A vast salt pan ringed by waterholes that concentrate elephant, rhino, lion and giraffe in the dry season. Waterhole viewing at night from the eastern and central camps is uniquely productive.
This region is covered in depth on the Namibia guide — seasons, pricing tiers, wildlife and itineraries. Price a trip with the estimator.
The other regions.
Sossusvlei & the Namib
The world’s highest sand dunes rise from the oldest desert on earth. Sunrise on the dunes and the clay pan of Deadvlei a…
Desert-adapted elephant and rhino, geologyDamaraland & Kaokoland
Ancient granite, petrified forests and dry riverbeds where desert-adapted elephants and free-roaming black rhino are tra…
Fog, shipwrecks, seal colonies, isolationSkeleton Coast
Where the Namib meets the Atlantic. Fly-in camps in the far north offer a genuinely otherworldly experience: fog banks, …
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