Cultural and Scenery Tour

Safari summary

This tour focuses on some of the ethnic cultural groups in Namibia. We will visit cultural living museums but more importantly we will be more or less in their original environment. We will have the opportunity to learn one or two words on the road while interacting with people going about their normal day to day lives. Some areas like Damaraland and Kaokoland, we will get to see or track wildlife and learn how humans and wildlife coexist in these unfenced open ecosystems. With modernization of human era, we will start with a city tour in Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia, where every ethnic group is represented. This will be an orientation tour in order for us to understand where will be going for the next days. The San/Bushman people who were the earliest inhabitants of Southern Africa. They represent about 2.9 % of the Namibian population. Today they are confined to the northeastern part of Namibia into Botswana. However, we will be visiting their cultural museum at the Erongo Mountains, with rock paintings that suggests that they once lived there. The Bushman guide will take us through the interpretation of these paintings from their understanding not what literature says. The Damara People around Twyfelfontein are in their natural habitat. The Damara people represent 8.5% of the Namibian population. The Damara Living Museum is an attempt to reconstruct the ‚lost culture’ of the Damara. Around this area it is not uncommon to find a herd of elephants and a man herding livestock next to each other. Here, wildlife and humans compete for scarce resources like water in this rather arid area. Let us learn how they coexist by tracking these desert-adapted elephants. This is not in a designated national park, tracking desert-adapted elephants still involves following tracks along ephemeral rivers and asking the local Damara people their last whereabouts. We will visit the Bushman Rock Engravings around Twyfelfontein, an indication that they once lived in this harsh environment. We will visit the OvaHimba people of the northwestern Namibia, the Kaokoland. Our destination is the start of the Kaokoland area which extends all the way north covering an extensive territory of 50 000 square kilometers. Let us learn about their intriguing way of life in their natural habitat.

About this tour

	Tour type	Custom, tailor-made, private
	Main focus	None
	Activity level	Easy activity
	Best months	All months
	Countries	Namibia
	Parks

Fine details

Safari highlights

• Cultural visits—orphanages, markets, schools
• Sightseeing | shopping | markets
• Bushman | tribal visits

What’s included?

• Accommodation
• Airport transfers
• Meals
• Park fees
• Private vehicle and driver

What’s not included?

• Alcoholic beverages
• All drinks
• Hot air balloons
• Internal flights
• International flights
• Laundry
• Premium alcoholic beverages
• Spa treatments
• Tips and gratuities
• Visas