Category: Namibia

East Africa has the animals and Namibia has the country. The Serengeti and the Mara hold densities and a migration Namibia cannot match. Namibia offers desert, dunes, a shipwreck coast and self driving at a fraction of the cost. For…

Two geological oddities sit within sight of each other about six kilometres east of Twyfelfontein. The Organ Pipes are a 100 metre stretch of four metre dolerite columns in a small gorge. Burnt Mountain is a ridge of shale that…

Ruacana is Namibia's largest waterfall and it is dry most of the year. At 107 metres high and up to 700 metres wide in flood it ranks among Africa's largest by volume and width. A hydroelectric station above it diverts…

Closing a place to people for a century turns out to be an effective conservation method. The Sperrgebiet was sealed off in 1908 to protect diamonds and inadvertently protected one of the world's great biodiversity hotspots. It holds around 1,050…

Four properties sit inside the Sesriem gate and they are the only accommodation that lets you reach the dunes before sunrise. The inner gate opens an hour before the outer one. That single hour is the difference between photographing Deadvlei…

These two cost roughly the same and offer entirely different trips. A 19 day Namibian self drive and a 23 day South African one both start around 3,200 US dollars per person sharing. South Africa gives you cities, wine, coast…

The oryx, known in Namibia by its Afrikaans name gemsbok, is the country's national animal and appears on the coat of arms. It is the large antelope you will see standing in full sun on open gravel where nothing else…

Rundu is Namibia's second largest town, sitting on the Okavango River with Angola on the far bank, and it is the gateway to the Caprivi Strip. The Kavango region it serves is the most densely populated part of Namibia and…

Spitzkoppe is a group of bald granite peaks rising some 700 metres out of flat gravel plains in western Namibia, often called the Matterhorn of Namibia. Visitors come for the rock arch, San paintings at Bushman's Paradise, guided hikes and…

Namibia holds over 1,400 white rhino, the second largest population in the world after South Africa, and every one of them descends from animals reintroduced after the species was hunted to extinction here. The first sixteen arrived at Waterberg from…