Category: Namibia

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…

Namibia has the lowest rainfall in sub-Saharan Africa and a daily temperature swing that catches everyone out. A day at Sossusvlei in June can reach the mid twenties and the same night can drop below freezing. The coast stays around…

Ostriches are the largest and heaviest birds on earth, reaching 2.8 metres and up to 150 kilograms, and they roam wild across Etosha, the Namib gravel plains and most of the open country between. They sprint at up to 70…

Sable and roan are the two antelope Namibian conservationists went to most trouble to save. Waterberg Plateau Park was proclaimed to breed and maintain them alongside tsessebe, and the sandstone cliffs that make the plateau inaccessible from below are what…

Springbok are the most numerous antelope in Namibia and one of very few African mammals whose population is growing rather than shrinking, with somewhere between 1.4 and 2.5 million across southern Africa. They are named for pronking, the stiff legged…

Namibia's wildlife is defined by aridity rather than abundance. Game densities are lower than East Africa, and what the country holds instead are animals doing something difficult: desert adapted elephant and lion, free roaming black rhino, and the largest cheetah…