Private itinerary · prepared for Valerio and Fabiana

La bellezza della Namibia per Valerio e Fabiana

The far south, the dunes, the Skeleton Coast and Etosha, with your own guide on the road from the first day to the last.

Late July 2027 · dates to follow14 days · 13 nights9 stops≈4,500 kmPrivately guided
Your private journey

14 days, one guide

Fourteen days in a full loop of Namibia: the Fish River Canyon, Lüderitz and Kolmanskop, Sossusvlei, Swakopmund, the Skeleton Coast, Damaraland and three nights in Etosha, with your own English-speaking guide and vehicle from the first day to the last.

Where
Burgsdorf · Fish River Canyon · Lüderitz · Sossusvlei · Swakopmund · Cape Cross · Grootberg · Okaukuejo · eastern Etosha
When
Late July 2027, dates to be set with you
How long
14 days, 13 nights; about 4,500 km by road
How you travel
Your own guide in a 4x4 automatic diesel Toyota Fortuner, from collection on Day 1 to Windhoek on Day 14
Prepared for
Valerio and Fabiana · 2 travellers
Status
Draft: details to be confirmed with you
One · The route

The route, stop by stop

One clockwise loop: south to the canyon, west to Lüderitz, north through the dunes and up the Atlantic coast, inland to Damaraland, then Etosha and back to Windhoek. Arrive on Day 1; Day 14 ends in Windhoek.

ETOSHA PAN Windhoek 1Burgsdorf2Fish River Canyon3Lüderitz4Sossusvlei5Swakopmund6Cape Cross7Grootberg8Okaukuejo9Eastern Etosha
Schematic · not to survey accuracyOne loop from Windhoek
Day 1Collection, then to Burgsdorf for an afternoon game drive · south on the B1≈400 km · 5 hrs
Day 2To Fish River Lodge · by Keetmanshoop≈530 km · 7 hrs
Day 3To Lüderitz · by Aus≈375 km · 5 hrs
Day 4Kolmanskop, then to Agama Lodge · by Helmeringhausen≈530 km · 7.5 hrs
Day 5Deadvlei, Big Daddy and Sesriem Canyonin the park
Day 6To Swakopmund · Gaub and Kuiseb passes≈290 km · 4.5 hrs
Day 7Sandwich Harbourno transfer
Day 8Walvis Bay cruise, then to Cape Cross≈160 km · 2 hrs
Day 9Skeleton Coast to Grootberg · Ugab to Springbokwasser≈400 km · 7 hrs
Day 10Desert elephant trackingno transfer
Day 11To Okaukuejo, then an evening at the waterhole · by Kamanjab and Outjo≈355 km · 5 hrs
Day 12To Mokuti, then an afternoon drive in the park≈140 km
Day 13Etosha, at your own pacein the park
Day 14To Windhoek · by Tsumeb and Otjiwarongo≈540 km · 7 hrs

Approximate road times, much of it on gravel. Days 1, 2, 4, 9, 11 and 14 are the long ones; the days between them are spent where you are.

Two · Where you'll stay

9 stops, one vehicle

Nine stops, each chosen for where it stands. Your guide drives every day.

A room at Burgsdorf
Day 1Collected on arrival · about 400 km, 5 hours
Burgsdorf Guest Farm · south of Windhoek

Rhino and cheetah on the farm

1 night · Large Comfort room at the waterhole · dinner, bed and breakfast

Dinner, bed & breakfastRhino and cheetahRoom at the waterhole

Your guide meets you on arrival with the vehicle, and you head south on the B1 the same day. Burgsdorf is a guest farm with its own waterhole, and the Large Comfort rooms are at the waterhole.

The farm is a rhino conservation project, and it has fostered cheetahs over the years. Two tame cheetahs live here now, so you will see both rhino and cheetah. The cheetahs spend some hours of the day in a safe enclosure, so that they and the rhino do not meet; the rest of the time they are often let out into the field to wander, and they come back by themselves.

