Author: Chard

Namibia safari lodges range from government run rest camps inside the national parks to private desert camps charging well over a thousand US dollars per person per night. The choice that matters most is whether a property sits inside a…

These two cost roughly the same and offer entirely different trips. A 19 day Namibian self drive and a 23 day South African one both start around 3,200 US dollars per person sharing. South Africa gives you cities, wine, coast…

Botswana delivers more animals; Namibia delivers more country. That is the honest summary and everything else follows from it. Botswana costs considerably more and concentrates on wildlife. Namibia costs a fraction as much, can be self driven, and offers desert,…

Namibia's visa rules changed on 1 April 2025 and a great deal of published advice has not caught up. Nationals of 32 countries that previously entered visa free, including most of Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and…

Namibia holds two of the world's three zebra species, and one of them is close to being a Namibian animal. Hartmann's mountain zebra is around 95 percent near-endemic to Namibia, living on the rocky escarpment of the west. Burchell's plains…

Namibia is one of the easiest African countries to travel with children, mainly because most of it carries little to no malaria risk and because self driving lets you set the pace entirely around them. The constraints are lodge minimum…

East Africa has the animals and Namibia has the country. The Serengeti and the Mara hold densities and a migration Namibia cannot match. Namibia offers desert, dunes, a shipwreck coast and self driving at a fraction of the cost. For…

The five things that catch travellers out in Namibia are the visa, the driving times, the cold nights, the single vehicle accident clause and the Sesriem gate. Everything else is manageable with ordinary planning. This page answers the questions that…

A Namibia wildlife safari itinerary looks nothing like the standard tourist circuit, because it drops Sossusvlei and the coast entirely and spends the time on animals instead. The eleven night route below runs Okonjima, four nights at Etosha, rhino tracking…

A Namibia self drive camping itinerary is built around campsites rather than distances, because the best pitches in the country sit inside park gates that lodges cannot reach. The route below runs fourteen nights from Windhoek through Sesriem, the coast,…