Meeting Place: Windhoek, Arebusch Travel Lodge, Auas Rd. Departure Time: Monday, 25 August 2008, morning from Arebusch Travel Lodge Cost: 9000 N$ (Namibian Dollar), excluding air ticket Limit: 20 persons (1 small coach) Guide: Leon Lubbe, Contact: Tel.: +264 (0) 62 2087007; Cell: +264-81 2205335; Email: LubbeL@mawf.gov.na
Day 1: Sunday – 24 August 2008
Arrival to Arebusch Lodge in Windhoek
Free afternoon
Dinner & Accommodation: Arebusch Lodge
Day 2: Monday – 25 August 2008
Route: Windhoek – Hentiesbay, stop at the Spitzkoppe
Dinner & Accommodation: Hentiesbay Hotel
Day 3: Tuesday – 26 August 2008
Route: Hentiesbay – Swakopmund
Vegetation & flora: lichen fields, moon landscape, Welwitchia mirabilis
Dinner & Accommodation: Alte Bruecke in Swakopmund
Day 4: Wednesday – 27 August 2008
Route: Swakopmund – Sossusvlei
Visit to the core of the Namib Desert (Sesriem Canyon, Sossusvlei)
Dinner & Accommodation: Soosusvlei Lodge
Day 6: Friday – 29 August 2008
Route: Anib Lodge – Koes – Keetmanshoop
Vegetation types: mixed thornveld and shrubland, Aloe dichotoma stand
Dinner & Accommodation: Canyon Hotel
Day 7: Saturday – 30 August 2008
Route: Keetmanshoop – Bethanie – Helmeringhausen – Aus
Vegetation types: dwarf shrubland
Dinner & Accommodation: Aus Vista Lodge
Day 8: Sunday – 31 August 2008
Route: Aus – Lüderitz
Departure for Lüderitz to Cape Town (14:40) by air
Day 9: Monday– 1 September 2008 (only for participants returning to Windhoek):
After having spent night in Lüderitz on 31 August 2008, return to Windhoek (there dinner & accommodation)