Your days here
  • Day 1Collected by your guide and south on the B1 to the farm. An afternoon game drive across the farm's 50,000-hectare camp, which may also give you some good birding, then a buffet dinner at the farmhouse.
  • Day 2After breakfast, on to the canyon.
Included
  • One night, dinner and breakfast
  • An afternoon game drive on Day 1
  • Collection by your guide on arrival
A room at Fish River Lodge
Day 2By road · about 530 km, 7 hours
Fish River Lodge · the Fish River Canyon

On the edge of the canyon

1 night · Double room · dinner, bed and breakfast

Dinner, bed & breakfastSundowner driveOn the western rim

The Fish River Canyon runs for some 160 km and in places drops more than 500 metres to the river. Fish River Lodge stands on its western rim.

Your days here
  • Day 2After breakfast at Burgsdorf, south by Keetmanshoop to the lodge. The lodge's sundowner drive, then dinner.
  • Day 3Breakfast, then west for the coast.
Included
  • One night, dinner and breakfast
  • The sundowner drive
Lüderitz Nest Hotel
Day 3By road · about 375 km, 5 hours
Lüderitz Nest Hotel · Lüderitz

The diamond coast, and a ghost town

1 night · Comfort room · bed and breakfast, with a three-course dinner

Dinner, bed & breakfastKolmanskopOn the rocks by the sea

West through Aus and across the southern Namib to Lüderitz, a small harbour town in the wind. The Nest stands on the rocks at the water's edge.

Dinner is three courses at the hotel restaurant.

Your days here
  • Day 3In the afternoon your guide drives you out along the peninsula to Diaz Point, where Bartolomeu Dias raised a stone cross in 1488; a replica stands there today.
  • Day 4Kolmanskop when the gates open at 08:00: a diamond town founded in 1908 and left to the sand. Entry includes the scheduled guided tour. Then north for the dunes.
Optional · through us

Kolmanskop photographer's permit — sunrise-to-sunset access to Kolmanskop for amateur photographers (no night photography).

€26 per person — added only if you choose it

Included
  • One night, breakfast and a three-course dinner
  • Diaz Point and the peninsula with your guide
  • Kolmanskop entry and guided tour
A room at Agama
Days 4–5By road · about 530 km, 7½ hours · long day
Agama Lodge · Sossusvlei

Deadvlei at first light

2 nights · Deluxe chalet · dinner, bed and breakfast

Dinner, bed & breakfastOpen Sky BedDeadvlei and Big Daddy

Agama Lodge stands on the C19 between Solitaire and Sesriem, about 50 km north of the Sesriem gate. You stay in a Deluxe chalet.

Dinner and breakfast are at the lodge. One of your two nights is on Agama's Open Sky Bed: a night under the stars, with sparkling wine and savoury snacks. If you want to go inside, you walk down your own stairs and sleep in your normal bed.

Your days here
  • Day 4A long drive north by Helmeringhausen, much of it on gravel.
  • Day 5Away before dawn to be at the Sesriem gate, about 50 km from the lodge, as it opens at sunrise, then the 60 km road to the end of the valley and the last stretch of deep sand in your 4x4. From there Deadvlei is a walk of about 1.1 km each way over soft sand, with only low dunes to cross, to the white clay pan and its dead camelthorn trees. Big Daddy, the tall dune above it, is there to climb if you want it. Sesriem Canyon on the way back, with a packed lunch from the lodge, then the afternoon at the lodge to recover.
Optional · through us

Sunrise balloon flight over the dunes — on the morning of Day 6, the day you leave. Namib Sky collects you at the Sesriem gate, about 50 km from the lodge, an hour before sunrise, so it is a very early start. Done by 11:00, then on to Swakopmund.

€574 per person — added only if you choose it

Included
  • Two nights, dinner and breakfast
  • One night on the Open Sky Bed, with sparkling wine and savoury snacks
  • A packed lunch on Day 5
  • The dune day with your guide
  • Park fees
A room at The Delight
Days 6–7By road · about 290 km, 4½ hours
The Delight · Swakopmund

Flamingos, fog and the Atlantic

2 nights · Double room · bed and breakfast

Bed & breakfastSandwich HarbourThe marine cruise

North by Solitaire and over the Gaub and Kuiseb passes to Swakopmund. The Delight is in the centre of town.

