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This camping safari travels the classic route through Namibia, encompassing the key highlights. You will be led by a knowledgeable and professional guide, staying in a combination of good lodges and comfortable guesthouses, with adventurous nights spent under canvas at luxury mobile camps where each tent has comfortable beds and is en suite.
Guide
The Classic Namibia Experience is led by a professional guide. Our guides are very important to us: they are picked carefully and trained well. All speak good English and all are Namibians. Whilst on safari with them you will be able to learn a lot about Namibia and what you see there - including much about the flora, fauna and local cultures. They will be able to identify all of the animals, many of the birds, and some of the plants that you see.
Camp staff
A safari crew with 2-4 camp staff and a camp chef travel in a separate vehicle and will erect your luxury mobile camp ready for your arrival whilst you take a more exploratory route with your guide.
Luxury mobile camps
Whilst at a mobile camp you will stay in twin-bedded, spacious walk-in safari tents. The stretcher beds are covered with thick mattresses, linen, duvets, pillows and blankets. Each tent also includes a canvas luggage rack, a safari trunk and bedside tables with small reading lamps.
The bucket shower and flush toilet en suite bathrooms, which are roofed, are permanently attached to the tents. Each bathroom also includes a hand basin, some complimentary toiletries and towels.
Some of Namibia's more remote campsites are not well lit; while your camp's equipment includes at least one gas lamp, this is turned off once everyone has settled for the night, so it's important that you bring a good torch with you. You'll find this useful when walking to and from your tent.
Vehicles
The Classic Namibia Experience usually uses a Toyota Quantum with air-conditioning, sliding windows and a pop-top roof.
Each vehicle is fitted with an inverter and a strip of plugs allowing travellers the opportunity to charge batteries whilst on safari using the standard two-pin charger that is usually supplied when you buy electrical equipment. If you do not have a two-pin charger, we recommend you purchase and adaptor. Namibia uses plugs with 3 large round pins - the same plug that is used in South Africa. It is relatively easy to find an adaptor for use in South Africa which would also work in Namibia.
The plugs on the vehicles are only to be used to recharge necessary items such as camera batteries; they are not to be used for charging electric toothbrushes or mobile phones.
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