Category: Namibia

Botswana delivers more animals; Namibia delivers more country. That is the honest summary and everything else follows from it. Botswana costs considerably more and concentrates on wildlife. Namibia costs a fraction as much, can be self driven, and offers desert,…

The Orange forms the entire southern border of Namibia and it is the only river in the country you can safely get into. Crocodiles are absent from most of the Namibian stretch, which makes multi day canoe trips possible in…

Namibia has no perennial river that both rises and ends within its own borders. Every river that flows year round is a boundary with another country. Everything in the interior is ephemeral, running for a handful of days a year…

Sossusvlei is a clay and salt pan ringed by red dunes in southern Namibia, and it is the country's most visited desert destination. Visitors reach it through Sesriem gate, drive 60 kilometres of tarred road into the dune sea, then…

Where to stay in Etosha comes down to one decision before any other: inside the park fence or outside it. Namibia Wildlife Resorts runs six rest camps within the boundary, three of them with floodlit waterholes available to guests all…

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…