Breakfast is at the hotel. For dinner, tell your guide which restaurant you would like and he books the table.

Your days here
  • Day 6On to Swakopmund.
  • Day 7Sandwich Harbour in the morning with your guide: the 4x4 route south of Walvis Bay through a Ramsar wetland alive with flamingos, to where the dunes run straight down into the Atlantic. The afternoon is yours to explore Swakopmund.
  • Day 8A morning cruise on Walvis Bay with Amazing Five Tours: Cape fur seals and dolphins, and whale sightings often occur in the area. Then north to Cape Cross.
Days 7 and 8 · Why the morningsSandwich Harbour is timed to the tide and is best in the morning, and so is the cruise: the wind picks up towards the evening.
Optional · through us

Scenic flight over the Skeleton Coast — about two and a quarter hours from Swakopmund over the Spitzkoppe, the Brandberg, the Ugab River valley, the Skeleton Coast Park with Cape Cross, and the Zeila shipwreck, weather permitting.

€857 per person — with the two of you sharing the aircraft; added only if you choose it

Included
  • Two nights, breakfast
  • Sandwich Harbour with your guide
  • The morning marine cruise from Walvis Bay

Lunch and dinner in Swakopmund are your own; your guide books the table.

A sea-facing room
Day 8By road · about 160 km, 2 hours
Cape Cross Lodge · the Skeleton Coast

Seals, wrecks and the open coast

1 night · Semi-suite · dinner, bed and breakfast

Dinner, bed & breakfastThe seal colonyFacing the sea

A lodge on the beach at Cape Cross, 4 km from one of the largest Cape fur seal breeding colonies on this coast, at the place where the Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão raised a stone cross in 1486; a replica stands there today. The rooms face the sea, each with a balcony or patio.

Your days here
  • Day 8Your guide takes you into the seal reserve in the late afternoon, before it closes at 17:00.
  • Day 9After breakfast, north on the C34 into the Skeleton Coast Park at the Ugab gate and up the coast to the shipwrecks. You leave the coast at Springbokwasser and turn inland to Grootberg.
Day 9 · The long coastal dayAbout 400 km, most of it on gravel or salt road. You cross the park on a transit permit: in at the Ugab gate by early afternoon and out at Springbokwasser the same day, so you leave Cape Cross after breakfast. There is no food or fuel on the transit route. Cape Cross Lodge makes lunch packs on pre-order; if you would like them, your guide pre-orders them for you, for your own account.
Included
  • One night, dinner and breakfast
  • The seal reserve, with its permits
  • Skeleton Coast Park transit
The pool on the rim
Days 9–10By road · about 400 km, 7 hours
Grootberg Lodge · Damaraland

On the rim of the plateau

2 nights · Double room · dinner, bed and breakfast

Dinner, bed & breakfastDesert elephant trackingCommunity-owned

Stone chalets on the edge of the Grootberg plateau, owned by the ǂKhoadi-//Hôas conservancy, looking down over the Klip River valley. This is open, unfenced country: desert-adapted elephant and black rhino range across it.

Your days here
  • Day 9From the coast to the lodge.
  • Day 10Half a day tracking the desert-adapted elephants in the conservancy with a guide and tracker: out early in the morning, with a picnic lunch in the field, back at the lodge around 15:00.
Included
  • Two nights, dinner and breakfast
  • Desert elephant tracking, with a picnic lunch
  • A packed lunch for the drive on Day 11
A room at Okaukuejo
Day 11By road · about 355 km, 5 hours · early start
Okaukuejo · Etosha National Park

A night at the waterhole

1 night · Waterhole chalet · bed and breakfast

Bed & breakfastThe floodlit waterholeInside Etosha

Okaukuejo is the oldest rest camp inside Etosha, and its waterhole is floodlit through the night. Black rhino often come down to drink after dark, and the waterhole chalets look straight onto it.

