Category: Namibia

Okahandja is the ceremonial centre of the Herero nation and the largest craft market in Namibia, an hour north of Windhoek on the road to Etosha. Every August, Herero from across the country gather here to march to the graves…

The Quiver Tree Forest is a natural stand of around 250 quiver trees growing on dolerite about 14 kilometres northeast of Keetmanshoop in southern Namibia. It is a declared national monument, nothing in it was planted, and the oldest trees…

Skeleton Coast National Park protects roughly 16,000 square kilometres of fog bound Atlantic shoreline running from the Ugab River north to the Kunene at the Angolan border. The southern third is open to self drivers holding a permit, while everything…

The Walvis Bay Lagoon is a Ramsar listed wetland holding tens of thousands of flamingos and one of the most important shorebird sites in southern Africa, sheltered behind the sand spit of Pelican Point. The peninsula carries a lighthouse and…

Namibia holds two of the world's three zebra species, and one of them is close to being a Namibian animal. Hartmann's mountain zebra is around 95 percent near-endemic to Namibia, living on the rocky escarpment of the west. Burchell's plains…

Namibia safari lodges range from government run rest camps inside the national parks to private desert camps charging well over a thousand US dollars per person per night. The choice that matters most is whether a property sits inside a…

Okonjima is a 220 square kilometre private reserve south of Otjiwarongo in central Namibia, home of the AfriCat Foundation and the country's longest running leopard monitoring project. Guided tracking with collared cats gives sighting odds no national park can match.…

The red hartebeest is the most awkward looking antelope in Namibia and one of the fastest. High shoulders, a steeply sloping back and a long narrow face give it a build that appears wrong until it runs. It occurs in…

Hundreds of vessels lie along the Skeleton Coast, wrecked by fog, offshore rocks and a current that pushes ships onto a shore with no harbour for a thousand kilometres. The Eduard Bohlen now sits 800 metres inland as the desert…

Walvis Bay is Namibia's only deepwater port and the site of one of Africa's most important coastal wetlands, a Ramsar listed lagoon holding tens of thousands of flamingos. Visitors come for marine cruises to the Pelican Point seal colony, kayaking,…