Category: Namibia

The Naukluft Mountains form the eastern section of Namib-Naukluft National Park, a craggy massif of gorges, plateaus and permanent springs holding pools deep enough to swim in. Two day trails run here without booking, the 10 kilometre Olive and the…

Great white pelicans are the birds that land on the deck of your boat at Walvis Bay, with a wingspan reaching around three metres. Namibia holds two species, the great white on the coast and the smaller pink backed in…

Sesfontein is the last fuel and supplies before Kaokoland proper, a small settlement built around a restored German colonial fort in the northern Kunene. It holds one of Namibia's founding communal conservancies and sits at the junction where the road…

Twyfelfontein holds one of the largest concentrations of rock engravings in Africa, with over two thousand images pecked into sandstone in a single Damaraland valley, and it became Namibia's first UNESCO World Heritage site. Guided visits are compulsory and take…

The Windhoek to Sossusvlei road trip runs roughly 350 to 380 kilometres southwest to Sesriem and takes about five hours, though the route you pick changes that considerably. Three main options exist: the Rehoboth and C24 road over Spreetshoogte Pass,…

Nkasa Rupara National Park is Namibia's largest protected wetland, around 320 square kilometres of channels, reed beds and islands where the Kwando River becomes the Linyanti at the southern tip of the Zambezi Region. It holds close to a thousand…

The Petrified Forest near Khorixas holds around fifty fossilised tree trunks lying in open veld, some up to 34 metres long, dating to roughly 260 to 280 million years ago. The trees did not grow here. They were carried in…

Sesriem Canyon is a narrow gorge about a kilometre long and up to 30 metres deep, cut by the Tsauchab River through sedimentary rock a few kilometres from the Sossusvlei gate. It is walkable on a self guided trail, needs…

Uis is a former tin mining town of around 3,600 people at the foot of Namibia's highest mountain. It was downgraded from village to settlement in 2010, which tells you what happened when the mine closed. It survives on passing…

The Windhoek to Swakopmund road trip runs about 360 kilometres west on the B2 through Okahandja, Karibib and Usakos, taking roughly four hours on tar the whole way. It is the easiest long drive in Namibia and works in any…