Category: Namibia

A Namibia wildlife safari itinerary looks nothing like the standard tourist circuit, because it drops Sossusvlei and the coast entirely and spends the time on animals instead. The eleven night route below runs Okonjima, four nights at Etosha, rhino tracking…

Otjiwarongo is the junction town of northern Namibia, sitting where the roads to Etosha, Waterberg and Damaraland separate, and almost every visitor passes through it. Its name means the place of fat cattle in Otjiherero. The Cheetah Conservation Fund, the…

Sandwich Harbour is a coastal wetland roughly 50 kilometres south of Walvis Bay where the dunes of the Namib run straight into the Atlantic. It sits inside Namib-Naukluft National Park, is Ramsar listed, and is reached only by guided 4x4…

Namibia has some of the darkest skies on earth, and the NamibRand Nature Reserve holds Gold Tier International Dark Sky Reserve status, the first in Africa. Almost no artificial light, exceptionally dry air and 300 clear days a year produce…

Windhoek needs one day and rewards two. Most travellers treat it as an airport with a hotel attached, which misses the only place in Namibia where the country's history is laid out in a walkable few blocks. The Independence Memorial…

Namibia is one of the easiest African countries to travel with children, mainly because most of it carries little to no malaria risk and because self driving lets you set the pace entirely around them. The constraints are lodge minimum…

Outjo is the last fuel before Etosha's Andersson Gate, 108 kilometres south of the park on the C38, and that single fact is why every visitor entering from the south passes through it. It is a small farming town with…

Some of Namibia's best sights can only be seen from the air. The Eduard Bohlen shipwreck, now 800 metres inland in restricted diamond country, is reachable no other way. Coastal flights from Swakopmund run around N$3,500 to N$4,500 per person…

Swakopmund is Namibia's adventure capital and the reason is geography: an enormous dune belt on one side and the Atlantic on the other, with a town of under 50,000 people in between. Sandboarding, quad biking and tandem skydiving are the…

The Windhoek to Etosha road trip runs around 415 to 440 kilometres north on tar to Andersson Gate, taking four and a half to five and a half hours of driving before stops. The route follows the B1 through Okahandja,…