Category: Namibia

Namibia safari lodges range from government run rest camps inside the national parks to private desert camps charging well over a thousand US dollars per person per night. The choice that matters most is whether a property sits inside a…

Okonjima is a 220 square kilometre private reserve south of Otjiwarongo in central Namibia, home of the AfriCat Foundation and the country's longest running leopard monitoring project. Guided tracking with collared cats gives sighting odds no national park can match.…

The red hartebeest is the most awkward looking antelope in Namibia and one of the fastest. High shoulders, a steeply sloping back and a long narrow face give it a build that appears wrong until it runs. It occurs in…

Hundreds of vessels lie along the Skeleton Coast, wrecked by fog, offshore rocks and a current that pushes ships onto a shore with no harbour for a thousand kilometres. The Eduard Bohlen now sits 800 metres inland as the desert…

Walvis Bay is Namibia's only deepwater port and the site of one of Africa's most important coastal wetlands, a Ramsar listed lagoon holding tens of thousands of flamingos. Visitors come for marine cruises to the Pelican Point seal colony, kayaking,…

A Namibia self drive camping itinerary is built around campsites rather than distances, because the best pitches in the country sit inside park gates that lodges cannot reach. The route below runs fourteen nights from Windhoek through Sesriem, the coast,…

Omaruru is Namibia's arts town and the site of its first winery, a settlement of around 14,000 people strung along a usually dry riverbed lined with camel thorns, halfway between Swakopmund and Etosha. Kristall Kellerei began operating in 1990, the…

Rehoboth is an hour south of Windhoek and holds one of the more unusual histories in southern Africa. The Baster community settled here in 1870, wrote their own constitution in 1872, and governed themselves under it for over a century…

Namibia's four small antelope are the ones everyone drives past. The Damara dik dik stands 35 centimetres and weighs five kilograms. The klipspringer walks on the tips of hooves that work like rubber grips and can stand with all four…

Warthogs are among the most frequently seen animals in Etosha and among the least photographed, which is a mistake. Namibia holds the southern subspecies of the common warthog, which kneels on padded wrists to graze, reverses into burrows so its…