Treesleeper Tsintsabis Namibia

Email: treesleeper@namibiabookings.com

Welcome to Treesleeper Camp!

Your cultural experience in the African bush.
Treesleeper Camp is a beautiful, exclusive camp site in the bush nearby the village of Tsintsabis in Namibia, Africa. It is a community based and sustainable tourism project with a strong focus on the culture of the Bushmen (San) people, the first inhabitants of Southern Africa. In fact, the name ‘Treesleeper’ is a translation from ‘Hei//omn’, the local Bushmen tribe in the area and the traditional inhabitants of Etosha National Park and surroundings.

Treesleeper Camp is perfectly located nearby the world famous Etosha National Park and has, apart from great private camping accommodation, some very interesting activities to offer. You can come over to walk a bushwalk or a village tour with a professional local tour guide, or you can experience a traditional performance at a camp fire in the evening.

A cultural centre has also been set up on Treesleeper Camp. Here you can sit and relax and buy basic necessities (cool drinks, basic camping food, cold beer, etc.). Apart from that you can buy local souvenirs and traditional Bushmen artefacts are exhibited. If you are lucky you can spot some small game at the nearby waterhole.

You have not seen Namibia if you have not been to Treesleeper Camp!

Treesleeper Camp Accommodation
Treesleeper Camp is a camp site, but not just a camp site. It is an unforgettable experience of camping in the African bush. You can sleep up high between the trees! Choose at Treesleeper Camp what category of camp site you would like. We have made something for everybody who likes camping, in different price categories:

Category 1: Campsite with shared ablution but no tree deck.

Category 2: Campsite with shared ablution and a tree deck.

Category 3: Campsite with a personal ablution block and a tree deck,.

And if you do not have your own camping gear, do not worry. For a small fee p.p.p.n. we set up a tent for you, with a sleeping mattress, a sleeping bag, a pillow and we will give you some basic cooking equipment (a bundle of wood, some pots and pans and a gas stove). We can organise camping equipment for groups up to 5 people.

Obviously we provide wood for your braai (barbeque), for only price - per bundle.

You can use the tree decks as a viewing platform or for placing your tent if you prefer to sleep on the deck. All camp sites are private areas with a braai, a tap, a picnic table (for 4 people), 2 solar lights and a bin. All ablutions have warm water provided by solar energy.

So in fact at Treesleeper Camp you can camp with lodge standards!

Activities
When you visit Treesleeper Camp we can offer you three activities: A bushwalk, a village tour and a traditional performance. All activities are dependent on weather conditions because they are all taking place outside and therefore Treesleeper Camp retains the right to cancel activities if necessary.

We prefer if activities are booked in advance, since we can not guarantee them taking place otherwise. This counts especially for the traditional performance, because during school holidays many children of the children’s group leave Tsintsabis and the people of the elderly group are often out hunting or working on farms.

All children younger than 12 years can join accommodation and activities for free if guided by an adult. Obviously they will not be counted then for activities where a minimum of people is required.

Bushwalk
If you do the bushwalk you will get a deeper understanding of the relationship that the Bushmen people used to have (and still have sometimes) with nature. You will learn about edible, poisonous and medicinal plants, see how they used to hunt animals, set up traps and made fire. The bushwalk is ideal for learning about the traditional way of life of the Bushmen. One guide takes you into the bush and explains about all these traditions.

Village tour
If you do our village tour you will get a better understanding of a culture in which traditions have now met the ‘modern world’. You will visit two very different current Bushmen villages and two families. Here you will see how they live nowadays and learn more about the contemporary situation. One guide will introduce you to families where you can ask questions and take photographs. This tour is about today’s ‘real life situation’ and does not exhibit Bushmen people in traditional clothes.

Time: 2-4 hours; minimum of 2 people; price charged - p.p.

Apart from the fee for the village tour, you will also be asked kindly to bring a small appreciation for the families you will visit (this can be anything that you want to give, a T-shirt, a bag of sugar, some tea). We do this for entering their houses and gardens and for taking pictures. And this way these people get some extra support.

Traditional performance
A traditional performance by Bushmen is something magic. You can see traditional singing, dancing, healing and other ceremonies of the Bushmen, performed by children of the Tsintsabis Junior Secondary School or by an elderly traditional healing group. In case of the children you support the cultural activities of the school.

The school has a fund for cultural activities and Treesleeper Camp supports that fund. You will get explanations and learn about the ritual dances and ceremonies and its’ meanings that are taking place around a camp fire.

Time: ¾ -1 hour; minimum of 4 people; price charged - p.p.

Please realise that this activity must be booked in advance at least a week!

How to get there
A 4x4 vehicle is not necessary to reach Treesleeper Camp. The location of Tsintsabis is shown on the map below:

Always follow the signs to ‘Tsintsabis’. Treesleeper Camp is situated next to this village.

From Tsumeb:
•After the railway crossing in northern Tsumeb go straight onto the D3006 to Tsintsabis;
•Follow this road for about 60km (Tsintsabis is signposted a few times) until you reach the signs indicating Treesleeper Camp.

From Namutoni (Etosha National Park):
•Drive to the main tar road (B1) and turn left on this road, direction Ondangwa;
•After 9km, turn right onto the D3001 where you cross the railway;
•After 80km, turn left at the T-section onto the D3006;
•Follow this road for 3.5km until you reach the signs indicating Treesleeper Camp.

From Rundu:
•Follow the B8, direction Grootfontein;
•After 146km, turn right onto the D3016;
•Follow this road for 96km until you reach the signs indicating Treesleeper Camp.

Email: treesleeper@namibiabookings.com