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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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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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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The people who lead the way when it comes to those things which matter to us: exploration, the environment, women’s empowerment and education.
Southern Namibia
With large areas of the Sperrgebiet off-limits and sights scattered across the region, this area is often overlooked by first-time visitors to Namibia.
Southern Namibia boasts just as much spectacular landscape as the northern parts of the country, culminating with the vast Fish River Canyon. This canyon, found close to the South African border, can be explored both on foot or by 4×4, as it cuts its way through 160km of rock and sand.
Discovering southern Namibia
Further north, the landscape flattens and the sands of the Namib begin. On their southern edge, the ghost town of Kolmanskop lies abandoned – its mining riches now exhausted. The houses, built by German colonists, are still standing, but the sands of the desert have begun to fill them, making for an eerie atmosphere.
To the west, the winds and waves of the Atlantic batter the remote coastline, which is dotted with settlements that feel trapped in the past. The largest of these is Lüderitz, with its colourful Art Nouveau architecture. This coastline also attracts wildlife, in spite of the harsh climate, including seals, penguins and flamingos. Penguin Island, in Luderitz Bay, is named after its unusual visitors.
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Dine Another Day
“It is only the smiles and the warmth of the welcome that shatter the Bond-villain’s-lair feel. And the crystal glass of iced tea that is pressed into my hand says relaxation, rather than world domination.
Floyd, guide-turned-henchman, ushers me towards a golf buggy. It sits at the start of a wooden ramp that spirals upwards, squeezing between boulders and disappearing ominously out of sight.”
Experiences
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Namibia
Sonop
Spread across a huge pile of boulders like an overgrown treehouse, Sonop is constructed from an elaborate maze of raised wooden walkways that link spacious canvas tents. The surrounding landscape is stunningly harsh: the rippling sands…
Namibia
Kalahari Red Dunes Lodge
Sitting on reclaimed farmland, this private reserve is positioned on the western edge of the Kalahari Desert. 4,000 hectares in size, it contains the distinctive dunes that give it its name, as well as a wide…
Namibia
Desert Horse Inn
Found in the Aus Mountains, in Gondwana Sperrgebiet Rand Park, the Desert Horse Inn looks out over the arid plains from its vantage point 1,400 metres above sea level. The inn offers comfortable rooms with spacious,…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,…
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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.
Highlights of Namibia
Damaraland
Damaraland is scenically magnificent with vast desert landscapes, granite kopjes, deep gorges and open plains.
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.
Windhoek
Windhoek is Namibia's capital, and is situated in an airy basin in the central highlands, flanked by the Auas Mountains to the…
Swakopmund
Swakopmund is the main holiday resort in Namibia, it offers a perfect getaway destination in the western coastal area of Namibia.
Okonjima Nature Reserve
Located midway between Windhoek and Etosha National Park, the Okonjima Nature Reserve was established as a protected area in which orphaned cats…
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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