Journal · Namibia Self-Drive Safaris

Dispatches from the wild.

The roads of Africa teach you things that no guidebook can. Below are notes from our own journeys — practical guides, personal dispatches, and the kind of advice that only comes from having driven the route yourself.

Namibia · Destination Guide

Sossusvlei at Dawn: Why the First Light Changes Everything

A practical guide to self-driving Sossusvlei — which campsites to book, gate opening times, and how to have Deadvlei entirely to yourself before the tour buses arrive.

Botswana · 4WD Guide

Moremi & the Okavango: A Self-Drive Survival Guide

The tracks are rough, the crossings flooded and the rewards immense. Everything you need to know before driving Botswana's most remote reserves.

Planning · Wildlife

The Best Month to Self-Drive Each African Country

Rainfall, crowd levels, road conditions, and the Great Migration calendar — a month-by-month breakdown for Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and East Africa.

Namibia · History

Kolmanskop: How to Visit the Ghost Town Properly

The abandoned diamond mining town is one of Namibia's most photographed sites. Here is how to get the light you want, avoid the crowds, and understand what you are actually looking at.

Accommodation · Review

Why Wolwedans is the Most Extraordinary Camp in Africa

In the NamibRand Nature Reserve, 200,000 hectares of private wilderness, Wolwedans offers something that no national park can — complete silence and a sky undimmed by any light pollution.

Namibia · Wildlife

The Wild Horses of the Namib: Africa's Most Unlikely Herd

Near Aus, a herd of feral horses has survived in one of the harshest deserts on earth for over a century. We spent a morning with them at the waterhole.

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