Travel and hiking adventures
Namibia gets under your skin in a way few places do. It’s a surreal landscape of endless horizons, rust-red dunes, and wildlife roaming through ancient deserts. After sorting out the practicalities of our road trip, this Namibia self-drive itinerary is the exact, unfiltered 14-day route we followed from Etosha down to Sossusvlei, with realistic driving times, where we stayed, and the mistakes we’d fix if we did it again.
Namibia had been on my list ever since I saw a surreal photo of dead trees in a white pan, surrounded by orange dunes. It looked like a place that doesn’t exist. Then my dentist mentioned one day that he’d seen lions in Etosha National Park, and the wait was over. My boyfriend (who’d sworn off Africa) gave in surprisingly easily: “Fine, book it, I’ll deal with the car.” If you’re planning a Namibia self-drive road trip and don’t want a copy-paste guide from a tour operator, here’s everything you need to know: visas, costs, food, safety, and the mistakes we made so you don’t have to.
I bet every tourist who plans a self-drive trip to Namibia asks himself the same question: Is Windhoek worth visiting? Having read the reviews, we decided to give the capital of Namibia a chance. Originally, we booked one night in Windhoek, but we ended up staying there for 2. Not because of its charm, but because we saved one extra day in case anything went wrong during our Namibia road trip. The city is nothing special, however you can find some very good spots to easily spend a day or two. In this post you will find our top 5 things to do in Windhoek in one day.
