Category: Namibia

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…

Kolmanskop is an abandoned diamond mining town in southern Namibia where desert sand has poured through the doors and windows of German colonial houses and filled the rooms waist deep. It sits about 12 to 15 kilometres inland from Lüderitz…

A Namibia family safari itinerary works better than most African options because over 80 percent of the country carries little to no malaria risk and self driving lets you set the pace around children rather than a group schedule. The…

A 5-day Namibia itinerary works well provided you commit to one region rather than trying to loop the country. The strongest short route runs Windhoek, Sossusvlei and Swakopmund, covering the dunes and the Atlantic coast in around 1,100 kilometres. Trying…

Brandberg Mountain is Namibia's highest massif, a granite dome rising some 2,000 metres above the surrounding plains to the Königstein summit at 2,573 metres. It holds tens of thousands of San rock paintings including the famous White Lady in the…