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Our Tour Experts
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Where to Stay
Every captivating tailor-made itinerary needs a perfect base. Our team has handpicked this collection of properties to give you luxury options in styles to suit any adventure.
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Our Team
Steppes Travel is made by the people who work here. Incredible holidays are made possible because of their vast travel experience and the great enthusiasm they bring to their work.
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Our Tour Experts
We carefully select our experts based on their knowledge, companionship and influence, ensuring that you can travel with the most knowledgeable leaders in the field.
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Heroes and Heroines
The people who lead the way when it comes to those things which matter to us: exploration, the environment, women’s empowerment and education.
Damaraland
Situated near the rugged Skeleton Coast, Damaraland is scenically magnificent with vast desert landscapes, granite kopjes, deep gorges and open plains.
Colourful rock formations brighten this desolate landscape, contrasting wonderfully with deep-blue Namibian skies.
A little more about Damaraland
The region is famed for the ancient petroglyphs of Twyfelfontein, created by the predecessors of the Namibian Bushmen, as well as the nearby petrified forests.
Desert-adapted elephants roam Damaraland, surviving in the harshest conditions, whilst populations of wild black rhinos can be found in the Palmwag Reserve and the environs of the remote Ugab River valley.
Experiences
What do you really love doing? We curate your itinerary especially for you.
Namibia
Erongo Wilderness Lodge
Situated in a secluded valley in the Erongo Mountains, this beautiful tented lodge looks out over a landscape where deserts, mountains and bushveld meet. Its spectacular setting is best explored on foot. Trails crisscross the private…
Namibia
Etendeka Mountain Camp
Etendeka Mountain Camp is a permanent camp, situated in the foothills of the Grootberg, below the north-western escarpment of Namibia. This region is home to black rhino, desert elephant as well as Hartmann’s mountain zebra, oryx,…
Namibia
Huab Under Canvas
This semi-mobile camp is set up in the remote Huab Conservancy in northern Damaraland. Found on the banks of the Huab River, its green canvas tents sit amongst the shade of mopane thickets. The area is…
Meet our experts
A passion for travel runs right through every one of our experts - meaning they're always ready with first-hand insight about their specialist countries.
Illona Cross
Born in a small South African town, I have always followed my passion for nature and discovery. After studying Nature Conservation in Pretoria, I was one of the first women to complete a very tough cadetship in the Natal Parks Board. It was here where I cut my teeth in African wildlife management.
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Namibia
Self-Drive Across Namibia
This classic journey takes you through Namibia’s relentlessly dramatic scenery, exploring at your own pace and at the wheel of a 4×4. Drive across this relaxed country, combining landscapes, wildlife and activities on a route that takes in Etosha, Damaraland, Sossusvlei and…
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Namibia
Sand Dunes and Desert Wildlife
Begin with the windswept dunes of Sossusvlei – best admired from a balloon, before tracking desert rhinos in Kunene and exploring the exclusive, wildlife-rich Ongava Reserve. Journey across Namibia in comfort, flying over its inspiring landscape.
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Namibia
Family Self-Drive Adventure
This family-friendly, self-drive suggestion, combines the best of Namibia’s dramatic landscapes with two fantastic wildlife reserves. Track big cats with experts, watch rhinos quench their thirst, admire millennia-old rock carvings, cruise beside bottlenose dolphins and walk across vast dune-dominated landscapes.
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Namibia
Skeleton Coast Flying Safari
Explore a place breathtakingly silent, vast and empty. Fly low over shipwreck-strewn beaches, basalt mountains and ancient watercourses, staying at remote camps and accompanied by one of the knowledgeable Schoemans, who have been exploring this part of Namibia for generations.
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Namibia
Self-Drive Across Namibia
This classic journey takes you through Namibia’s relentlessly dramatic scenery, exploring at your own pace and at the wheel of a 4×4. Drive across this relaxed country, combining landscapes, wildlife and activities on a route that takes in Etosha, Damaraland,…
Idea
Namibia
Sand Dunes and Desert Wildlife
Begin with the windswept dunes of Sossusvlei – best admired from a balloon, before tracking desert rhinos in Kunene and exploring the exclusive, wildlife-rich Ongava Reserve. Journey across Namibia in comfort, flying over its inspiring landscape.
Idea
Namibia
Family Self-Drive Adventure
This family-friendly, self-drive suggestion, combines the best of Namibia’s dramatic landscapes with two fantastic wildlife reserves. Track big cats with experts, watch rhinos quench their thirst, admire millennia-old rock carvings, cruise beside bottlenose dolphins and walk across vast dune-dominated landscapes.
Idea
Namibia
Skeleton Coast Flying Safari
Explore a place breathtakingly silent, vast and empty. Fly low over shipwreck-strewn beaches, basalt mountains and ancient watercourses, staying at remote camps and accompanied by one of the knowledgeable Schoemans, who have been exploring this part of Namibia for generations.
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Highlights of Namibia
Skeleton Coast and Kunene
The Skeleton Coast was once feared for its mist and moving sandbanks and is the most northerly region of Namibia's vast stretching…
Sossusvlei
In the heart of the Namib-Naukluft Park, surrounded by a sea of ever-changing dunes lies Sossusvlei - a place of awe-inspiring beauty…
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park is one of Southern Africa's finest and most important Game Reserves.
Southern Namibia
With large areas of the Sperrgebiet off-limits and sights scattered across the region, this area is often over looked by first-time visitors…
Why Choose Steppes?
Our knowledge and expertise set us apart. So too our curiosity. It is this that drives us to create a journey that is really bespoke to you, all the while ensuring we travel and operate sustainably.
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