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Our top tips for Namibia's best wildlife safari holidays
Majestic lion resting beneath trees, cheeky meerkat bathing in the sun, delicate giraffe roaming through the untouched wild, powerful leopard lurking for prey, and lumbering hippo grazing at night… Namibia's wildlife is amazing, and certainly one of the country's biggest attractions. From small mammals, medium and small antelope and primates, to large antelope, big cats and dogs and large herbivores - here, wildlife aficionados get their money's worth! Below are our top tips for the best safari camps and lodges for wildlife holidays in Namibia; take a closer look by clicking on the names - and if you like what you see, then add it to your list of favourites…
19 of our favourite wildlife safari camps and lodges in Namibia
Ntwala's motor-boat trips along the Chobe and Zambezi rivers are excellent for birdlife, and spotting hippos and crocodiles. Relaxed big game from herds of elephants to massive congregations of buffalo are also often seen from the waterfront of Chobe National Park – especially during Botswana's dry season. - View lodge details
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Bagatelle's typical Kalahari dunes have good populations of springbok, oryx, giraffe, kudu, steenbok, black-backed jackals, warthogs, brown hyenas and marvelously comical bat-eared foxes. There are several troops of meerkats, including a habituated group. On old oryx and a young springbok frequent the farmstead – both are semi-tame. The ranch sometimes has cheetah and leopard in enclosures. - View lodge details
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Mundulea has much more wildlife than a typical Namibian guest farm – including large herds of eland and a recently re-introduced black rhino, giraffe and black-faced impala. It's the centre for interesting research into Namibia's endemic subspecies; if you're interesting and inquisitive, you can expect to learn an immense amount about wildlife here. - View lodge details
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The motor-boat trips along the Chobe and Zambezi rivers are excellent for birdlife, hippos and crocodiles – and relaxed big game is also often seen from the waterfront of Chobe National Park. On our last visit here, when we took a boat trip along the Chobe Riverfront, we spotted lion, sable, buffalo, elephant, puku, giraffe, elephant and warthog! - View lodge details
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Okaukuejo Camp's large permanent waterhole is flood-lit at night, and attracts vast numbers of wild animals, coming to quench their thirst. Black rhinos, zebra, lion, and herds of elephant are frequent visitors in the evenings, and whilst staying here, guests have most stunning opportunities to observe them at close range. - View lodge details
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Namutoni overlooks the flood-lit King Nehale waterhole, giving visitors the opportunity to observe animals and birds at close range, but the camp's main attracting is as a base for your self-drive forays around the park. Namutoni stands near Fisher's Pan, which is often used as the breeding site for flamingoes. - View lodge details
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The Skeleton Coast lies firmly within the Namib Desert, and much of it is amazingly pristine. Three or four days here allows visitors the priviledge of exploring the varied, and often eddemic, wildlife to be found here – loking at how it has adapted to the various micro-environments to be found here. - View lodge details
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Okonjima does some fascinating work with the big cats, and visitors get the change to see much of this up close, so getting much closer views of the big cats than are possible in most places. Obviously some are not truly wild – but if they were you wouldn’t be able to approach them so closely. - View lodge details
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Located on the border of Etosha National Park, Ongava Lodge offers fantastic game viewing both within the park and on its own reserve. An added bonus is the opportunity to track white rhino on foot whilst staying here, and to enjoy the night drives back to the lodge after the afternoon game drive. - View lodge details
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Desert Rhino Camp is one of the best places in Africa to see black rhino roaming free, and to track them on foot. There are also good populations of desert elephant, Hartmann's mountain zebra, giraffe and plains game. Lion, cheetah, leopard, brown and spotted hyena are also sighted here. - View lodge details
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Alternatively, click below for more ideas of places to consider for wildlife safaris throughout our specialist region:
Wildlife safaris in Africa
| Wildlife safaris in Botswana
| Wildlife safaris in Malawi
| Wildlife safaris in Mozambique
| Wildlife safaris in Namibia
| Wildlife safaris in Rwanda
| Wildlife safaris in South Africa
| Wildlife safaris in Tanzania
| Wildlife safaris in Zambia
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