Category: Namibia

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…

Katima Mulilo sits on the Zambezi River at the far eastern tip of Namibia, well over 1,200 kilometres from Windhoek, closer to Lusaka and Harare than to its own capital. It is the regional capital of the Zambezi Region and…

Namib-Naukluft National Park is Africa's largest national park, covering close to 50,000 square kilometres of western Namibia in four distinct sections: the dunes at Sossusvlei and Sesriem, the Naukluft mountains, the gravel plains of the Namib section, and the Sandwich…

Namibia has recorded somewhere between 645 and 700 bird species, of which around 515 breed here. Only one is a true endemic, the dune lark of the Namib sand sea, but a further fourteen or so near-endemics are far easier…

Namibia's desert-adapted elephants are ordinary African savanna elephants whose behaviour has changed to survive in country receiving under 100 millimetres of rain a year. Roughly 150 remain, spread across five dry riverbeds in the northwest. They cover the largest home…

Namibia has four ways of getting around and most visitors should self drive. The country has good tar between main centres, graded gravel elsewhere and almost no traffic. Public transport exists and does not serve the places tourists go. Flying…

Katutura was created by forced removal and its name says so. It is frequently translated as the place where we do not want to live, which is what the people relocated there called it. Most of Windhoek's population lives in…