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Male avatar icon Stephen Stead Germany flag DE       Visited: November 2024 Reviewed: Dec 3, 2024

Email Stephen Stead  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Amazing place , landscape just out of this world

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This is a must see destination . Safe , unbeleivable scenery and vibe , great wildlife

Female avatar icon Mariana Bulgaria flag BG       Visited: October 2024 Reviewed: Nov 18, 2024

Email Mariana  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Amazing desert colours, the night sky heavy with stars

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Mighty nature that grabs you and make you feel as small as any grain of the desert sand.
Amazing desert colours and velvet vibe of the sunset touching not only the eyes, but the soul too. The night sky was heavy with stars that seemed to pour down on the Earth.
Gloomy, stormy ocean, cute giraffes and baboons...
Delicious meal, cossy desert camps, attractive people friendly and positive.
Art, crafts and souvenirs you buy from everywhere will keep your memories more live and colourful.
Namibia is in my heart.

Male avatar icon Andrew Reynolds South Africa flag ZA       Visited: September 2024 Reviewed: Nov 5, 2024

Email Andrew Reynolds  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

We experienced a raw, scenic beauty driving through the deserts and wildlife rich regions of Namibia

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From entering Namibia at the Orange River, to The Fish River Canyon, Sossusvlei, Grootberg, Etosha and Kalahari, we enjoyed unique landscape and wildlife experiences. I can highly recommend Namibia as an incredible country and destination.

Female avatar icon Maxie Oosthuysen South Africa flag ZA       Visited: October 2024 Reviewed: Nov 2, 2024

Email Maxie Oosthuysen  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Beauty untold

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My trip to Namibia was absolutely a fantastic experience from the word go. The tour was well planned and we had an excellent, informative guide. We stayed at really wonderful guestfarms and lodges and the food was really great. Namibia is truly beautiful with a lot of contrasts and history. Etosha was a highlight as well as the dunes at Sossusvlei. I will do it again in a heartbeat.

Female avatar icon Tania Portugal flag PT       Visited: October 2024 Reviewed: Oct 26, 2024

Email Tania  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

A beautiful, safe and interesting country with a variety of places to visit and friendly people.

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Namibia is a safe and interesting country with great highlights. The sand dunes, Soussusvlei and the desert offer an unforgetable experience. The people are very friendly and prond to share their culture with turists.

Avatar icon Dawn United States flag US       Visited: September 2024 Reviewed: Oct 16, 2024

Email Dawn

Namibia is beautiful and you will fall in love with the people!

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Best experience was walking with the San people. Explaining their culture and how they live in the bush was incredible! Also visiting the Namib Desert and Sandwhich Harbor was absolutely beautiful.

Female avatar icon Jackie United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: August 2024 Reviewed: Oct 11, 2024

Email Jackie  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Such a diverse range of experiences - from scenery to coast, wildlife, culture and hiking.

