Unique Tours and Safaris - your booking office for activities amp; excursions anywhere in Namibia

Photo: Namibia's oldest bowling alley in Kolmanskop near Luderitz

Namibia - Other Activities & Excursions

Not only the Central Skeleton Coast of Namibia provides various opportunities for activities and excursions. Most guest farms and game lodges situated in rural areas around the country have a number of options on offer. These however are only mentioned under the respective accommodation descriptions, as provided by the service suppliers.

Independent activity operators in Namibia are mostly based in urban centres and collect excursion participants and guests booked for activities from any accommodation establishment in and around their areas of operation.
Centres from which Activities & Excursions can be undertaking with such independent operators are:

Aus - western Karas Region

Lüderitz - coastal Karas Region

Opuwo - north-central Kunene Region
Otjiwarongo - Otjozondjupa Region

Outjo - eastern Kunene Region

Windhoek - Khomas Region

Unique Tours & Safaris serve foreign visitors as a one-stop-shop for all their activity and excursion requirements, while staying at the Central Skeleton Coast and around the remainder of Namibia.

Here you'll find essential Namibia Travel Info
What to do for sightseeing and activities while touring Namibia and neighbouring countries is described under Country Info.

Unique Tours & Safaris, Namibia

Contact Heike by Email:
info@unique-tours-safaris.com

Web: www.unique-tours-safaris.com

P. O. Box 1301
Swakopmund/Namibia
Cell:  +264-(0)81-2122580
Tel/Fax: +264-(0)64-406313
NTB-Registration: TFA 00107

Complete safari proposals can be found under

Suggested Itineraries

Namibia - Activity & Excursion Options
in other parts of the country

Lüderitz Area

Restricted Diamond Area & Bogenfels Tour
Full day guided safari into the Sperrgebiet with the 55 m high rock arch at Bogenfels as our destination. The tour passes Kolmanskop and Grass Platz and about 20km along the tar road out of Lüderitz is turning off into the Sperrgebiet at Rotkopf. After checking in at the security post Rotkopf tour continues along the dirt road towards Grillental. Stop for pictures and a short history lesson. From there it’s another 20km to the Swartberg, turn off into a small mine road heading to Pomona. En-route tour also passes numerous view points and several old buildings. At approximately 01:00 tour should reach Pomona. Guests may walk around and view the old ghost town and at approximately afterwards lunch will be served in the old school. Depart towards the legendary Bogenfels passing through Fairy Tale Valley and an old diamond field. Arrival at Bogenfels were time will be given to view the arch and also coffee will be served. Tour returns to Lüderitz in the late afternoon.
 

The operator collects clients from their hotels in Lüderitz from 9h00, the tour ends around 17h30. A minimum of 4 participants is required for the tour to depart.

Sedina Marine Cruise

The ‘SEDINA’ was named after the goddess of fishermen and sailors, in Stettin on the Baltic Sea, the home town of Manfred Wedell, who with his wife Gabi, circumnavigated the world in a tiny 8,10 m sloop during 1974 - 1977. On their return, they acquired the design of the legendary "Spray" with which Captain Joshua Slocum sailed around the world single-handedly: the first one ever in history. According to this Bruce Roberts design, the couple built the Sedina as a gaff - rigged schooner in The Netherlands from 1978 - 1981. They used 11 tons of steel for the multi-chime hull, covering a length of 12.90 m, a width of 4.41 m and a draft of 1.33 m and 90 square meters of sails.
In 1981, the Sedina set out for her long voyage, bound southward across the English Channel, down to Spain, over to Madeira, to the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, over to the north east of Brazil and down the coast to Uruguay. In 1984 she headed for Lüderitz and shortly after, via St. Helena, back to Brazil. Home is where the heart is, so the Wedell’s sailed the Sedina for the 4th time across the Atlantic Ocean, dropping anchor at their final home port of Lüderitz in January 1985, with some 22,000 nautical miles in the wake. All these years, they shared their love for the sea as well as the tales of their travels with many enthusiastic passengers, who felt not only to sail the coastal water of Lüderitz, but at the same time all around the world in just a couple of hours.
Daily trips visit the colony of Jack Ass Penguins at their sanctuary on Halifax Island, and an old Whaling Station, with lovely views of the lighthouse, Diaz Cross and a colony of Cape Fur Seals en route. Passengers also learn a lot about the history of Lüderitz and the entire area, as well as about the rich bird and sea life.

Windhoek Area

Windhoek City & Township Tour
Windhoek was initially known as Ai-gams (spellt /Ai //Gamas), a Nama word meaning ‘firewater’, ‘steam’, or ‘smoke’, and Otjomuise, a Herero word meaning the ‘place of steam’. The Nama captain, Jan Jonker Afrikaner, gave the town the name it carries today. In the 1840’s, Afrikaner settled where the most powerful spring reached the surface. It is assumed that he - in a moment of nostalgia - named the place after Winterhoek, the farm in the Cape where he was born. During the German colonial administration, the town was called Windhuk, which later became Windhoek.
A variety of historical buildings take centre stage in the city, providing a broad spectrum of insights into Namibia's historic past:
Windhoek Museum; the "Tintenpalast" ("Ink Palace") - Namibia’s original Government Building which now houses the Namibian Parliament; "Christuskirche" - the Evangelic Lutheran Church, a striking landmark built from local sandstone and completed in 1910; the "Alte Feste" (Old Fort) built in the 1890’s that today houses the Independence Collection; the Office of the Prime Minister.
An excursion into the history of Katutura starts with a visit to the Old Cemetery located in today's suburb of Hochland Park where Windhoek's black population resided prior to being moved to the current Katutura. Eleven ‘old location’ residents lost their lives as tensions escalated in 1959 and are buried here. The events surrounding the forced relocation are commemorated annually on 10 December, a public holiday in Namibia.
Katutura means ‘we don’t want to stay’ - a drive through Khomasdal takes us to Katutura, the sprawling suburb on Windhoek’s northern outskirts that was established in the 1950’s as a result of South Africa’s apartheid policy of divide and rule. Today Katutura is a crowded place where people from different cultures live together in peace and harmony. From iron shacks to up-market houses, it is a diverse, lively and historical place to visit.
Observe the buzzing life at Katutura's open markets where street vendors sell all and any type of produce and clothing. Here tour participant have the opportunity to interact with the community and try some of the food delicacies. Different types of traditional food are sold and nowhere else but at these open markets, such as Otjizema no Nyama (porridge & ,eat), Ovikuki (fat cakes), Oshikundu (traditional beer), Omafuma (frog meat), Outete (barbeque), Omaungu (mopane worms), Ekaka (dried spinach), Omakunde (beans), and Oshigali (dried beans) - to mention but a few.
Next stop is the Penduka Development Project situated at the Goreangab Dam in Katutura, The word Penduka, meaning ‘wake up’ in Oshiwambo and Herero, urges women throughout the country to become proactive and productive. This they have done and the project is a bustling little industry with a production unit, craft shop, tearoom and restaurant. A wide variety of handicrafts are produced and sold from needlework to embroidery and pottery.
After a drive through the ‘Shanty Towns’, which sprung up as people flocked to the city in search of employment and built houses out of any kind of waste materials, the tour ends with a drop-off of participants at their respective accommodation establishments in Windhoek.