Coast, granite and leopards for Jaco & Chante · 24

Your private journey

7 days, your own wheels

A seven-day self-drive for the two of you: three nights in our own house at Long Beach, one at Spitzkoppe and two at Okonjima, with the dolphin cruise, Sandwich Harbour and leopard and pangolin tracking all included. At Okonjima you choose between a Plains Camp room and the cheaper tented campsite.

Where: Long Beach · Spitzkoppe · Okonjima
When: 24 – 30 April 2027
How long: 7 days, 6 nights; about 1,215 km by road
How you travel: Self-drive, in your own car from the airport on Sat 24 April to Fri 30 April; then we collect you at the airport for our wedding weekend at Saroa Lodge
Prepared for: Jaco and Chante Bezuidenhout
Status: Draft: details to be confirmed with you

One · The route

The route, stop by stop

A loop from the airport: west to the coast, inland to Spitzkoppe, on to Okonjima and back to the airport, where we collect you for the wedding weekend at Saroa. Seven days, three stops, and three days with no long drive at all.

Schematic · not to survey accuracyAirport → coast → Spitzkoppe → Okonjima → airport → Saroa, with us

24 AprAirport to Long Beach · collect your car≈435 km · 4.5 hrs

25 AprLong Beach · dolphin and seal cruiseno transfer

26 AprLong Beach · Sandwich Harbourno transfer

27 AprLong Beach to Spitzkoppe≈165 km · 3 hrs

28 AprSpitzkoppe to Okonjima≈345 km · 5 hrs

29 AprOkonjima · leopard and pangolin trackingno transfer

30 AprOkonjima to the airport · drop the car; we take you on to Saroa≈270 km · 3.5 hrs

Day one is the longest drive: about 4½ hours from the airport to the coast after your flight. Tell us your flight times and we'll plan the day around them.

Two · Where you'll stay

3 stops, one car

Three places, each chosen for what you'll do there: the coast, the granite and the leopards.

Sunset from the stoep

Sat 24 – Tue 27 AprBy road · about 435 km, 4½ hours

Sandura's own house · Long Beach

Long Beach, short to-do list

3 nights · the whole house · self-catering

Self-catering Sandwich Harbour Seal of approval

Our own house at Long Beach (Langstrand), on the coast between Swakopmund and Walvis Bay, is yours for three nights. Cook when you feel like it, eat out when you don't, and let the Atlantic do the background music. Two full days here: one on the water, one in the dunes. Shore thing.

Your days here

Sat 24 AprLand, collect your car at the airport and drive west to the coast. It's the long day of the trip, so take it slow; the house will be waiting.
Sun 25 AprMorning dolphin and seal cruise from Walvis Bay: about four hours past the Pelican Point seal colony, with oysters and sparkling wine on board. The seals sometimes climb aboard, so have the camera ready for a seal-fie.
Mon 26 AprSandwich Harbour with our own guide, where the dunes run straight into the Atlantic. Lunch is included and the timing follows the tide. Honestly, the best thing since sliced bread.
Every eveningFree, to go and baptise unsuspecting strangers. The Atlantic is cold enough here to make it a baptism they won't forget.

Included

3 nights in our house, self-catering
Dolphin and seal cruise, with oysters and sparkling wine
Sandwich Harbour with our guide, lunch and permit included
Sandboarding, if you'd like to add it, at no extra cost

Your own meals here: cook at the house, or head into Swakopmund for Café Anton, The Jetty, Altstadt or the Brauhaus.

Spitzkoppe at dusk

Tue 27 – Wed 28 AprBy road · about 165 km, 3 hours

Spitzkoppe Cabin Camp · Spitzkoppe

A night under the granite

1 night · a cabin · self-catering

Self-catering Spitzkoppe at dusk Stars, no screens

Simple wooden cabins at the foot of the Gross Spitzkoppe, the granite peak that rises about 700 m above the plains. Bed linen is provided and the bathrooms are shared; you bring your own food and towels. It's a quiet night by design: a fire, dinner your way, and a sky full of stars.

Your days here

Tue 27 AprDrive inland to Spitzkoppe. Stock up for dinner before you leave the coast, then watch the granite turn red at sunset.
Wed 28 AprAn early walk with a community guide if you'd like one (below), then on to Okonjima.

Optional · at reception

A walk with a Spitzkoppe community guide — the Gross Spitzkoppe hike (4–5 hours) or the Pontokke hike (3 hours), both starting by 08:00 before the heat, or the San rock art: the Golden Snake on foot (R150 per person), and Smalls and the Chain for a tip to your guide.

