For
reservation and info:
info@muafricatourism.com
Welcome
to our 8 days organized Tour for northern Namibia, specialized in Game
and Cultural Tourism: we hope that you will find all the information you
need for attraction and tourism activities in the northern Namibia.
And It will be our pride to show you our beautiful regions and unique
cultures.
Pick
ups from Windhoek International airport (accessible by air direct flight
from Frankfurt and connections from Johannesburg International airport,
South Africa ) and we take you all the way for 7days or more Tour.
Day
1:
Pick up from the Airport
Check – in at the Hotel: all meals inclusive.
Attractions:
Windhoek: City Tour:
Windhoek
the Capital city of Namibia, located in the middle of the country about
1720 m above sea level, is home to the 243 000 inhabitants, Although it
is known as one of the smallest Capital in the World Windhoek is home
to so many diverse cultures and unique attractions from the oldest Church
to the newest Hero’s arch.
- Christuskirche
built in 1910
- Tinten
palast build in 1914: now houses the Parliament of the Rep of Namibia
- Turnhalle
Building were the first Turnhalle Conference of SWA /Namibia in 1975
took place now houses the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: information
and Broadcasting.
- The
Zoo Park were some of the historical monument lays
- Katutura:
a residential area for indigence Namibians
Day
2:
Check
–out from the Hotel have Breakfast
Lunch and Snacks inclsive
Depart for Okahandja 60km from Windhoek
The
town is significance to the Herero people it was once a seat of Chief
Samuel Maharero and every year on 26 August thousands of Herero ‘s
converge in the Town to pay homage at the Graves of their Great Chiefs.
Visits are welcome to view this rich and colorful ceremony.
- The
town is an important for woodcarvers from the north and they practice
their skills ancient skills at the Mbangura Woodcarvers Market.
Okahandja is also a good place to buy our famous dried meat BILTONG
Otjiwarongo
250km from Windhoek
- Waterberg
Plateau park lies 50km from Otjiwarongo
A unique setting where wildlife lives on an extensive elevated plateau,
the park provides an opportunities to see many rare and endangered
species, such white rhino and roan antelope. Waterberg is also used
for the breeding of rare species and the wildlife bred here is now
being used to restock many parks, farms and communal lands in the
country.
- Otjiwarongo
is also a home to the Crocodile Ranch where Crocodiles are bred.
Lunch at Out of Africa Restaurant in Otjiwarongo
Etosha
National Park:
For
many years Namibia’s main tourist draw card has been the international
known Etosha National Park. Until 1960’s Etosha was the largest
Game park in the World, its surface area was reduced by a vast 77% making
its present size of 22 270 km2, it is still one of the largest park in
Africa. With its abandoned of wildlife, Etosha ‘s waterholes are
then like Open-air theatre with casts of thousands. Zebra, wildebeest
and gemsbok drink to the trumpeting of elephants and roaring of lions.
Enter
the park through the western gate:
- Check-in,
in one if the park’s Resorts
- Dinner
at the Resort Restaurant
- Visit
the Floodlit Waterhole and explore the resort
Day
3
Drinks and Snacks inclusive
- Spend
the whole day in the Park, Game driving and explore the abandoned
Waterhole of Etosha and not forgetting the unique 5 000 km2 landscape
of the Etosha Pan
- Lunch
in one of the resorts
- Visit
more Waterholes and Depart the Park through the northern gate into
Ovambo
Owambo
people
A
large percentage of Namibia ‘s inhabitants live in the Owambo Regions,
and the Owambo being more than 51% of the country’s population.
Owambo is a collective name for a number of tribes, which have a common
origin and culture moved down south in 1550 from the great lakes of East
Africa.
Here
you come first hand with the indigence people and our ways of living.
Check –in at Pune’s View B&B Ongwediva
Dinner at a Homestead for the Owambo Traditional Meals
Day
4:
After Breakfast
Drinks and snacks inclusive
Depart for:
Olukonda National Monument:
Olukonda
Village is a collection of historic Finnish Mission Buildings that now
comprise the Olukonda N. Monument.
- Nakambale
House: the mission house and northern Namibia’s oldest structure
built in the late 1870’s by Finnish missionary Martti Rautanen
(1842- 1926) locally known as Nakambale .It houses the Nakambale Museum,
where you will learn all about the history of the Owambo People, dating
back before the Europeans came to Namibia.
- Nakambale
Church:
Nakambale Church was Built in 1889 the year the first Finnish Missionaries
settled in Owambo.
- Traditional
Owambo Homestead at Nakambale will give you a depth insight of our
culture. A tour of the House, which a guide will explain to you the
meaning of every hut and their location. Where you will also be taught
how to pound Mahangu, the Owambo millet.
