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Cruise liner Special: Swakopmund and Namib Desert Highlights

By Desert Dunes and Dust Tours
8 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$274 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 7h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

This is a coastal highlight tour, touching all the interesting sites in the Desert area in one tour. You get to experience this beautiful little Sea resort and all the unique features in the Namib Desert, as well as learning about the harsh History and Geology of this area.
This is a Walvis Bay Tour going to Swakopmund and back to Walvis Bay.
This tour is not a private tour. If you wish to have a private tour, you will be required to pay for the extra seats in the car.

Activity location

  • Swakopmund Jetty
    • Swakopmund, Namibia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Walvis Bay Port
    • Unnamed Road
    • Walvis Bay, Erongo Region, Namibia

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Cruise liner Special: Swakopmund and Namib Desert Highlights
  • Activity duration is 7 hours and 30 minutes7h 30m
    7h 30m
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 8:30 am
Price details
AU$274.25 x 1 AdultAU$274.25
Total
Price is AU$274.25

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedBottled water, Cola , Juice, Beer and cider
  • What's includedWhat's includedBrunch

Know before you book

  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • This is not a private tour. If you want a private tour then rest of the seats in the vehicle must be paid locally. Please tell us on booking
  • We need at least two people to start the tour.
  • This tour is ideal for Cruise liner guests
  • We structure our pick up times along with the arrival times of the ship
  • Should the ship dock late we will be waiting. for you to disembark
  • 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.

Activity itinerary

Swakopmund Jetty
  • 1h
Our Walvis Bay tour starts in the Walvis Bay Harbour or Walvis Bay Port, then we drive north towards Swakopmund, past the Bird Island, the only manmade Guano Island and into Swakopmund. At the Jetty we go for a walk on the Jetty and the Mole and share the history of this small German colonial town. We walk around and see some old buildings
Swakopmund Hotel and Entertainment Centre
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
We see old Hotels and Stations as we drive through the little town then we drive onto the gravel Plains of the Namib desert and our first stop is the Lichen field. This tiny plant is a joint venture between a mushroom and an algae, we learn how they compliment each other and how they survive
Moon Landscape Viewpoint 4
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
The gravel road takes us to various view points along the Moonlandscape. Traces of lava flow periods and ice ages are apparent all around you. You feel like you are on another planet, walking on the moon... We some Uranium exploration sites, and maybe some desert animals like Zebra or Springbuck
Goanikontes
  • 1h
Goanikontes is an oasis in the Swakopmund River. Very important location for the history of the area as it was the first watering hole in the desert from Swakopmund, an old Police post and vegetable were grown here. We learn the interesting History as we pass through the dry river bed
Welwitschia Plains
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Amazingly on the hard gravel plains where nothing grows we find the age old Welwitschia plant. This unique plant has no stem and only two leaves, it has adapted to absorb moisture from the fog and the little rain, and can grow to be hundreds of years old. There are male and female plants, these are pollenated by little brown and orange bugs that live in the plants. Thousands of seeds are produced that spread by the harsh prevailing winds. Nature is amazing
Dune 7
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket not included
After a long ride through the desert we pass Dune 7 close to Walvis Bay. Unfortunately we do not climb the dune we only have time to view it. we sadly return to the Walvis Bay harbour
Walvis Bay
  • 15m
We Stop at the Flamingos in the Walvis Bay Lagune, here are more than 750 000 Birds, comprising 54 bird Species, palearctic migratory birds, pelicans terns and Cormorants can be seen from time to time.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESSwakopmund Jetty
    • Swakopmund, Namibia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEWalvis Bay Port
    • Unnamed Road
    • Walvis Bay, Erongo Region, Namibia

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