About R600 (Gross Spitzkoppe) or R450 (Pontokke) per person — booked and paid at reception on arrival

Included

1 night in a cabin, self-catering
Spitzkoppe community entry

Bring your own food, drinks and towels for the night.

Plains Camp and its waterhole

Wed 28 – Fri 30 AprBy road · about 345 km, 5 hours

Plains Camp or the tented campsite · Okonjima Nature Reserve

On the trail of the leopard

2 nights · two ways to stay: a Plains Camp room or the tented campsite

Two ways to stay Leopard tracking Home of AfriCat

Okonjima is a private nature reserve of about 20,000 hectares and the home of the AfriCat Foundation. Its leopards are radio-collared and followed by telemetry, which makes it the surest place in Namibia to see one, though the wild never makes promises. You can stay in comfort at Plains Camp, with dinner and breakfast made for you, or keep it simple and cheaper in Okonjima's tented campsite and cook for yourselves. Either way, the tracking is the same.

Your days here

Wed 28 AprDrive to Okonjima and settle in before dinner.
Thu 29 AprLeopard tracking and pangolin tracking on foot, one in the cool of the morning and one in the late afternoon; the lodge sets the times. Pangolin tracking is only for guests who stay two nights, and sightings are never guaranteed.
Fri 30 AprBreakfast, then about 270 km, 3½ hours, back to the airport to drop the car. We collect you there and take you to Saroa Lodge for our wedding weekend.

Choose one · Option A or B

Option A · Plains Camp, Classic room — a proper room with windows onto the plains, dinner and breakfast made for you, and coffee, tea and fruit through the day.

Option B · the tented campsite — a domed tent with two single beds, a private bathroom block, covered dining areas, a braai area with a two-plate gas stove, firewood, its own waterhole and a sundowner view point. You bring your own food, toiletries and bedding. It's built for groups, so we'll confirm with Okonjima that they'll take the two of you.

The difference: R13,064 less for Option B — both prices are in section three

Included

2 nights at Okonjima, in the option you choose (below)
Leopard tracking
Pangolin tracking on foot
Okonjima's park levy

Three · What it comes to

Two options, one invoice

The whole trip is the same in both options except where you sleep at Okonjima. Each price is split two ways so you can see where it goes; both are for the two of you, and everything marked as included sits inside them.

Option A · Okonjima Plains Camp, Classic room

Where you sleep and eat

R24,164

Three nights in our own house at Long Beach, a night in a cabin at Spitzkoppe, and two nights at Okonjima's Plains Camp with dinner and breakfast, including Okonjima's park levy.

Your car and the days

R22,196

Your own car for the whole trip, with zero-excess cover and unlimited kilometres; the dolphin and seal cruise; Sandwich Harbour with our guide and lunch; and leopard and pangolin tracking at Okonjima.

Fuel is yours: you fill up as you go, as with any self-drive.

R46,360 for the two of you

R6,623per day, for both

7 · 6days · nights

R23,180per person

Option B · Okonjima tented campsite, self-catering

Where you sleep and eat

R11,100

Three nights in our own house at Long Beach, a night in a cabin at Spitzkoppe, and two nights in Okonjima's tented campsite, cooking for yourselves, including Okonjima's park levy.

Your car and the days

R22,196

Your own car for the whole trip, with zero-excess cover and unlimited kilometres; the dolphin and seal cruise; Sandwich Harbour with our guide and lunch; and leopard and pangolin tracking at Okonjima.

Fuel is yours: you fill up as you go, as with any self-drive.

R33,296 for the two of you

R4,757per day, for both

7 · 6days · nights

R16,648per person

Mates' rates: both options are priced at cost, with nothing added on top, and in rand, so there is no exchange rate to think about. One invoice covers everything marked as included; fuel, your own meals at Long Beach and Spitzkoppe (and at Okonjima in Option B), and drinks are yours.

Prices in South African randYou are invoiced in South African rand, on par with the Namibian dollar, so the price you see is the price you pay.

Four · Why we built it this way

The days, and the rooms

Three nights at the coast, because Swakopmund deserves more than a drive-by: one full day on the water with the dolphins and seals, and one in the dunes at Sandwich Harbour. Spitzkoppe breaks the road inland with a night under the granite, and two nights at Okonjima give you a full day for both the leopards and the pangolin, which only two-night guests may track. The two Okonjima options let you choose between comfort and saving: the tracking is the same in both. Simple, comfortable places to sleep, and every day built around one thing worth getting up for.

