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NAMIBIA:
Although Namibia gained independence in 1990 and has been a democratic, politically stable country ever since, it’s still largely off the tourist radar. After you visit, you’ll wonder why! This vast country boasts the world’s oldest desert, largest population of cheetahs, oldest rock paintings, Africa's most photogenic country, eleven ethnic groups, excellent game viewing, and several endemic plants, birds and animals not found anywhere else on earth---like black-faced impalas, Damara dik-diks and desert elephants. English is the official language of this south African country, where people are friendly, game is plentiful, scenery spectacular, and hordes of people are still absent. Come join us on this extraordinary safari before the secret is out...
Itineraries are highly customized--each lodge, tour, and destination has been carefully chosen with photographers in mind. We urge you to compare!
HIGHLIGHTS
- Explore Sossusvlei's desert wonderland, where dunes tinted shades of pale peach to crimson red make perfect backdrops for gnarled Camelthorn trees in the white cracked pans of Deadvlei.
- See petrified elephant tracks, skeletons and an ancient Midden in a sea of sand that extends to the Atlantic Ocean
- Meet the indigenous Topnaars, desert people who depend on the endemic !Nara melons for their survival
- Stay in mix of contemporary guesthouses, hotels, farms and luxurious chalets situated in the desert and on the rim of a grand canyon
- Take aerial shots of shipwrecks along the Forbidden Coast and undulating sand dunes from Swakopmund to Sossusvlei on a scenic flight
- Stay in the only lodge located in the gated Namib-Naukluft Park, allowing us, as guests, the exclusive opportunity to photograph the spectacular sculpted crimson-orange dunes from sunrise to sunset
- Photograph geckos, scorpions, lizards, beetles, chameleons, dancing spiders and side-winder snakes in the yellow dunes of the Namib Desert, where our guide has uncanny success finding these creatures
- Enter Sperrgebiet's Forbidden Zone with a special all day permit and wander through the eerie ghost town of Kolmanshkop where once-magnificent mansions are disappearing under shifting sands
- Go on game viewing drives searching for giraffe, zebra, springbok, oryx and wildebeest in the grassy crimson dunes of the Kalahari desert
- Photograph cheetahs and leopard at a private game farm
- Go on an all day excursion to the bottom of Fish River Canyon (2nd deepest in the world) to explore pictoglyphs, Stone Age tools, rock pools and desert adapted plants and animals along the river
- See strange quiver trees, pictoglyphs and bizarre balancing rocks
- Benefit from hands on demonstrations in the field--reflectors, flash and diffusers--and informal sessions and illustrations of how to enhance digital images in Photoshop
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