Etosha has wild cheetah. On your drives and at the waterholes, your guide focuses on looking for them and knows where they are most likely to be found. Etosha also has beautiful birdlife, which you experience alongside the wildlife.

Your days here
  • Day 11Away early by Kamanjab and Outjo, through the Andersson Gate, with a packed lunch from Grootberg for the drive. The rest of the day is yours to rest, then the evening at the waterhole, watching for animals and birds. If you would like to go out on a drive, ask your guide and he takes you.
Included
  • One night, breakfast
  • Your guide on hand if you want a drive
  • Etosha park fees

Dinner at Okaukuejo is at the camp restaurant, at your own expense.

A room at Mokuti
Days 12–13From Okaukuejo
Mokuti Etosha · eastern Etosha

The eastern gate, and the park at your pace

2 nights · Luxury room · dinner, bed and breakfast

Dinner, bed & breakfastLuxury roomAt the Von Lindequist Gate

Mokuti Etosha is next to the Von Lindequist Gate on the eastern side of Etosha. You stay in a Luxury room.

Your days here
  • Day 12Out to Mokuti and check in. An afternoon drive in the park with your guide, then back for dinner.
  • Day 13A flexible day. Tell your guide how long you would like to spend in the park, and when to go in and come out. You can spend it searching for rhino and cheetah.
  • Day 14After breakfast, south by Tsumeb and Otjiwarongo to Windhoek, about 540 km and seven hours.
Included
  • Two nights, dinner and breakfast
  • An afternoon drive in Etosha with your guide on Day 12
  • Time in the park with your guide on Day 13, as you choose
  • Etosha park fees
Three · What it comes to

One price, one invoice

One price, split two ways so you can see where it goes. Both figures are for the two of you combined, shown in euros as a guide, and everything marked as included sits inside them.

Where you sleep and eat
€6,526

Thirteen nights in a double room, on the meal basis shown at each stop: breakfast every morning, dinner everywhere except Swakopmund and Okaukuejo, packed lunches on Days 5 and 11, and the picnic lunch on the elephant tracking on Day 10.

Your guide, vehicle and the days
€8,360

Your guide and 4x4 for fourteen days with fuel, every activity marked as included, and every park, reserve and permit fee.

Your guide's own rooms and meals are inside this figure.

≈ €14,886 for two travellers
≈ €7,443Per person
N$278,075The price, for two
14 days13 nights

One invoice, and nothing to pay on the road apart from the meals marked as your own and anything you add along the way.

Euro figures are indicativeThe price is set in Namibian dollars: N$278,075 for the two of you. The euro figures are that price at €1 = N$18.68, the rate on 8 October 2026, and will move with the exchange rate. We confirm the euro amount when we finalise your itinerary.

Four · Why we built it this way

The days, and the rooms

The route follows what you asked for, in the order the country gives it: the canyon and Kolmanskop in the south, Deadvlei at first light, a morning on the water at Walvis Bay, the Skeleton Coast and the seals at Cape Cross, desert elephants in open Damaraland, and Etosha, where the dry season draws the animals to the water. Each room is chosen for where it stands: on the canyon rim, on the rocks at Lüderitz, between Solitaire and Sesriem, facing the sea at Cape Cross, on the Grootberg rim and at Okaukuejo's waterhole.

Five · What is included

Everything above, in one list

Everything marked as included in this itinerary is inside the price. This is that list in full, so there is nothing to work out from the pages above.

