Namibia Tours | Guided | Group | from Windhoek

10 exclusive advantages of namibia-eco-tours

1) The tour group is limited to four to six people, ensuring a very intimate and private atmosphere among guests. You will be spared any unwanted surprises that can sometimes arise from the anonymity of larger groups. The small, very exclusive group size guarantees that your trip to Namibia will be a unique experience that you will remember fondly forever. Quality rather than quantity is the focus of a trip with NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS. Responding to individual wishes and ensuring absolute customer satisfaction are my highest priorities on every tour. During the tour, each guest has their own window seat and plenty of space in the Land Cruiser. A cool box in the car also provides refreshing drinks.

2) You benefit from fair pricing: NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS specializes in a small but exquisite range of travel options. You will be guided through Namibia by a nature expert with extensive experience of the country. The stated travel price is not graded according to the number of guests. Whether there are four, five, or six guests, you pay the same price! At NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS, the focus is on “maximizing happiness” – not maximizing profits! Fair pricing also means that the stated length of each tour offered refers only to actual days spent in Namibia – in other words, paid vacation days that you really get to enjoy. The two days spent traveling to and from the airport in your home country are not counted as travel days.

3) The travel guests are not only looked after by me as a guide throughout the tour, but also in the run-up to planning the trip. The guests on a booked trip often get to know each other beforehand at a meal together or at an online meeting. I offer a dedicated chat group (WhatsApp or Signal) for each trip, where individual questions can be asked or travel wishes expressed. I help with booking a suitable flight, online check-in, applying for a visa or with a suitable packing list. For me, you as guests are not anonymous customers, but Namibia friends whose anticipation of the trip I would like to share with you.

4) With NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS, you benefit from carefully selected accommodations. When visiting the world-famous Sossusvlei and Deadvlei, for example, you will stay exclusively within the national park boundaries, so that we are not dependent on the park's opening hours in the morning and evening. All other lodges and accommodations are located outside the park boundaries, which leads to morning traffic jams at the entrance gate. At NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS you can also tell me your special wishes. Perhaps you would like to see a very special destination on an offered tour, perhaps the possibility of a hike is important to you, the encounter with certain people, animals or rock paintings? No problem, such wishes can be coordinated and incorporated. Or would you like to travel a special route? I am also happy to design such individual tours and put together attractive accommodation.

5) The trademark and unique selling point of NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS is that you benefit from first-hand knowledge of the country's nature. Due to my 25 years of research work in the Namib, you will learn from me the current state of knowledge on certain topics and scientifically proven findings. For example, I will explain to you that the Namib does not have the highest sand dunes in the world (although this is often claimed), that it cannot clearly be described as the oldest desert or that fairy circles are caused by a so-called self-organization of grasses. I explain this adaptation of grasses to drought and the swarm intelligence of plants also in detail on my scientific website on fairy circles. You will therefore benefit from the same knowledge that I have also presented at Namibian conferences or as an active member at the Gobabeb Namib Research Institute or as a speaker at the Namibia Scientific Society. With NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS I would like to make this current state of knowledge accessible to every guest, regardless of your previous knowledge of the desert country.

6) In addition to ecology, I am also happy to share my passion for photography with you. Every now and then I am asked by travel guests what the best camera settings are for aperture, exposure time or ISO sensitivity. Or, how do you photograph the countless stars in the night sky in the desert? I am also happy to give useful tips on this. I also document every tour with my Leica camera and make the souvenir photos available to the guests after the trip.

7) On every trip with NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS, I also record the daily route with a Garmin GPS and make this file available in KML format. This allows you to retrace the tour in Google Earth after the trip and zoom in as far as you like. As my Leica pictures also save the GPS coordinates of each motif, you can trace the exact location of the photos on the route. In this way, the travel experience remains in your memory forever, even with digital support.

8) In addition to the GPS device, I also carry an Inmarsat IsatPhone 2 satellite phone, which all guests are taught how to use at the beginning of the trip. I have stored several emergency numbers in the satellite phone that can be called from anywhere in Namibia. I also make the satellite phone available to my guests for emergencies or urgent calls. Otherwise, I also have a Namibian cell phone number and you can use WLAN in all accommodations.

9) Last but not least, with NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS you can also enjoy observing the wildlife at close range with a spotting scope. I carry a Swarovski ATX 85 with the best image quality for this purpose. Thanks to the 25 to 60 times magnification of the spotting scope, you can experience birds or predators “up close” even from a great distance.

10) Finally, you can be sure that you are traveling with a tour operator registered in Namibia. NAMIBIA-ECO-TOURS is officially registered with a certificate from the Namibian Tourism Board.

Facts about the country

Area: Namibia covers 824,292 km² (318,259 mi²).

Location: Situated on the southwestern coast of Africa, Namibia borders Angola and Zambia in the north, South Africa in the south and Botswana in the east.

Population: About 3 million

Capital City: Windhoek

Official name: Republic of Namibia

Date of Independence: 21 March 1990

System of Government: Multi-party democracy

Head of State: President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah since 2025

Language: English, German, Afrikaans, Oshiwambo, Rukwangari, Silozi, Otjiherero, Damara, Nama, Khisan and Setswana

Literacy: The current literacy rate in Namibia is about 91%, one of the highest in Africa.

Religion: Freedom of religion was adopted through Namibia’s Bill of Fundamental Rights. About 90 % of the population is Christian.

Currency: The Namibia Dollar (N$); the Namibia Dollar and South African Rand are the only legal tender in Namibia and can be used freely to purchase goods and services.

Time Zones: Summer time: GMT + 2 hours from the 1st Sunday in September to the 1st Sunday in April. Winter time: GMT + 1 hour from the 1st Sunday in April to the 1st Sunday in September.

Electricity: 220 V AC, 50 Hz. Outlets are of the round three-pin type D or M.