Category: Namibia

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…

Khaudum National Park covers around 4,000 square kilometres of deep Kalahari sand on Namibia's Botswana border and receives fewer than 3,000 visitors a year. It is rated the second most productive park in the country for wildlife after Etosha, and…

A Namibia desert safari itinerary skips Etosha entirely and spends its time across three separate desert systems: the red Kalahari sands, the Namib dune sea and the fog belt on the Atlantic. The ten night route below runs Windhoek, the…

A 21-day Namibia road trip is the first length at which the whole country becomes reachable, adding Kaokoland and the Zambezi Region to the southern loop that a fortnight can just about manage. The full circuit runs 4,500 to 5,500…

Blue wildebeest form sizeable herds in Etosha and the surrounding conservancies, and they are visible all year because Namibia sits outside the Great Migration entirely. That spectacle belongs to the Serengeti and Mara system. Namibian wildebeest stay put, which means…

Dorob is the national park most visitors drive through without knowing it exists. It runs along the coast from the Kuiseb River to the Ugab, taking in Swakopmund, Henties Bay, Cape Cross and the salt road, and it needs no…

Grootfontein is the gateway to Namibia's northeast, the last substantial town before the long run east to Rundu and the Zambezi Region or northeast into Bushmanland and Khaudum. The Hoba Meteorite, the largest intact meteorite on earth, sits about 20…