Author: Chard

Namibia's national parks cover close to a fifth of the country and include the largest park in Africa, an entire protected coastline and a game park with no rivers at all. Around twenty state protected areas sit alongside a network…

A Namibia honeymoon itinerary usually runs eight to ten nights across the desert, a remote camp and a private game reserve, most often as a fly in trip between small lodges. Sossusvlei and the NamibRand hold the country's most secluded…

Namibia suits couples who want privacy and scenery over resort comfort. The country delivers star beds, private plunge pools, camps with sixteen beds in country no road reaches, and almost nobody else in the frame. What it does not deliver…

Namibia holds the largest free-ranging cheetah population in the world, and around 90 percent of it lives outside protected areas on commercial and communal farmland rather than in national parks. That single fact shapes everything about cheetah conservation here. The…

Namibia was the first African country to write environmental protection into its constitution, and it went further by giving rural communities legal rights over the wildlife on their own land. Around 87 communal conservancies now cover roughly a fifth of…

Damaraland is a region of red rock, flat topped mountains and dry riverbeds in northwestern Namibia, holding the largest free roaming black rhino population on earth and the country's first UNESCO World Heritage site at Twyfelfontein. It sits between the…

Deadvlei is a white clay pan in the Namib Desert holding the blackened skeletons of camel thorn trees that died centuries ago and never decayed, ringed by orange dunes rising more than 300 metres. Visitors reach it on foot, about…

Namibia offers two entirely separate fisheries and most visitors only hear about one. The Atlantic coast delivers world class shore angling for kabeljou, steenbras and shark, sustained by the Benguela current. A thousand kilometres northeast, the Zambezi and Kwando hold…

Fish River Canyon is a gorge roughly 160 kilometres long, up to 27 kilometres wide and around 550 metres deep in southern Namibia, widely described as the largest canyon in Africa. Day visitors see it from rim viewpoints near Hobas,…

Namibia is among the safer African countries to travel in, and the risks that actually injure visitors are not the ones they worry about. Driving accounts for more harm than crime and wildlife combined. Malaria concentrates in the far north…