Safari in the Hoanib Valley & Skeleton Coast

Welcome to Namibia!

You land in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. Your driver is waiting for you and will take you to your hotel. Relax and recharge your batteries.

Today you fly on to the area of ​​Kaokoveld, which also extends into neighboring Angola. This is a dry, hilly and completely unknown region for most non-Namibians. The area is made up of people from three different ethnic groups: Damara, Herero and the Himba people – all with their own traditions and rituals.

In a country with so many large, beautiful and impressive landscapes, Kaokoland is perhaps the most beautiful of them all. We are very far away from the main road in the northwest of Namibia with mountains, large sand dunes and desert, here is a fascinating wildlife and here and there small nomadic clusters of Himba people. It is a unique environment, a wild environment and a place that few people visit during their lifetime. Enjoy every moment!

We have one last breakfast in the Hoanib Valley before embarking on adventures along the Skeleton Coast and to Shipwreck Lodge. The lodge is uniquely designed as one of the old shipwrecks you will see along the coast. This is a raw, robust and special place, a piece of wilderness where plains extend as far as the eye can reach. The Atlantic Ocean rolls in over the coast, sometimes calm and soothing, from time to time with a raging force.

But here is more than just wild nature. When staying at Shipwreck Lodge you can go on safari to spot desert elephants and lions. Many people are fascinated by the flora of the desert, where succulents and different kinds of moss are some of the most common. Look out over the landscape as the sun goes down, walk along the beach to look for traces of elephants, living or dead – and of the many ships that have ended their days here.

We eat our last breakfast in Namibia before we fly on to South Africa – to Cape Town. The beauty of the city combined with the local passion for good food and wine, makes this a perfect resort. If you want to go on a little wilder adventure, it can also be done. There are also many beaches, here is culture, shopping and everything else a big city has to offer.

Suggestions for what to do during your stay in Cape Town:

* Table Mountain Cable Way goes from the foot of the mountain and up to the top, a spectacular experience with the most beautiful views.

* Robben Island: Robben Island is the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years!

* Township Cultural Tours: A fantastic opportunity to see the city’s townships (or in the good Danish slums). But here is more than poverty and problems, which your local guide can tell you about. Maybe you eat a good meal here at a typical little restaurant called a “sheebeen”. An experience that puts your / our own life here in prosperous Scandinavia in perspective.

* District Six Museum: Get to know more about life in South Africa during apartheid.

* Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope.

* Boulders Beach: Penguin Colonies.

* Hout Bay: Boat trip to the seal colony

* Cape Peninsula: A world famous botanical area with impressive wildlife. Here you can see baboons, ostriches, bontebok antelope, lots of birds and maybe even whales.

* Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.