Our plane flight was with Eagle Eye Aviation a Licensed Air Charter Company situated in the coastal town of Swakopmund in Namibia. Specialising in Fly-in Safaris and Scenic Flights over the Namib Desert and the Skeleton coast. The Plane was a Cessna 210 that took 5 people, our only had 4 people.
The flight was called Sossusvlei Scenic covering 630 kms and lasting 2 hrs 15 mins. The route was as follows:- From Swakopmund Airport we fly low-level over the Kuiseb Canyon and Tsondabvlei, the only known breeding area for the Lappet Face Vulture in southern Namibia, towards the highest shifting sand dunes in the world at Sossusvlei. From there we pass over the Diamond Restricted area where you will still find three old diamond camps before we reach Conception bay.
After passing colonies of Cape fur seals, we see shipwrecks along the coast of the Eduard Bohlen(1909) 250m from the shore and the Shawnee(1976). We pass the Long wall (Namib dunes) before reaching Sandwich Harbour, a wetland of international importance and protected by the Ramsar Convention. We pass the coastal salt mines south of Walvis Bay, attracting thousands of birds. Walvis Bay, Namibia's major harbour town is our next destination.
Midway between Walvis Bay and Swakopmund, we pass the Langstrand Holiday Resort and the Dolphin Park Resort on our way back to Swakopmund.
We visited here in June 2017.
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