Category: Namibia

Nkasa Rupara National Park is Namibia's largest protected wetland, around 320 square kilometres of channels, reed beds and islands where the Kwando River becomes the Linyanti at the southern tip of the Zambezi Region. It holds close to a thousand…

The Petrified Forest near Khorixas holds around fifty fossilised tree trunks lying in open veld, some up to 34 metres long, dating to roughly 260 to 280 million years ago. The trees did not grow here. They were carried in…

Sesriem Canyon is a narrow gorge about a kilometre long and up to 30 metres deep, cut by the Tsauchab River through sedimentary rock a few kilometres from the Sossusvlei gate. It is walkable on a self guided trail, needs…

Uis is a former tin mining town of around 3,600 people at the foot of Namibia's highest mountain. It was downgraded from village to settlement in 2010, which tells you what happened when the mine closed. It survives on passing…

The Windhoek to Swakopmund road trip runs about 360 kilometres west on the B2 through Okahandja, Karibib and Usakos, taking roughly four hours on tar the whole way. It is the easiest long drive in Namibia and works in any…

Nyae Nyae Conservancy covers around 8,992 square kilometres of Kalahari sandveld around Tsumkwe in northeastern Namibia and was the first communal conservancy registered in the country. It is home to the Ju/'hoansi San, who have lived here for thousands of…

Namibia is among the most photographed countries in Africa and almost all of it comes down to timing. Deadvlei needs the first ninety minutes after sunrise. Moon Valley is worthless at midday. The dunes flatten to grey between ten and…

Shark Island was a death camp and it is now a campsite. Between 1,032 and 3,000 Herero and Nama men, women and children died here between March 1905 and April 1907. The German garrison called it Death Island. Namibia declared…

Vingerklip is a 35 metre rock pillar standing on a hilltop above the Ugab Terraces in Damaraland, and since the collapse of the Finger of God in the south it has been the most famous rock formation in Namibia. It…

Windhoek is Namibia's capital and by far its largest city, sitting at around 1,700 metres in the Khomas Highlands near the geographic centre of the country. Nearly every Namibian trip starts and ends here, and most visitors give it a…