Spitzkoppe Guided Tour from Swakopmund or Walvis Bay

What an amazing experience! Our guide, JP was knowledgeable and ensured we had a great experience. He showed us more than we expected, and the landscape took our breath away. He made us fall in love with Namibia! His lunch pack was excellent and we had more than enough to drink.

We booked a full day tour of Spitzkoppe and it was a total bummer. The guide was a cool talkative lad, but the tools and the programme for the full day were really terrible. Leon picked us from the hotel and we had a nice start of the morning, driving to the north via the coast and then heading east. A first weird moment was when front left door where I was sitting did not work so every time I had to get out of the car, someone had to open my door from the outside. Second weird thing was why did we have to drive East from the northern side of Spitzkoppe and then loose 4 hours of driving in the middle of nowhere in order to reach the destination which was 1.5 hours via the normal B2 road. We lost 2 hours of unnecessary driving which we could have used to spent at Spitzkoppe and enjoy it. When we arrived to Spitzkoppe we had lunch, which was pretty decent. Yet, no bubbles were offered. Spitzkoppe is beautiful and we wanted to learn so much more about it. Unfortunately the guide just hired a local guide to explain to us about ancient rock paintings and that was it. No history, geographical, cultural, or whatever explanation was provided to make you feel and to understand the place. Just getting to the rock drawings and the places for taking nice pictures. This is not what one would expect from a Guide! I could have learned more by browsing Wikipedia! This is not where the disaster ended, but where it started. Just before heading back, we asked for more water. The guide was out of water! We were in the middle of nowhere with no water in the basket. Totally not acceptable when you go for a full day trip! Apparently they had only 4 x 0.5l of water in the catering basket, which we had drank on the way to Spitzkoppe. Completely unacceptable! We were furious, but this was not all. When we entered the SUV and headed to the hotel, the air-conditioning of the car broke down so we had to drive two hours on a dusty road without water and without airco. A nightmare. My partner and I just wanted to reach the hotel and finish this “adventure” In conclusion, I would never go back to this provider. Paying 200 GBP + for this felt as a robbery at the end of the day. I was ready to get in an argument to have a refund, but in the end we were so exhausted that I decided just to let it go. Terrible experience!

Discovering rock art and the amazing tree that the San Bushman used as "perfume". Small lizards were the male and female has different head colouring.