Very interesting Fantastic Guides with passion Thanks to Johnny and emanuel





This living desert tour is a extraordinary exploration of the coastal dune belt just outside Swakopmund. To the untrained eye the dunes are just a pile of sand, however your skilled and experienced guides will introduce you to a wealth of life. Track Palmato Geckos, sand-diving lizards, the famous fog-basking tok-tokkie beetle, sidewinder snakes, spiders, scorpions, and chameleons. This 3-hour exploration will be rounded out with a short dune drive.
From the operator’s live schedule on Viator, checked Oct 10.
On the outskirts of out beautiful town begins the desert. We will spend the next 3 hours exploring the desert.
Please be ready at 8h30. Should we be a few minutes delayed, this could be due to picking up guests from another location. Please contact us on our mobile (+264811299076) if you have not been picked up at 8h40.
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Living Dunes Experience from Swakopmund lasts about 3h 30min. The itinerary has 1 stop.
Prices start at $65 per person for this Swakopmund experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. There is 1 booking option, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
According to the operator’s current schedule, it runs every day, starting at 8:30 AM.
Children aged 3–13 pay from $40, adults from $65.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
Yes, pickup is offered. Please be ready at 8h30. Should we be a few minutes delayed, this could be due to picking up guests from another location. Please contact us on our mobile (+264811299076) if you have not been picked up at 8h40.
The experience is available in EN.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 10 participants.
Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
Travellers rate it 4.6 out of 5 across 98 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor; it is run by Charly's Desert Tours.
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Very interesting Fantastic Guides with passion Thanks to Johnny and emanuel
If you think that looking for little creatures in the desert might be boring, think again!! This was one of the highlights of our Namibia tour. Emanuel, with his vast experience, was able to track tiny lizards, chameleons, snakes and beetles who live under the sand and who are invisible to the rest of us. Bjorn Anderson was a very knowledeable and highly entertaining guide, telling us fascinating stories about these little creatures and about his colourful life. I have only one complaint and that was about the pickup - we were picked up 3/4 hour later than we were told, which led to us wondering whether we would be picked up at all - Charly's you can do better than that!
Just back from this tour and it was amazing - very professional with the two driver/guides showing real love for the desert and its creatures. I have some mobility issues so was worried about how much walking there'd be. However you go from site to site in a land rover and then walk short distances with the vehicle always near enough to get back to if you need to sit. The guides obviously love what they do and, despite being ecologists, showed us things we'd have never seen on our own. Snouted lizards, burrowing skink, chameleon, beetles and a snake. They were disappointed not to find the gecko on the first few tries but we stayed a bit longer till they found one. Fantastic trip.
A super desert tour to the small creatures. Jonny tracked them down with years of experience and Björn presented them humorously with profound knowledge. Plenty of opportunity to see, learn, film, and take photos. We would never have found and experienced that without the guides.
The Living Desert Tour was a great experience. Scout Johnny was perfekt in tracking the little animals in and beyond the sand. Björn has magnificient knowledge about the Namibian nature and a very humorous way of presentig it. We were very impressed by seeing these little animals .
Fantastic opportunity to experience this very special but endangered habitat of unique creatures. Bjorn is both knowledgeable and entertaining and the ability of his partner to find these creature is something to witness!
A highly interesting and particularly sympathetic guided tour through the desert, in search of the little creatures. Together, Björn and Immanuel tracked down four of the Little Five and gave us interesting background information about these little creatures. In addition to the information about these desert inhabitants, Björn has provided a lot of general information about Namibia, Namibia's environmental protection, Swakopmund and even a great restaurant recommendation. We would book this experience again at any time and thank you at this point for the great time.
Fascinating tour where you learn a lot about life in the desert. The guides are excellent.
The tour we did with Bjorn and Johnny was excellent. They were well informed about the area and the animals and provided much interesting information as well as being patient and ensuring all participants were involved. Their skills complimented each other. Well worth doing and we both thought it was an excellent tour and well worth the money.
Punctual, friendly, insightful, and providing a wealth of information about the little 5, as well as geology, desert, Atlantic, and the national parks along the coast.
| Tour | Duration | Rating | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Living Dunes Experience from Swakopmund | 3h 30min | 4.6 (98) | $65 | |
Living Desert Eco Dune Tour | 4–5 hours | 4.9 (125) | $95 | View |
LIVING DESERT TOUR /Little 5Tour/ | 3–4 hours | 5.0 (14) | $74 | View |
Local Guided Walvisbay & Swakopmund Township Experience Day Tour | 4 hours | 3.2 (9) | $80 | View |
Mola Mola Marine Dune Experience | 8–9 hours | 4.9 (94) | $339 | View |
Walvisbay Dune 7 and Swakopmund Town Half Day Guided Tour | 4 hours | 3.8 (4) | $279 | View |
Shore Excursion- flamingos, dune 7, welwitschia, Swakopmund. | 5–6 hours | 4.8 (12) | $183 | View |