Where you sleep

  • Thirteen nights in a double room for the two of you
  • Burgsdorf · Fish River Lodge · Lüderitz Nest · Agama Lodge · The Delight · Cape Cross Lodge · Grootberg Lodge · Okaukuejo · Mokuti Etosha

What you eat

  • Breakfast every morning
  • Dinner every night except in Swakopmund and at Okaukuejo
  • Packed lunches on Days 5 and 11
  • A picnic lunch on the elephant tracking, Day 10
  • One night on Agama's Open Sky Bed

Your guide and vehicle

  • Your own English-speaking guide from Day 1 to Day 14
  • A 4x4 Toyota Fortuner, automatic diesel, with fuel: the two of you and your guide, with room for luggage and camera gear
  • Collection by your guide on arrival
  • Your guide's rooms and meals

What you do

  • An afternoon game drive at Burgsdorf
  • The sundowner drive at Fish River Lodge
  • Diaz Point and Kolmanskop
  • Deadvlei, Big Daddy, Sossusvlei and Sesriem Canyon
  • Sandwich Harbour
  • The morning marine cruise from Walvis Bay
  • The Cape Cross seal reserve and the Skeleton Coast drive
  • Desert elephant tracking at Grootberg
  • Game drives in Etosha with your guide

Fees

  • Park, reserve and permit fees for you, your guide and the vehicle

Bring your passports. The fees are paid, but Namibian park gates require photographic identification from every visitor on the way in and on the way out. That applies at Sesriem on Day 5, Cape Cross on Day 8, the Skeleton Coast on Day 9 and Etosha on Days 11 to 13. Keep them in the vehicle rather than in a case.

Six · Not included

What sits outside it

  • International flights to and from Windhoek
  • Namibian entry requirements and any visa fees
  • Lunch, except the packed lunches on Days 5 and 11 and the picnic lunch on Day 10; dinner in Swakopmund and at Okaukuejo
  • Optional extras: the Kolmanskop photographer's permit, the balloon flight and the scenic flight
  • Drinks, other than those named in this itinerary
  • Travel insurance, personal expenses and gratuities
Seven · The season

Late July, the dry season

Midwinter and the heart of the dry season: clear skies, warm days and cold nights, close to freezing before dawn in the south and in the desert, and cold in Etosha. The animals gather at the waterholes. The coast is cool and often foggy in the mornings. Pack warm layers, a fleece or down jacket, a hat and gloves for the early starts, sun protection, closed walking shoes and binoculars.

Eight · What happens now

What happens now?

This is a draft, made to be changed. Three steps take it from here to booked.

01

You review it

Look at the price, the lodges and the days, and decide on the optional extras.

02

You come back to us

Tell us what works and what does not: a lodge to swap, more or less comfort, a night moved, or an activity added. We rework it until it is right, then finalise the itinerary.

03

A 50% deposit confirms it

With the final itinerary we give you a due date for a 50% deposit. The deposit confirms the entire booking and is non-refundable. Late July is peak season in Namibia and the waterhole chalets at Okaukuejo are few, so the earlier it is in, the more of this exact trip we can hold.

Subject to availability

Every property is subject to availability until your deposit is in. If one cannot be secured we replace it with one of the same standard and ask you first, and if the replacement costs more, we carry the difference.

Details to be confirmed Tell us what to change

We want this trip to be exactly right for the two of you. Tell us plainly what to change or swap out, whether a lodge, the pace or an activity, and we will rework it.

Deposit · 50%€7,443

Due by the date we give you; confirms the booking; non-refundable

Before you travel€7,443

The balance, one month before you travel

On the roadNothing

Everything marked as included is already paid for

Why is it non-refundable? The deposit is what confirms every booking: the lodges, your vehicle and guide, and each excursion. As soon as we receive it, it is paid out to them. If the worst happens, we contact each supplier and ask for a refund, and whatever we recover, we send back to you. We cannot guarantee an amount: each supplier has its own terms, and some refund nothing at all.

Want something added, before you leave or on the road? Say the word and we book it.

Your first and last days The first and last days may change depending on your flight times. We confirm them with you once you accept this itinerary. With a morning flight, your guide collects you at the airport and the trip starts straight away. If you land later in the day, we can book you a night in Windhoek and the trip starts the next day. A night in Windhoek at the end of the trip can be arranged on request too.

Draft · details to be confirmed

Tell us, and we shape it

Reply to our email with your changes. We come back to you ourselves.

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Prepared for you, and only you

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