Nhoma Safari Camp
P.O. Box 1899
Tsumeb, Namibia
Cell:081-2734606

web: www.tsumkwel.iway.na
e-mail: tsumkwel@iway.na

Rates 2009

NHOMA sAFARI CAMP 2009 RATES

Email: tsumkwel@iway.na       Cell: ++264-81-2734606

 The camp is not open to walk-in visitors – bookings are essential! Tour operators can contact us for tour operator rates. The rates are valid from 1 November 2008 to 31 October 2009.

Facilities and rates: 

Ten en-suite double tents:

-          Ten spacious ensuite double meru tents of which three with double + single bed, two with double bed and five with twin beds. Five tents have a bath with shower head above inside a partition of the main tent and five tents have showers in a thatch-enclosed area adjoining the tent.

-     Fifteen double dome tents (3mx3mx2,5m high) sharing ablutions can be set up if required for groups of six or more.

Fully-inclusive: N$2400 per person per night
Dome tents fully-inclusive (six or more persons): N$1410 per person per night

Half-board accommodation (no lunch, afternoon activities included): half fully-inclusive rate

Cost of accommodation without any activities on DBB basis: Same as half-board.

- There is no single supplement.
- Fully-inclusive means that accommodation, meals, drinks and activities are included.
- Half day means that accommodation on dinner, bed and breakfast basis plus afternoon activities are included.

- Children 6-15 are accommodated at half STO rate.
- Children 5 and younger are accommodated free of charge.
- Rates include VAT, but do not include the NTB levy of 1% on fully-inclusive accommodation

Activities:

Cost of activities when no accommodation booked (only available for groups of 6 or more): N$1060 per person per day.

Description of activities: 

First afternoon:

Activities in the village - activities depend on what individual people are doing, such as cooking, making crafts, preparing hides, making hunting equipment such as quivers or arrows, preparing medicine. Afternoon activities start at 3 pm in winter and 4 pm in summer. There may or may not be a healing dance in the evening, but it is usual for guests to experience this on at least one evening.

Full day:

-          Cultural experience - guests are taken on a hunting/gathering excursion with four hunters. Skills such as fire making, rope making and setting of traps for birds and antelopes are demonstrated, as well as lesser known hunting skills with, for example, the springhare probe. Because the Ju/'hoansi are still active hunters, the hunters will follow promising tracks and the walk can turn into an actual hunt. The duration and intensity of the walk depends on the fitness of the guests and is adaptable. No set route or programme is followed. Honey and veld food is also actively sought. There is lots of interaction between the visitor and the hunters. In the afternoon, the community of //nhoq’ma awaits the return of the hunters to see what they brought back. The whole community will then participate in traditional games. This is followed by the Giraffe or Elephant healing dances in the evening after dinner, which is the way the owners of medicine cure illness and through which social tensions are relieved. (Day visitors will only see a demonstration of the dance in daylight).

-          Khaudum National Park – Day tours to this unfenced and unspoilt park (60 km away, but one and a half hour drive with a 4WD vehicle), is only recommended from July till October (game numbers too low in the rainy season). Overnight camping tours will again be offered when the facilities in the park are improved in 2009 (at fully-inclusive daily rate).

-          A full day tour to the Nyae Nyae pan (interesting bird life) and the fascinating baobab trees to the east. (The area can become inaccessible from February to April as it may become water-logged). 

Directions:

Turn off from the B8 between Grootfontein and Rundu onto the C44, the gravel road to Tsumkwe. The turn-off to Nhoma is approximately 185 km down the C44 (40km before reaching Tsumkwe) and the sign reads Nhoma/Aasvoelnes (to the north). Nhoma is 40km further on. This is a proclaimed road (suitable for any sedan and normally in good condition, but may deteriorate unexpectedly. Keep below a speed of 80 kph). There is a parking area below the dune on which the camp is situated. Fuel is not available.

Airstrip coordinates: S19deg14min14sec and E020deg14min10sec.  Elevation 3790 ft. 1000 m 09/27

Other important information:

-          Temperatures can reach a high above 37۫C from mid-September to November before the rains start. Winter temperatures can drop to 0۫C at night and rise above 20۫C during the day. Heavy rains can be experienced from January to March and may limit the outdoor activities. April to June and early September is climate-wise the best time to visit. 

-          It is a malaria endemic area and precautions should be taken, but we have few mosquitoes as it’s a sandy area with little standing water and the tents are generally insect-proof.

-          Hats, hiking boots and light-weight cotton trousers are essential (light or white clothing will dirty too much).

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