Category: Namibia

Namibia holds around 24,000 African elephants and the population has grown at roughly 5 percent a year for three decades, which runs directly counter to the continental trend. The great majority live in the northeast rather than in Etosha or…

Two people can travel Namibia properly on 200 to 300 US dollars a day between them, covering vehicle, fuel, campsites, park fees and food. The country rewards budget travel more than most African destinations because the best experiences are position…

The eland is the largest antelope in Africa and one of over twenty antelope species in Namibia, which range from this animal down to the Damara dik dik. Bulls can exceed 900 kilograms and still clear a two metre fence…

Namibia has three serious multi day trails and a great many good day walks, and the constraint on all of them is heat. The Fish River Canyon trail runs only from May to mid September. The Naukluft trail is regarded…

Lions in Namibia occur in three main areas: Etosha National Park, which holds the country's largest population, the Zambezi Region parks in the northeast, and the arid Kunene in the northwest. Etosha is where nearly all visitors see them, with…

A private guided trip costs roughly 30 to 40 percent more than self driving and buys you not having to think about anything. One documented self drive couple covered ten days for 2,637 US dollars, about 264 a day for…

Ai-Ais is a hot spring resort at the southern end of Fish River Canyon, where sulphurous water emerges at the canyon floor and feeds thermal baths and heated pools. The name means burning water in Nama. It marks the end…

Bwabwata National Park covers around 6,270 square kilometres along the length of the Caprivi Strip between the Okavango and Kwando rivers, making it the largest of Namibia's northeastern parks. It is unusual in that roughly 5,000 people live inside it,…

Epupa Falls is a series of cascades where the Kunene River drops through a rocky gorge on the Angolan border, spread across a stretch roughly a kilometre and a half wide with the main drop around 37 metres. It sits…

The Hoba Meteorite near Grootfontein is the largest intact meteorite ever found on earth and the largest naturally occurring piece of iron known on the planet's surface, weighing around 60 tonnes. It fell roughly 80,000 years ago and has never…