Category: Namibia

Moon Valley and the Welwitschia Drive form a half day circuit inland of Swakopmund through the Namib section of Namib-Naukluft National Park, taking in an eroded valley of bare rounded hills and a plain holding welwitschia plants over a thousand…

A photography trip to Namibia is a scheduling problem before it is anything else. The country's best subjects each have a window of ninety minutes or less, and the difference between a dedicated photographic itinerary and a normal one is…

Sossusvlei works in every month and the hour matters more than the season. April, May, September and October are the sweet spots. Winter gives clear skies and mornings near freezing. Summer brings heat above 40 degrees and storm cloud the…

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…

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…

Kaokoland is the remotest part of Namibia reachable by road, a mountainous stretch of the Kunene Region running north to the Angolan border where the Himba still live largely as they have for centuries. Opuwo is the only real supply…

Mudumu National Park covers around 1,000 square kilometres of woodland and floodplain along the Kwando River in Namibia's Zambezi Region, between Bwabwata to the west and Nkasa Rupara to the south. It holds elephant, buffalo, hippo, sable and roan, along…

Big Daddy is the tallest dune in the Sossusvlei area at roughly 325 metres, standing between Sossusvlei pan and Deadvlei. The climb follows a ridge and takes most people between forty five minutes and two hours, finishing with a descent…

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…

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…