Cruise liner special: Swakopmund and Namib Desert Highlight Tour

Overview

Available languages

German

English

7 hours 30 minutes

Mobile ticket

This is a unique tour in that it includes all the highlights this area has to offer in one tour. You will have gathered knowledge on the frail ecology, harsh geology and hard lived history of this desert Landscape. Everything it offers is unique to this area only. We have a drink and light lunch at a 360 degree lookout point. Its an up market tour in Airconditioned vehicles and limited participants, but very popular for Cruise liner Guests.

The absolute quietness, the vast unpopulated landscapes, the light Desert Breeze, the evidence of lava flow and lack of water gives light to how inhospitable this area is. Would love to showcase this area to you.

Additional Info

Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap

Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries

Not recommended for pregnant travelers

Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health

Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

We need at least two travelers to start the Tour. Should we not start the tour for whatever reason we offer an alternative or full refund

Should the ship Dock at another time, other than our start time we will reschedule our Start times to meet you at the dock

we however need enough time to complete the tour

We meet our clients with a Name Board please look out for your name

We also have a tear drop Flag so we stand out in the crowd.

Please what's app us for any assistance.

German speaking guides are very scarce. These will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

Please note due to the scarcity of German guides we cannot guarantee a German speaking guide, in peak season or when a cruise liner is in the Harbour and 2000guests disembark.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What‘s Included

Lunch

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

The Langholm Hotel

18-20 JJ Cleverly Street, Lagoon Walvis Bay Namibia

Hotel Indongo Walvis Bay

Corner of Sam Nujoma Avenue & 10th Road Walvis Bay Namibia

What To Expect

Swakopmund Jetty

Our tour takes us past Bird island , the only manmade Guano Island along the coast, ( 10 minutes)to the Swakopmund Jetty.( 30 minutes) We learn about the interesting fact about the struggles to build the Mole( 15 Minutes) and the Jetty then we see some old German colonial buildings ( 20 minutes)and onto Martin Luther the Steam tractor ( 15 minutes) that was tried to be used to tow wagons in the years of the Rinderpest and onto the Namib desert gravel plains to Goanikontes. ( 1 hour) we spend a lot of time driving to the next site as they are far apart

2 hours • Admission Not Applicable

Goanikontes

On our way to Goanikontes a very important land mark and watering hole in yesteryear we pass by the Lichen fields ,( 30 minutes) We look for the tiny plants only millimeters big , covering the desert , which is a combination of an algae and a mushroom, growing in a small strip in the desert, adapted to living off the Fog that blows in. We learn about some Desert plants and how they have evolved to live of the moisture of the fog. Then we drive along the gravel plains to the Moonlandscape.

1 hour • Admission Not Applicable

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