Author: Chard

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…

An estimated 80 percent of southern Africa's flamingos spend part of the year in Namibia, moving between the coastal lagoons and the inland pans as rainfall dictates. Two species occur here, greater and lesser flamingo, and both breed on the…

Namibia has around 2.6 million people in a country larger than France and Germany combined, making it the second least densely populated country on earth. Some thirteen ethnic groups and more than a dozen languages coexist here, with English the…

Pack for a forty degree temperature swing in a single day and you have solved most of it. A June morning at Sossusvlei can be near freezing and the same afternoon in the mid twenties. The items travellers most often…

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…

A private guided trip costs roughly 30 to 40 percent more than self driving and buys you not having to think about anything. One documented self drive couple covered ten days for 2,637 US dollars, about 264 a day for…

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…