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HOANIB SAFARI TOUR with DESERT ELEPHANTS
After a early breakfast you start in a open game-viewer with your local guide and driver to your safari in the dry
river beds of North-West Namibia.
After a short drive you leave the road and enter the wilderness. At Elephant Song you reach the Hoanib with
its green flora of reed, bushes and grass. This is also a place for natural water and keeps wild and predators. We
follow the riverbed and it becomes extremely exciting when we reach GANUMUB mouth and pass a port of
less than 10m in with. The mostly dry river, all animals and ourselves have to go through the port, but
remember : Give Elephants right of way !
Thereafter the river bed becomes larger, with the mountain in the background, growing big trees like, Acacia
and the famous Anna-tree. The population of animals gets bigger and after finding tracks of elephants and
lions we wish to see them.
Wild animals free ranging and in this extraordinary, remote area, is something very special. We spot some
giraffes, oryx (the proud weapon of Namibia) more antelopes, ostriches, baboons and zebras.
Our picnic will take place under a huge Anna-tree, sitting on chairs around a well prepared table. From the
Atlantic in a distance, less than 40 km West, fresh winds blow. Later on we reach Amspot, the westerly point
of our safari and the entrance to Skeleton – Coast.
For our way back we can choose an alternative. This leads passing the Giribis Vlakte, a huge flat savanna
without any trees or bushes, only covered by the yellow Savannah grass. Here we also discover the mysterious
Fairy-Circles in the red earth of Africa.
Late afternoon, loaded with numerous pictures and unforgettable impressions, we return to Fort Sesfontein and
…….Civilisation.