Category: Namibia

Namibia's Atlantic coast runs roughly 1,570 kilometres from the Orange River to the Kunene, and almost every metre of it is protected inside a chain of national parks. The cold Benguela current keeps it fogbound and chilly year round while…

The black-faced impala is a vulnerable subspecies found only in northwestern Namibia and southwestern Angola, making it one of very few genuinely near-endemic large mammals in the country. Etosha National Park holds the largest population, established by a translocation operation…

Namibia's desert-adapted lions survive in the arid Kunene Region of the northwest, where the first systematic count across their range recorded around 57 to 60 adults plus cubs. Their numbers have swung between roughly 20 and 180 within living memory,…

Namibia holds around 12,000 Angolan giraffe, sometimes called the Namibian giraffe, and the population has grown over the past three decades against a continental trend of decline. More than half of them live on private land rather than in national…

Keetmanshoop is the main town of southern Namibia and the practical base for the region, roughly 500 kilometres south of Windhoek on the B1. Visitors stop here for the Quiver Tree Forest and Giant's Playground just outside town, the Mesosaurus…

Namibia is a specialist birding destination rather than a numbers one, and a trip here is built around fourteen near-endemics and one true endemic rather than a species count. The awkward part is that the best birding runs November to…

A 14-day Namibia itinerary is the shortest trip that reaches the south, adding Fish River Canyon, Lüderitz and Kolmanskop to the standard circuit of Sossusvlei, the coast, Damaraland and Etosha. The full loop runs roughly 3,500 kilometres from Windhoek. Two…

Namibia holds more black rhino than any country on earth, with over 2,000 animals representing roughly a third of Africa's total and the great majority of the south-western subspecies. Etosha contains the world's largest single population, while the Kunene Region…

Namibia holds around 4,300 plant species and subspecies, of which more than a thousand occur exclusively or almost exclusively here. The welwitschia produces two leaves and keeps them for up to two thousand years. Quiver trees, nara melons, living stones…

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…