: Breakfast & Dinner
Accommodation: Private Lodge near Etosha

Today we visit Lake Otjikoto. This lake was formed when a huge dolomite cave collapsed. Many thought the lake was bottomless until it was proven back in 1927 that it could vary from between 33m and 90m in depth. There are endemic mouth-breeding fish in this lake. The retreating German Forces dumped a considerable amount of military equipment here in 1915. On subsequent dives cannons, machine guns and other weapons were retrieved and can be seen at the Tsumeb museum.

We continue towards Windhoek via Otjiwarongo where a lunch stop will be made (lunch on own account). Thereafter we travel through Okahandja where we visit the Herero graves and the handcraft market. This is a good place to purchase a hand carved item. The tour ends on arrival in Windhoek during the afternoon.
Meals: Breakfast