Five · What is included

Everything above, in one list

Everything marked as included in this itinerary is inside the price. This is that list in full, so there is nothing to work out from the pages above.

Where you sleep

3 nights in our own house at Long Beach, self-catering
1 night at Spitzkoppe Cabin Camp, self-catering
2 nights at Okonjima: a Plains Camp Classic room (Option A) or the tented campsite, self-catering (Option B)

What you eat

Option A: dinner and breakfast at Okonjima, with coffee, tea and fruit through the day
Lunch at Sandwich Harbour
Oysters and sparkling wine on the dolphin cruise

Your car

Toyota Corolla Cross (automatic), collected and returned at the airport, Sat 24 to Fri 30 April
Unlimited kilometres and zero-excess cover (unless negligent driving is proven), with tyre and glass cover
Our own guide for Sandwich Harbour
24/7 support from Sandura while you're on the road
Our transfer from the airport to Saroa Lodge on Fri 30 April

What you do

Dolphin and seal cruise from Walvis Bay
Sandwich Harbour with our guide
Leopard tracking at Okonjima
Pangolin tracking on foot at Okonjima
Sandboarding, if you'd like to add it, at no extra cost

Fees

Okonjima's park levy
Spitzkoppe community entry
The Sandwich Harbour permit

Bring your passports. The fees are paid, but Namibian park gates require photographic identification from every visitor on the way in and on the way out. That applies at Sandwich Harbour on Mon 26 April. Keep them in the vehicle rather than in a case.

Six · Not included

What sits outside it

International flights to and from Windhoek
Namibian entry requirements and any visa fees
Fuel: you fill up as you go
Your own meals and groceries at Long Beach and Spitzkoppe, and lunches on the road
Option B: your own food, toiletries and bedding at Okonjima
Optional: a walk with a Spitzkoppe community guide, paid at reception
Drinks, other than those named in this itinerary
Travel insurance, personal expenses and gratuities

Seven · The season

Late April, green and easy

Late April is a lovely time to go: the rains have eased, the country is still green, and the crowds are light. The coast runs cooler and greyer than inland because of the Benguela fog, so pack a warm layer for Long Beach even though Okonjima will be warm by day. Bring closed shoes and muted colours for tracking on foot, a hat and sunblock, and your own towels for Spitzkoppe (and bedding for Okonjima if you choose the tented campsite). There are no Namibian public holidays during your trip.

Eight · What happens now

What happens now?

This is your look book, made to be changed. Three steps take it from here to booked.

01

You review it

Look at the price, the lodges and the days. Tell us your flight times, so we can make day one work.

02

You come back to us

Reply on WhatsApp or by email and tell us what you are happy with and what you would change: a different lodge, more or less luxury. We finalise the itinerary.

03

A 30% deposit confirms it

The final itinerary comes with a date to accept by. Once you accept, a 30% deposit confirms the entire booking and is non-refundable.

Subject to availability

Every property is subject to availability until your deposit is in. If one cannot be secured we replace it with one of the same standard and ask you first, and if the replacement costs more, we carry the difference.

Details to be confirmed Tell us what to change

Please respond with your preference: lodge swap-outs, a more or less luxurious option. Our goal is to perfect the trip for you.

Deposit · 30%R13,908

or R9,989 with Option B

Due by the date we give you; confirms the booking; non-refundable

Before you travelR32,452

or R23,307 with Option B

The balance, 60 days before you travel

On the roadNothing

Except fuel and your own meals at Long Beach and Spitzkoppe

Why is it non-refundable? The 30% deposit is what confirms every booking: the lodges, your car and each excursion. As soon as we receive it, it is paid out to them. If the worst happens, we contact each supplier individually and ask for a refund, and whatever we are able to recover, we send back to you. We cannot guarantee an amount: each supplier has its own terms and refund rates, and some refund nothing at all.

Want something added, before you leave or on the road? Say the word and we book it.

Your first and last days The first and last days may change depending on your flight times. We confirm them with you once you accept this itinerary.

Look book · details to be confirmed

Tell us, and we shape it

Reply by email or on WhatsApp, whichever suits you. Both buttons open a message to Roux-Han with your itinerary named; add what you would keep and what you would change.

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Nine · For your eyes only

Prepared for you, and only you

This itinerary is proprietary and confidential. Sandura Tours prepared it for Jaco and Chante Bezuidenhout alone, and it is shared with you in confidence.

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