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 has been inhabited for tens of thousands of years and independent for a few decades. Between those two facts sit German colonial rule, the first genocide of the twentieth century, South African occupation, apartheid and a liberation war that…

The green season is Namibia's contrarian window, running roughly November to April with heat, storm cloud, dispersed wildlife, the best birding of the year and rates that fall considerably. Photographers gain skies the dry season cannot produce. Wildlife watchers lose…

A first Namibian trip should cover four places in ten days, not seven places in ten days. The commonest planning error here is treating a map as a schedule. Sossusvlei, Swakopmund, Etosha and Damaraland form the standard circuit, and the…

Gondwana Canyon Park is what happens when overgrazed sheep farms are bought up and the fences come down. A private reserve adjoining Fish River Canyon in southern Namibia, assembled from former farmland and rehabilitated over decades, it now supports game…

Etosha National Park is Namibia's flagship safari destination, built around a salt pan so vast that game viewing works in reverse here: you sit still at a waterhole and the animals come to you, because there is nowhere else to…

Etosha is built for self driving and the arithmetic catches people out. The speed limit is 60 kilometres an hour and you should not expect to cover more than 25 in an hour once you stop for animals. Gates open…

Etosha's waterholes are the whole basis of game viewing here, because the park has no rivers and every animal has to drink at one of roughly forty springs and boreholes within a day or two. Knowing which ones produce what,…