- Check
–in at Pune’s View B&B Ongwediva
Dinner at an Homestead for the Owambo Traditional Meals
- Oniipa:
long history with the Finnish mission, and the station been established
in 1872. Here you will be shown how to Weaver or make Baskets at Elcin
Vestments. And buy some souvenirs.
- Ondangwa
being the second city of the Owambo served as South Africa Defence
Force Base during the liberation Struggles from 1966 – 1989
and was subjected to mortar and Missile attacks.
- Lunch
in Ondangwa at one of the Lodges
- Depart
Ondangwa for Oshikango Namibia and Angola’s Trading point and
border post. Refreshments will be provided at one of the lodges in
Oshikango
- Eenhana
Visit the Homestead in Eenhana and experience been part of an Owambo
family.
Experience the Kalahari Woodland of the northern Namibia on our well
to Oshigambo.
- Omulonga
at Oshigambo: place where the first baptism of the Owambo people took
place in 1883.
- Onandjokwe
Lutheran Hospital the oldest hospital in the north built in 1908 completed
in 1911 by the Finnish Missionaries.
- Return
to the B&B
- Dinner
at the Lodge in Oshakati
Day
5:
Breakfast
Drink and Snacks
- Ongweidva:
valley of the leopard
- Oshakati:
Capital of the Owambo where cuca Shops with colourful names will entertain
you all the way through Oshakati
- Elim
Monuments for the Uukwambi Kings
The Monument has been erected at the site of King Nuuyoma’s
grave and the remains of his homestead.
- Oshikuku
Oshikuku Open Market
APC Arts Performances Center.
Performances by street children’s. Orphans, Schoolchildren and
young adults.
- Uutapi
- Ombalantu
Baobab
The Hollowed –out trunk of this huge tree has at various times
been used as a post office and a Chapel and was integrated into South
African Military base prior to independence.
- Tsandi
King Nashilongo’s Baobab
The Trunk of this large tree is hollowed out and served as an office
for King Nashilongo.
- Sir
Howard’s Baobab
This large Baobab was named Sir Howard’s Baobab in commemoration
of Sir Howard Gorges, first administrator of SWA who visited Ovamboland
in June 1916.
- German
War graves the grave of Albert Stormer (18.12.1914) is located close
to Sir Howard’s Baobab.
- King
Taapopi’s Residence
The Homestead reveals the complexity of a grand palace of the King.
- Onesi
picnic Lunch at Etuka Lake. With a short break
- Ongulumbashe
Monument
This monument makes the beginning of the liberation struggle, with
it battle that took place on 26 August 1966 between the SWAPO Fighter
and South African Army
- Ruacana
Falls
-
Home
to Ovahimba, an ancient tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists, many of
whom still live and dress according to ancient traditions.
-
Ovahimba
Homestead
-
Back
to Oshakati
Omatala Open Market
Game Complex and just drive though the city
Dinner at one of the Lodge in Oshakati
Evening Traditional Owambo entertainment on prior bookings at the
B&B
Day
6:
Breakfast and Check-out:
Drinks and Snacks
Depart for Tsumeb:
- Oshikoto
Lake
A unique museum as its origin in 1915 when the retreating German forces
dumped their military equipment in Oshikoto Lake.
- Tsumeb
Museum:
Where the collection of rare minerals can be viewed as well as number
of cannons machine-guns and other weapons from the First World War
are on display.
- Grootfontein
Lunch in Grootfontein
Home to the largest know meteorite in the world, the Hoba Meteorite
50- ton mass of nickel and iron is between 100 million and 300 million
years old crashed to earth on some 30 000 to 80 000 years ago.
- Check
–in one of the Lodge
Dinner at the lodge.
- Rundu
River town of Rundu, on the banks of Okavango, is home to the okavango
people our woodcarvers of all times. This ancient craft handed down
over generations is a flourishing industry today.
Day
7:
Check – out and Depart after Breakfast.
Drinks and Snacks
- Otavi
agricultural Town
- Visit
the Okonjima Lodge were their cats Cheetahs, leopards, Lions
Lunch At Okonjima Lodge
- Okahandja
Stop at the Mbangura Woodcarvers Market for some Curio Shops
- Windhoek
Check –in at the Hotel. Experience to nightlife
Dinner Africa Restaurant your last chance to enjoy African Food.
Day
8:
Breakfast
Drinks and Snacks, lunch.
- Make
sure to take some of our unique products back home with you Windhoek
offers you variety of products to choose from include candle embedded
with the desert sand, Stylishly recycled lampshades and ever changing
books and calendars featuring Namibia’s natural and national
history with beautiful photographs by Namibian Artist. long after
you have leave Namibia, the country’s fine traditional arts,
jewellery and crafts inspired by the beauty of the country and its
people will inspire you to return.
- Transfer
to the airport
For
reservation and info:
info@muafricatourism.com |