Namibia

This trip also included Botswana and Zambia ending in Zimbabwe and was a Backroads trip that exceeded expectations.  The trip included incredible hikes, bikes, river rides, Safaris, Bungee jumping and Helicopter Rides and photo below of biking

Our team leaders were Eli and Eliav and their photo below. 

We started in Windhoek and stayed in the Hilton hotel with was awesome and then we flew by private plane to the Sossusvlei Desert lodge in the desert of Namibia and the lodge was just incredible and then from the there we flew by private small plane to Damaraland staying in the incredible Mown Mountain Camp. Again we hiked to petrified sand dunes, Bushman’s cAve, the big Sand dunes and biked through incredible terrain. Ok details start with Windhoek 

Windhoek below:

In Windhoek we stayed in the Grand Hilton Hotel and it was perfect as we visited: The Independence Memorial Museum, the National Art Gallery, Walked around the zoo and Christuskirche a historic church going back to the early 1900’s and phots below starting with our hotel 

From Windhoek we traveled by private plane to the deserts of Namibia Sossusvlei staying at the incredible &Beyond Sossusvlei Desert lodge photos below 

Sossusvlei below staying in the & Beyond Sossusvlei Lodge below and we biked and hiked here 

Our own pool for each room

&Beyond Sossusvlei Desert lodge above and activities below and we stayed where for 2 nights and it exceeded our expectations and phots of the lodged followed by hiking and biking photos, We hiked Bushman’s Cave, Petrified Dunes, Deadvlei Eagle and the  big daddy dune and photos below 

The Bushman’s Cave was 3/4 the way up the mountain in the background below

more hiking  shots below in the red sand 

Nice Cocktail hour below

And hiking petrified Dune loop below

Some Biking shots below 

The next day we hiked a few and one was Bid Daddy a huge Sand Dune and photos below 

From here flew by private small plane to Damaraland and we stayed in the wonderful Mowani Mountain Camp and photos below  

Darmaland below 

Our hotel the Mown Mountain Camp was awesome and we had fires at night drinking cocktails and our hotel was built into the rock boulders and it was awesome and photos below 

 

Nice pool outside our room = awesome below 

we went on incredible hikes and a little rocky and steep at times and photos below 

we went on an Elephant Game drive and Zebra hikes and photos of our game Safari below 

After 2 nights here we flew to Botswana so see tab about Botswana