Desert Rhino and Elephant Expedition
An Adventurer Exploration - 7 nights/8 days
For more than 20 years, the Save the Rhino Trust (SRT) has worked ceaselessly to protect the last free-ranging rhino population on Earth: the rare desert-adapted black rhino. In the remote, rugged Palmwag Concession, teams of local trackers use camel trains to help in researching and monitoring this animal.
On this original and exciting Exploration, guests join the "ships of the desert" on a great adventure: an eight-day walk across the oldest desert in the world, where a camel train and a team of Save the Rhino trackers take us deep into the heart of the Namib Desert in search of this rare and endangered species. Guests thus gain access to some of the most remote and almost inaccessible regions of the Concession. Guide Price £1450 per person
The revenues generated by this venture are channelled into the critically important conservation of the rhino population of the area.
Brief Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive and overnight at Palmwag Lodge.
Day 2: Early morning drive north to Mbakondja Camel Camp to meet the Save the Rhino Camel Team, then ride south to and overnight near the Aub River.
Day 3: Travel west towards the Barab River.
Day 4: Walk or drive west again towards Okomutati and Kudu Springs.
Day 5: Head on to Hunkab Spring and overnight in Adventure Camp.
Days 6-7: Bid farewell to the SRT trackers and transfer by vehicle to Hoanib Camp.
Day 8: Fly back to Palmwag Lodge in time for lunch.
Single supplement £155
Features of this Exploration
- Explore remote areas that are for the most part inaccessible by vehicle
- Original active adventure journey as guests join trackers in their work
- View spectacular desert life such as the desert-adapted elephant and black rhino, the latter a rare subspecies which has become a conservation success story.
- Track black rhino on foot and experience Save The Rhino Trust activities in the area.
- View extraordinary plant life, including the Welwitschia and numerous lichens.
- Camps situated in huge private concessions, ranging in comfort from luxury Discoverer tents to "wild camping" in Adventurer trails camps.
- Activities at Hoanib Camp include day and night game drives and nature walks.
- Contribution from guest fees made directly to the Save the Rhino Trust
Departure Dates - 09 May 2008, 09 June 2008, 25 June 2008, 25 July 2008.
