Little Ongava

Little Ongava was designed to provide a private yet luxury and intimate space for guests to enjoy the magnificent beauty that is Namibia. Little Ongava is arguably Namibia’s most luxurious accommodation with pristine views across the Ongava plains.

The camp is perched on the crest of a hill boasting unforgettable vistas of the plains ahead offering an extraordinary experience as the focal point of an Etosha journey.

Little Ongava offers just three spacious suites each with its own plunge pool, en-suite bathroom, “sala”, and outdoor shower. The lounge and dining areas offer wonderful views of an active waterhole below the camp, the open deck allowing for relaxed, stylish dining under the African sky.

Guests staying at Little Ongava share a dedicated guide and vehicle, ensuring the best possible nature experience at one of Africa’s great wildlife destinations. The best way to explore this untouched land is through day and night wildlife-viewing drives, visiting hides overlooking waterholes, and walks and white rhino adventures with experienced guides. This can all be enjoyed exclusively on this reserve. Game drives and day trips into nearby Etosha National Park are also offered.

About the Etosha Heights Private Reserve

Safarihoek is set amongst an epic wilderness of vast savannah dotted with scatterings of mopane woodland and dolomite hills. This beautiful piece of Namibia is Etosha Heights Private Reserve, situated close to Etosha National Park’s southwestern border in northern Namibia. It’s dry and dusty yet totally captivating land, and the silence and solitude that pervades are poignant. Down here, the wildlife is as magnificent as it is in the national park, and there’s one key difference too. Access to the reserve is carefully restricted, allowing for exclusive and totally private wildlife experiences, free from tourist crowds and bulging 4x4s.

The impressive 60,000 hectares of classic Etosha landscape around Safarihoek Lodge is dominated by vast, flat savannah interspersed with thickets of mopane woodland, riverine forest, and scattered salt pans. The dolomite hills offer sightings of elusive mountain zebra, kudu and lion and the numerous waterholes attract large numbers of game and their feathered counterparts. The reserve is also home to numerous species of antelope including sable and black-faced impala, as well as giraffe and other plains game. In winter, aardvark and elephant sightings are not infrequent. The Etosha area is rated one of the best places on the continent to view rhino, and Etosha Heights is home to both white and black rhino. A morning spent tracking their footprints through the dust before eventually coming nose-to-horn with one of the endangered beasts is a memory not to be forgotten.