Nhoma Safari Camp is a small activity oriented, luxury tented camp (ten units) situated in the north east of Namibia, 80 km from Tsumkwe and 280 km from Grootfontein. The camp is situated on a dune vegetated with Zambesi teak trees with a 180 degree view over the Nhoma omuramba (fossil river bed). It is adjacent to the Ju/'hoan Bushman/San village by the name of //nhoq’ma, on whose culture the activities are based, and only 60 km, or a one-and-a-half hour drive on 4WD track, from the Khaudum National Park. The //nhoq'ma community, of about 50 adults and 100 children, has earned between N$60 000 and N$140 000 per year since 2000 from cultural activities as well as accommodation in the camp, allowing them to buy food and supplies not provided by the surrounding environment. Without tourism, the community would have left their ancestral land and moved to settled areas such as Tsumkwe where alcoholism is rife.

Facilities:

- 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.

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).

The usual length of stay at Nhoma Camp is two nights, but it is possible to stay only one night or even longer.