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Namibia is a very large country - we only got a taste of everything in our 8 day visit. But there's a wide range of activities and opportunities - towns, national parks and coast. Sossusvlei was an amazing place - we climbed both Dune 45 and Big Daddy. Note, if you're planning to do this, you need to take extra water with you - Big Daddy is an epic climb, but so worth it, for the views and for the enormously fun descent straight down the side into Deadvlei! This dead valley is stunningly beautiful, although that sounds like a contradiction when you consider it's just dead trees in a mudbaked plain - but, truly, you have to see it to understand what an impact it makes. We stayed at the Namib Desert Lodge - one highlight was the sunset safari, culminating in a cliff top bar being set up for us, complete with wide range of alcohol and big platters of beautifully presented nibbles!
We visited Swakopmund, but didn't have time for any of the sea activities - however,
Read more the town itself is well worth a walk around. The architecture is interesting, with the German heritage, and we found a terrific bar - Bar Zonder Naam (the Bar Without a Name) - and also ate at the Blue Grass Restaurant, where the food and atmosphere were equally good. It was just a shame it was foggy and raining, so we didn't get the sea views! We did visit the Crystal Centre - again, well worth it, some stunning displays of a huge range of crystals, all mined in Namibia.
Our final destination was Etosha National Park, where we stayed at the Namutoni Lodge. Such a nice place - a good restaurant, swimming pool, clever design of the accommodation, with palisades around the front and back of each room, so you feel as though you're in a native compound or village. There's also a viewing platform overlooking a watering hole - great for a sunset visit to see the wildlife, while drinking a beer. We went on several safari drives - one memorable moment was when nearly 30 elephants slowly made their way past us, at a watering hole, and lined up in one long row to drink. Lots of zebra, impala, springbok, oryx, wildebeest, kudu, warthogs, some glimpses of leopard and rhino. But, most memorably - lions. Or rather, one lion and his mate, relaxing under a bush.
One small thing to note - most of the public toilets en route require a payment of just 2 or 3 rand. Also at the supermarket and restaurant carparks and petrol stations, it's customary to give 3-5 rand to the parking and fuel attendants. This means you need to change a larger note down to small notes or coins, so you have a kitty.
Obviously, if you have longer to visit, you could see more, or stay longer in one place - we did cover a lot of miles in a short space of time. But it's perfectly do-able to get a really good taste of Namibia in a week, with a night either end to allow for flying in and out of Windhoek.
Overall, we had a really lovely time - Namibia is certainly a great country to visit.
Female avatar icon Juliet Blackburn United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: September 2024 Reviewed: Oct 9, 2024

Email Juliet Blackburn  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Very interesting and varied

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Learnt a lot about deserts. Liked the Skeleton coast (but it was cold!). The safari in Etosha was a highlight. Most of the lodges were good and the food good also.

Male avatar icon Akira Kanamori Japan flag JP       Visited: September 2024 Reviewed: Oct 6, 2024

Email Akira Kanamori  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Totally quiet holidays

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Windhoek is nice city with somewhat Europeanized buildings. So sunny and dry. We spent 3 nights at the desert lodge watching quiet desert and strange looking trees. This is probably a bit different destination in Africa for tourists with distinct tastes.

Male avatar icon Jan Italy flag IT       Visited: August 2024 Reviewed: Sep 4, 2024

Email Jan  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

It has been a really amazing trip.

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Everything has been amazing! The country is un-contaminated and beautiful. People are very friendly. We, me and my 3 daugthers have been driving 3300 km from which 2100 on unpaved roads in 15 days. If you are an experienced driver and you do not have any rpoblem to drive 4 or 5 hours at the time, it is recommended to drive on your own. We did Kalahari, Sossusvlei, Swakopmund, Brandberg, Etosha South, Etosha East, Cheetah view logde Waterberg region, Okonjima nature reserve, Windhoek. We stayed for 14 nights in Namibia and this is the minimum you need. The best lodges we stayed at were Sossusvlei logdes, Mokuti (amazing) Okonjima plains camp. Food is excellent if you are not a vegetarian.
Our trip was organised by Five Stars Tours and Safaris, by Mandy. You do no have to look any further!!! Everthing was perfect and there were many positive surprises, like kayaking witht the seals Furthermore Mandy will prepare you a very competive offfer without making any compromise on the best
Read more locations and lodges available. My opinion is that in four people we have safed at least € 3.000 to € 4.000, compared with other big travel organisations, from which I received quotations. The car rental company was Namib's Roos Car Rental. We had the best possible car Toyota 4x4 Hilux DC 2.4 TD. (do not safe money on the car and insurances!) Also the guys were amazing and should be definitly recommended. Full explanation about the car, gas stations, tyre pressure change etc. One last remark. Namibia is very poor. You can drive tens of km without meeting anybody, just some men or kids with goats. When you stop to ask them if they need something, they just ask for water!!! (not for water) Please bring a lot of bottles of water and distribute them when you meet these poor people in the desert!!