Namibia

Etosha, meaning ‘place of dry water’, is located in northern Namibia and one of the country’s most famous and biggest national parks, established in 1907.  The park is dominated by the desert salt pan, roughly 130km in length and 50km…

One of the most scenic regions in Namibia, Damaraland, has a dramatic landscape of red-hued mountains, enormous granite koppies (hills) and wide, open, sandy plains. It lies south of Etosha National Park and north of Swakopmund. It’s home to a…

At the top of Namibia, between Angola and Botswana, you’ll find an oddly-shaped panhandle, called the Caprivi Strip. It’s covered by permanent water and starts at the Kavango River in the east. It then follows the Zambezi River all the…

Thanks to a brilliant stroke of German planning, the capital city, Windhoek, is located in the middle of the country. With a population of around 200 000, it’s a really tiny capital by global standards, making it just the right…

The coastline between where the Kunene and Ugab rivers open into the Atlantic, is known as the Skeleton Coast. The name is often used for the entire desert coastline, even as far south as Lüderitz. The coastal parks consist of…

Home to some truly bizarre forms of life, much of the 80 – 250km-wide Namib Desert is situated within the Namib-Naukluft Park. This is one of the largest national parks in Africa. In fact, Namib means ‘vast’ in the Nama…

About Namibia Wedged between the South Atlantic and the Kalahari, the beautiful Namibia harbours the world’s oldest desert, the highest sand dunes, and one of the most notorious coasts to shippers, aptly named Skeleton Coast. It’s one of the world’s…