Sandwich Harbour 4×4 Tour from Walvis Bay

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Duration: from 4 to 5 hours
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Experience Highlights

Explore where the Namib dunes plunge into the Atlantic on a private 4×4 tour to Sandwich Harbour. The adventure departs every morning and afternoon from Walvis Bay; your guide picks you up from your hotel or a designated meeting point and, in less than 30 minutes, you'll be enveloped by a sea of sand that changes shape with every breath of wind.

The tour lasts about 5 hours and includes off-road tracks, diagonal descents over 100m dunes and stops to watch flamingos and jackals in the lagoon. At midday you will enjoy a safari-style lunch with cold drinks, served on blankets in front of the vastness of the desert.

  • Book your place and avoid massive groups
  • Experience the adrenaline rush of descending dunes until you reach the shore.
  • Enjoy an included lunch with desert-ocean views

What’s included

  • Pick up and drop off at Walvis Bay accommodation or agreed central point.
  • Route in air-conditioned 4×4 driven by local guide
  • Picnic lunch with drinks (water, soft drinks and beer).
  • Photo stops at the lagoon and dunes of Sandwich Harbour

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Step by Step

After leaving Walvis Bay, the vehicle skirts the lagoon filled with flamingos and pelicans. The guide adjusts the tyre pressure, switches on the four-wheel drive and drives into a maze of copper-coloured dunes. At each crest, the driver stops the 4×4 for you to photograph oryx tracks and the perfect ripples the wind makes on the sand.

The route continues to the large dune that guards Sandwich Harbour. The descent, controlled and diagonal, leaves the heart in the gorge before stopping a few metres from the breaker. On this strip of land where the desert kisses the ocean, you will have free time to walk on the crushed shell, spot black-backed jackals or simply contemplate the immensity.

In a place sheltered from the wind, the crew spreads out blankets and serves a picnic lunch: freshly made sandwiches, salad, fresh fruit, water, soft drinks and cold local beer. While you eat, the guide tells how this natural harbour was home to whaling ships in the 19th century and why today the dunes advance about two metres a year.

The return journey climbs new hillsides - each one different because of the changing light - and offers a final stop at a viewpoint where sand and foam merge into a single horizon. Back in Walvis Bay, you'll be amazed at how quickly the town picks up its pace while you're still carrying sand in your shoes and an indelible memory of the Namib.

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