Category: Namibia

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…

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…

Skeleton Coast National Park protects roughly 16,000 square kilometres of fog bound Atlantic shoreline running from the Ugab River north to the Kunene at the Angolan border. The southern third is open to self drivers holding a permit, while everything…

The Walvis Bay Lagoon is a Ramsar listed wetland holding tens of thousands of flamingos and one of the most important shorebird sites in southern Africa, sheltered behind the sand spit of Pelican Point. The peninsula carries a lighthouse and…

Namibia holds two of the world's three zebra species, and one of them is close to being a Namibian animal. Hartmann's mountain zebra is around 95 percent near-endemic to Namibia, living on the rocky escarpment of the west. Burchell's plains…

Okahandja is the ceremonial centre of the Herero nation and the largest craft market in Namibia, an hour north of Windhoek on the road to Etosha. Every August, Herero from across the country gather here to march to the graves…

The Quiver Tree Forest is a natural stand of around 250 quiver trees growing on dolerite about 14 kilometres northeast of Keetmanshoop in southern Namibia. It is a declared national monument, nothing in it was planted, and the oldest trees…