Namibia is a huge country with a small population and manifold attractions of landscape and wildlife. With a base of Kalahari sand stretching all the way up through the country, it helps to be a sand lover when travelling in Namibia. One of the greatest sights in the world are the tallest sand dunes, rising in crests and waves up to 300 metres high. These are found in the Namib Desert, where the sand changes colour from burnt orange to brooding purple as the sun kisses, then misses them. This is said to be due to light playing on zillions of tiny fragments of precious gems ground down into the sand. Let us take you there to witness this unique natural feature in a landscape unlike anything you have ever experienced.

Of the precious stones found in Namibia, diamonds are the most treasured. In 1908 a line inspector on the Luderitz railway found the first of many diamonds, which upon close inspection were found to be littering the ground at Kolmanskop. When the diamonds dried up, so did this little town and the sand is slowly but surely engulfing what was once a lively boom town, where dancing girls were paid in uncut diamonds.

Nearby Luderitz kept the sand at bay and was the first German settlement in South West Africa. Its colonial history is seen through elegant buildings like Art Deco Goerke House. Swakopmund is Namibia’s most visited Germanic seaside town and is often called ‘Little Bavaria’ for its charming, if somewhat toy-town, ornate Bavarian architecture.

South of Swakopmund is Walvis Bay. The best way to appreciate the working harbour and amazing variety of sealife in it, is on a boat tour. Here you will be amazed at the seals that jump onto the boat in the hope of being fed and gulls and pelicans that cruise at head height waiting for fish to be thrown. Then there are the dolphins that bough ride and look up and wink at you!

North of Swakopmund are thousands of Cape Fur Seals at the Cape Cross Seal Colony. The odour can be overwhelming but the sight of so many breeding, fighting and sleeping seals is a unique wildlife one-off. 

There are plenty of animals in Nambia in such areas as Etosha National Park, with its huge glistening salt pans. While Damaraland has the famed desert elephants, once filmed riding down the dunes and seeming to be enjoying the ride.

Namibia has an abundance of natural wonders including the Fish River Canyon, so huge your eyes cannot cope with the full view all at once. Hikers have to show a current medical certificate to begin the 5-day, 86 kilometre walk in the belly of the ravine all the way to Ais Ais hot springs, where blistered feet are soothed in the natural hot waters. 

 Namibia has so much to see but the distances are great, that’s why we fly you in and out so you can really appreciate the finer points and can avoid getting too much of that sand into your luggage.

"The diverse habitats accommodate the black-maned Kalahari lion, water buffalo, kudu and ostrich amongst many native bird species."

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