Category: Namibia

The best time to visit Namibia is the dry season from May to October, with July through September the strongest window for wildlife and the most comfortable for walking and dune climbing. Travellers wanting fewer people and lower rates do…

Namibia was the first African country to write environmental protection into its constitution, and it went further by giving rural communities legal rights over the wildlife on their own land. Around 87 communal conservancies now cover roughly a fifth of…

Fish River Canyon is a gorge roughly 160 kilometres long, up to 27 kilometres wide and around 550 metres deep in southern Namibia, widely described as the largest canyon in Africa. Day visitors see it from rim viewpoints near Hobas,…

Kamanjab is the crossroads of northwestern Namibia, the point where routes to Etosha's western gate, Damaraland, the Kunene and the coast separate. It is a small farming settlement with fuel, a shop and guest farms, and its value is entirely…

Moon Valley and the Welwitschia Drive form a half day circuit inland of Swakopmund through the Namib section of Namib-Naukluft National Park, taking in an eroded valley of bare rounded hills and a plain holding welwitschia plants over a thousand…

A photography trip to Namibia is a scheduling problem before it is anything else. The country's best subjects each have a window of ninety minutes or less, and the difference between a dedicated photographic itinerary and a normal one is…

Sossusvlei works in every month and the hour matters more than the season. April, May, September and October are the sweet spots. Winter gives clear skies and mornings near freezing. Summer brings heat above 40 degrees and storm cloud the…

Damaraland is a region of red rock, flat topped mountains and dry riverbeds in northwestern Namibia, holding the largest free roaming black rhino population on earth and the country's first UNESCO World Heritage site at Twyfelfontein. It sits between the…

Namibia offers two entirely separate fisheries and most visitors only hear about one. The Atlantic coast delivers world class shore angling for kabeljou, steenbras and shark, sustained by the Benguela current. A thousand kilometres northeast, the Zambezi and Kwando hold…

Kaokoland is the remotest part of Namibia reachable by road, a mountainous stretch of the Kunene Region running north to the Angolan border where the Himba still live largely as they have for centuries. Opuwo is the only real supply…