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Living Dunes Experience from Swakopmund
- 3h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
This living desert tour is a extraordinary exploration of the coastal dune belt just outside Swakopmund. To the untrained eye the dunes are just a pile of sand, however your skilled and experienced guides will introduce you to a wealth of life. Track Palmato Geckos, sand-diving lizards, the famous fog-basking tok-tokkie beetle, sidewinder snakes, spiders, scorpions, and chameleons. This 3-hour exploration will be rounded out with a short dune drive.
Inclusions
What's included
- Professional guide
- Bottled water
- National Park fees
- GST (Goods and Services Tax)
- Driver/guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off (no pick up at Airbnb's or private homes)
What's not
- Gratuities
Itinerary
On the outskirts of out beautiful town begins the desert. We will spend the next 3 hours exploring the desert.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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5Great trip worth the money
Wonderful trip we found lots of desert creatures. Our guides were well trained and gave us plenty of information about each one we found. He was also funny which kept us interested.
5Little 5
Very interesting Fantastic Guides with passion Thanks to Johnny and emanuel
5A fascinating desert experience
If you think that looking for little creatures in the desert might be boring, think again!! This was one of the highlights of our Namibia tour. Emanuel, with his vast experience, was able to track tiny lizards, chameleons, snakes and beetles who live under the sand and who are invisible to the rest of us. Bjorn Anderson was a very knowledeable and highly entertaining guide, telling us fascinating stories about these little creatures and about his colourful life. I have only one complaint and that was about the pickup - we were picked up 3/4 hour later than we were told, which led to us wondering whether we would be picked up at all - Charly's you can do better than that!
5Don't miss this trip!
Just back from this tour and it was amazing - very professional with the two driver/guides showing real love for the desert and its creatures. I have some mobility issues so was worried about how much walking there'd be. However you go from site to site in a land rover and then walk short distances with the vehicle always near enough to get back to if you need to sit. The guides obviously love what they do and, despite being ecologists, showed us things we'd have never seen on our own. Snouted lizards, burrowing skink, chameleon, beetles and a snake. They were disappointed not to find the gecko on the first few tries but we stayed a bit longer till they found one. Fantastic trip.
5Excellent
The Living Desert Tour was a great experience. Scout Johnny was perfekt in tracking the little animals in and beyond the sand. Björn has magnificient knowledge about the Namibian nature and a very humorous way of presentig it. We were very impressed by seeing these little animals .
5Love the living dunes
Fantastic opportunity to experience this very special but endangered habitat of unique creatures. Bjorn is both knowledgeable and entertaining and the ability of his partner to find these creature is something to witness!
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- We will meet you at the parking area of Desert Explorers. Our vehicles are easy to recognize with the Charly's Desert Tours logo on the doors.
- Pickup
- Pickup is offered, or you can meet at the starting point.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 10 travellers
- Operated by
- Charly's Desert Tours
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
- A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
How it compares in Swakopmund
- Its from-price is 60% below the median of the 111 experiences we list in Swakopmund.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 5 of 111.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Swakopmund
Swakopmund is a German-founded seaside town on Namibia's Atlantic coast, set between the cold ocean and the dunes of the Namib Desert.
Swakopmund was founded in 1892 as the main port of German South West Africa, and its centre still has half-timbered houses, a lighthouse and colonial buildings such as the Woermann House with its tower. A long jetty reaches into the cold Atlantic, palm-lined avenues run inland, and cafés serve German cake and coffee. The cold Benguela Current brings sea fog to the shore, so mornings are often grey even when the desert beyond is hot.
Top-ranked sights in Swakopmund: Cape Cross, Swakopmund Jetty, Namib-Naukluft National Park.
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