Travel reviews by Mr R & Mrs E - Wiltshire

Namibian Adventure

On this trip, I visited Namibia between 12-Oct-2010 and 29-Oct-2010 and I travelled with 1 other person.

Everything worked as planned and all the pre-trip advice was excellent (except Ongava). Very patient staff answering numerous questions. It helps that our adviser was a Namibian.

Thank you.

Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:

We missed out on comments about the Windhoek Country Club which was a great stopover.

Some lodges had poor entry roads (very badly rutted, far worse than the public roads).

The Skeleton coast no longer has any skeletons. We are glad we did it but there isn't much to see except the emptiness. We had difficult finding someone to open the gates to the NP as there were only 3/4 cars each way per day. We only had one shock with petrol in the whole trip. This was along the Skeleton coast where the petrol station at Mile 108 has closed. This meant, even with a full tank that we had to divert to Palmwag for petrol: a 50 km detour. This was exciting for us but not everyone's cup of tea.

We bought a cool box in Windhoek: this is probably a sensible move as ice is available everywhere.

I stayed at and have reviewed:

Place	Overall rating
Windhoek Country Club 13-Oct-2010 review: Namibian Adventure	Good
Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch, Namibia 14-Oct-2010 review: Bagatelle Kalahari Game Ranch review	Good
Vogelstrausskluft Lodge, Namibia 15-Oct-2010 review: Vogelstrausskluft Lodge review	Excellent
Sossusvlei Lodge, Namibia 17-Oct-2010 review: Sossusvlei Lodge review	Excellent
Villa Margherita, Namibia 19-Oct-2010 review: Villa Margherita review	Excellent
Doro Nawas, Namibia 21-Oct-2010 review: Doro Nawas review	Excellent
Ongava Lodge, Namibia 23-Oct-2010 review: Ongava Lodge review	Average
Mushara Outpost, Namibia 25-Oct-2010 review: Mushara Outpost review	Excellent
Okonjima Main Camp, Namibia 27-Oct-2010 review: Okonjima Main Camp review	Poor