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- Return flights from the UK to Namibia
- 11-day camping safari around Namibia
- 16-day volunteer project with the Rhino Rangers
- 26 breakfasts, 22 lunches, 22 dinners
- Booking fees
- Services of your own travel advisor
- Travel insurance (but we can help you with that)
- Vaccinations (ask us about our discount with Nomad Travel)
- Meals (unless otherwise specified)
- Optional activities
Suggested Itinerary: Namibia Volunteer and Explore
Home - Windhoek - Namib Desert Reserve - Sossuvlei - Swakopmund - Brandberg - Damaraland - Etosha National Park - Windhoek - Zannier Reserve - Windhoek - Home
This itinerary is just a suggestion and can be customised to suit your unique travel plans. Make it longer, make it shorter. Add in the things you want to do. Get in touch with our travel experts to turn this itinerary into your dream Namibia gap year.
Windhoek Welcome to Namibia
Welcome to Windhoek and the start of your incredible gap year adventure in Namibia!
At 2pm there's a short tour briefing with the chance to meet the people you'll be travelling with for the next 11 days on this camping safari.
Afterwards, set off to explore Windhoek and view the attractions of the city before ending the day enjoying the warm hospitality at the infamous Joe's Beerhouse restaurant.
The Namib Desert Desert walks and dunes
For the next three days you'll be exploring the spectacular Namib Desert and spending the nights in different desert camps.
The Namib Desert is home to a variety of desert adapted fauna and flora, and many animal species, including hyena, cheetah, oryx and zebra, to name just a few! Enjoy desert drives during the day and night to spot some of these creatures, and join guided ecology walks to better understand the area.
You'll also spend a day crossing the endless desert plains to the Sesriem Canyon and the awesome red Sossusvlei dunes - reputedly the highest in the world. Travelling into the heart of the dunes, climb these spectacular mountains of sand before taking a 4x4 to Deadvlei - a clay pan characterized by dark dead camel thorn trees against the white pan floor.
Swakopmund to Damaraland Coastal Wonders and Ancient Gems
Crossing through Kuiseb Canyon, and the Namib-Naukluft National Park, continue to the port town of Walvis Bay, and on to Swakopmund. The German influence still lingers here from the late 1800s and there will be time to explore this holiday town and its surrounds thoroughly. Swakopmund offers visitors a variety of adventure activities, including quad biking, sand boarding and skydiving.
Continue north up the harsh Skeleton Coast - a barren stretch of coastline along the Atlantic Ocean with scattered ship wrecks littering the beaches. Visit Cape Cross, a spectacular breeding ground for Cape fur Seals where more than a 100,000 seals take refuge.
Venture back inland, travelling through the vast desert to the iconic Brandberg Mountain - the highest mountain in Namibia. Here you'll view a canvas of ancient rock art.
Your trip continues to breathtaking Damaraland, home of the Damara people. Along the way you'll visit the Organ Pipes - formed about 150 million year ago, and the ancient rock engravings at Twyfelfontein.
Etosha National Park Wildlife galore
The final stop of your camping safari is the renowned Etosha National Park. Enjoy two days exploring the park with extensive game drives visiting little water holes where dozens of animals congregate, including elephant, giraffe, zebra and antelope. Cameras at the ready!
Then it's time to return to Windhoek and say goodbye to your safari companions as you prepare to start the next part of your gap year program.
Zannier Reserve Join the Rhino Rangers
For the next two weeks you'll be joining the fight to protect one of the world's most endangered species - the rhino. You'll be learning first-hand from the valiant anti-poaching unit (APU) whilst spending time with the intrepid men who have dedicated their lives to guarding the 7,600-hectare Zannier Reserve.
This reserve is a conservation mecca, but simultaneously a magnet for potential poachers. Get to grips with the challenges of living and surviving in the bush, and join the APU on their patrols. During your time on the Rhino Rangers project you'll master firearm skills, navigation, tracking techniques and the science of poaching itself – to defeat poaching, you need to first understand it.
This is an immersive and challenging experience, not for the faint-hearted! But there will be ample opportunity to bond with your fellow fearless volunteers. As a volunteer, activities will include:
- Morning and evening patrol of the rhinos in the bush
- Physical labour such as building new observation sites
- Presentations on anti-poaching, navigation and bush skills done at operation control centre
- Full day patrol in different sectors
- Sleep outs in the bush in specially created observation positions
It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you won't forget.
After your two weeks is over, head back to Windhoek for your included return flight home to the UK.
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