The Swakopmund Hotel and Entertainment Centre has been crafted to complement the architecture of the historic 1902 station building, now part of the hotel’s public spaces. The resort offers a perfect blend of charming, old-world tradition and the excitement of modern entertainment, including the casino, dune boarding, quad biking, nearby desert golf course, dolphin and flamingo watching at Walvis, or a romantic desert banquet. For a more tranquil experience, spa treatments or lounging by the pool provide the escape often promised but rarely achieved.
Optional Extras:
Catamaran Charters Dolphin and Seal Cruise
From meeting with pelicans to feeding seals, and if luck permits, leaping dolphins and shy turtles – all this and more on our daily morning educational dolphin and seal cruises. All tours are led by experienced guides and well-qualified and experienced skippers. All catamarans are equipped according to the latest safety specifications and are inspected thereon annually.
Charly’s Desert Tours Living Dunes Experience
Charly’s Desert Tours Living Dunes Experience is an extraordinary exploration of the coastal dune belt just outside Swakopmund. To the untrained eye the dunes are just a pile of sand, however, the skilled and experienced guides will introduce visitors to a wealth of desert life. Often referred to a “Living Desert Tour”, we will track Palmetto geckos, sand diving lizards, the famous fog-basking tok-tokkie beetle, sidewinder snakes, spiders, scorpions, and chameleons. As we explore this breath-taking terrain, we will share a lot of information on origin, weather and the special adaptations of its inhabitants. This 3.5 -hour exploration will be rounded off with a short dune drive. Our guides will pick you up from any hotel / Guesthouse in Swakopmund free of charge and we include still mineral water in all of our tours.
Please remember to bring beanies/hats, jacket gloves, sun crème and cameras with. We suggest that you wear closed shoes as the sand can be very hot from time to time.
Desert Dunes & Dust Tours: Scenic Sandwich harbour Dune drive – Half Day
Probably one of the most exciting and memorable scenic 4×4 off-road tour you can go on. Our popular Scenic Sandwich Harbour Dune Drive tour starts in Swakopmund and onto Walvisbay, we share interesting facts along the way to the Ramsar wetlands of the Walvis Bay Lagoon and Pink Salt lakes of the enormous Saltworks. We pass some 54 bird species of various endemic and palearctic migratory birds numbering up to 3000 000 birds in our summer. Flamingos, Pelicans, Turnstone, Avocets, Sandpipers, Plovers and an array of Terns and Gulls are seen along the way.
