14 Day Victoria Falls to Windhoek Tour 3-4 Star Accommodation

The tour begins with a transfer from Victoria Falls Airport, home to one of Africa’s most awe-inspiring natural wonders.

Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, more famously known as Victoria Falls, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Park spreads over 66 kilometres from the Songwe.

Spend the afternoon and the next day exploring at your own pace, browsing vibrant local markets, or indulging in plenty of optional activities available including elephant-back safaris, picturesque microlight/helicopter flights, white water rafting or bungee jumping from a spectacular height of 111 metres. A visit to the Falls will be at your own expense, as well as dinner this evening.

Entering Botswana, we spend the night along the scenic Chobe River, renowned for its stunning landscapes, breathtaking sunsets, and rich diversity of wildlife and birdlife. Enjoy a morning 4×4 game drive and a sunset river cruise, offering unforgettable opportunities to experience the area’s natural beauty.

After leaving the Delta, we return to Namibia. Overlooking the Okavango River and Angola, we spend the night in the Caprivi Strip amongst lush vegetation.

The Okavango River is the fourth longest river network in southern Africa, flowing south-eastward for about 1,600 kilometres. It starts in Angola, where it is called the Cubango River. Further south it creates part of the border that divides Angola and Namibia, and then runs into Botswana, emptying into the Moremi Game Reserve.

We continue on to Etosha National Park where we embark on our first game drive and unwind by the floodlit waterhole in the night. This salt pan is so large that it can be seen from space! An abundance of wildlife resides in this area, especially around the waterholes.

In 1907, when Namibia was referred to as ‘Southwest Africa’, the Park’s initial 100,000 square kilometres made it the world’s biggest game reserve. The Park is one of the most crucial reserves and game havens in Africa and is home to countless wildlife including the likes of blue wildebeest, springbok, zebra, kudu, giraffe, cheetah, leopard, lion and elephant.

We embark on an exhilarating full-day game drive in open 4×4 vehicles, setting out from our lodge conveniently located near the park entrance. This immersive experience allows for extended exploration of the park’s diverse ecosystems and wildlife.

We venture into the park for our last morning game drive aboard the truck, immersing ourselves in its natural beauty. From there, we depart and make our way through the Damaraland area. The name ‘Damaraland’ was given to the north-central portion of Namibia and inhabited by the Damara people, an ethnic group that forms 8.5% of the population in Namibia. The area is an enormous and jagged landscape with mountain ranges interrupted by broad gravel plains which transform into sandy, vegetated riverbeds and hot, arid valleys. Our lodge is located on a mountain summit that gives incredible vistas of the encircling regions. Spend your afternoon basking in the glory of our surroundings or just unwind next to the pool.

We travel through some sandy, hot and dry valleys to reach Swakopmund in the afternoon, a charming coastal town with dominant German influence and with majority of its population German-speaking. Established in 1892 as the primary harbour for German South-West Africa, Swakopmund is German for ‘mout of the swakop’ as it is located at the Swakop River mouth. Our afternoon is spent exploring this beautiful town or participating in the myriads of optional activities available here, such as dolphin cruises or scenic flights over the enormous Namib Desert.

Our travels carry us through changing surroundings to our lodging situated on the Namib Desert edge, thought by plenty of geologists to be one of the oldest deserts in the world. The next morning is an early start that takes us 55 kilometres through the dune belt whilst the sun rises above us. The spectacular transforming colours make for incredible photographic opportunities. We embark on a 5 kilometre trek to Sossusvlei and Deadvlei. The name Deadvlei is of mixed origins and basically means ‘dead end marsh’.

Sossusvlei gained this name due to the fact that it is a drainage basin without outflows for the ephemeral Tsauchab River. The pan holds rainwater to create a lake and because of the mass amounts of clay in the ground, water is retained for ages at a time.

In the afternoon we embark on a brief trek through the Sesriem Canyon, which is a natural canyon formed by the Tsauchab River in the local sedimentary rock, around a kilometre long and up to 30 metres in depth. A section of the canyon always holds water, which various animals make use of.

During the afternoon in Windhoek, you can explore the Namibian capital. Your tour comes to an end after breakfast on Day 14. Should you wish to extend your stay in Windhoek, please speak to your travel consultant.