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Sossusvlei Wilderness Camp

21 000 hectare private reserve near Sossusvlei

Rooms: 9

The camp's location in the Namib Desert provides easy access to Sossusvlei, yet also offers privacy and exclusivity. The camp has been built near the top of a mountain, using rock, brick, timber and thatch and provides a comfortable refuge from the desert. There are 9 guest rooms, each with its own private plunge pool. The bedrooms offer comfort and atmosphere with wonderful views onto the desert plains below. The en-suite bathrooms have both hot and cold running water, showers and flush toilets. The main living area is under thatch with an outdoor deck for dinner under the stars. Activities centre round early morning excursions in 4x4 vehicles to the magnificent Sossusvlei dunes and the "vlei" itself. Afternoon nature drives or walking activities allow guests to take in the desert scenery and its unique fauna and flora.

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Kulala Desert Lodge

21 000 hectare private reserve near Sossusvlei

Rooms: 12 + 6

Kulala Desert Lodge lies in the heart of the Namib and offers magnificent views of the famous red dunes of Sossusvlei as well as magnificent mountainous scenery and vast open plains. Twelve thatched & canvas chalets with en suite bathrooms and showers are set on wooden platforms to provide maximum airflow. The main lodge, with décor inspired from Northern Africa, has a lounge, pub, dining area and plunge pool, and offers a wrap-around verandah that overlooks the waterhole and provides a perfect location to view and photograph the desert sunset. Early morning guided game drives to the spectacular dunes are through a private gate on the Tsauchab River. Game drives and walks are also offered on the private reserve with incredible views, desert game and smaller desert fauna and flora.

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Wolwedans Dune Lodge

NamibRand Nature Reserve

Rooms: 10 + 6

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Ongava Lodge

Private reserve bordering on Etosha National Park

Rooms: 10 + 5

Ongava Game Lodge is situated along the southern boundary of Etosha National Park in the privately owned Ongava Game Reserve and is the ideal place from which to base your activities when visiting Etosha. Accommodation is 10 air-conditioned brick, rock and thatch chalets, each with en-suite facilities. Meals are either served in the main dining area under thatch with a view over the camp’s water hole – or on the dining deck under the stars. Activities include game drives in open 4x4 vehicles into the Okaukuejo area of Etosha where Lion, Elephant, Cheetah, Gemsbok, Springbok, and Hartebeest can be seen at many of the water holes in the park. In addition, night drives, hides and walks with armed guides are enjoyed on the private reserve. Ongava has resident White and Black Rhino, giving guests staying at Ongava the opportunity to see both species.

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Damaraland Camp

Damaraland Conservancy

Rooms: 9

Situated on the northern face of the Huab River valley and looking south toward the imposing Brandberg Mountains, Damaraland Camp offers its guests endless vistas. This comfortable and friendly camp offers walks and drives in one of the best wilderness areas in Namibia. Although wildlife is not concentrated, Damaraland Camp is situated where the rare Desert Elephant roams, alongside Gemsbok (Oryx), Springbok, Ostrich and other hardy desert animals. Rare succulent plants somehow manage to eke out an existence in this harsh countryside. Accommodation is in nine comfortable tented rooms, with en-suite facilities including flush toilets and showers with hot/cold running water. The dining room and pub are combined under canvas. A feature of the camp is the unique rock pool. Activities throughout the area are in 4x4 vehicles, on foot and on mountain bikes.

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Skeleton Coast Camp

Skeleton Coast National Park

Rooms: 6

The Skeleton Coast Park is one of our planet’s most inhospitable, but hauntingly beautiful places – it is wild, desolate and uninhabited. It has everything from roaring sand dunes and windswept plains, to towering canyons and saltpans. Access to the camp is only by light aircraft from Windhoek and there is a 4, 5 and 8 day option. Accommodation is in luxury tented rooms and the camp itself is built onto an island in a dry riverbed about 20km inland from the coastline. Each of the 6 tents is large, roomy and has a bathroom en suite. Activities include either full day nature drives or walks with a picnic lunch, returning to camp in the evening, or half day nature drives or walks returning to camp for lunch and venturing out again in the afternoon. Oryx, Springbok, Giraffe, Ostrich, Brown Hyena, Jackal, seals and other smaller mammals can be sighted.

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Serra Cafema Camp

On the Kunene River in the extreme north west of Namibia

Rooms: 6

Serra Cafema Camp is the most remote camp in all of Southern Africa and offers one of the most memorable experiences in Namibia. The camp shares this region with the wonderful and colourful Himba people who are some of the last true nomadic people of Africa. The camp is situated under big shady Albida trees overlooking the Kunene River and comprises six canvas and thatched chalets that are raised off the ground, each with its own en-suite bathroom. Other facilities include a small swimming pool, dining room and pub. During the day, guests spend their time exploring one of the planet's driest deserts. Activities include enjoying the breath-taking landscape scenes with herds of springbok, ostrich and oryx dotted here and there, traversing the sand dunes on 4x4 safaris or on quad-bikes and boating on the Kunene River.

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Etosha National Park

Okaukuejo, Halali & Namutoni Restcamps.

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