Namibia Road Trip - 10 Days - Alone with a pop-up tent
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ธ.ค. 2020
- 10 day Namibia road trip itinerary, starting in South Africa - 5800km - alone.
Please note that I started in Johannesburg. It all depends on where you start and if you travel clockwise, anti-clockwise, zig-zag or whatever :P
My route was as follows:
1. Johannesburg to Upington: 786km, 8h 20 min.
Kalahari Monate Lodge (SA) is your best bet for an all right camping experience. It is out of town which is nice. If you come from Jhb, drive through Botsuana if it’s not Covid times - a lot shorter!
2. Upington to Nakop Border Control (Ariamsvlei): 131km, 1h 35min. From there to Hobas: 266km, 3h 19 min.
Hobas is the entry point to the Fish River Canyon. I loved the Hobas Campsite, but the Canyon Roadhouse is a funky and amazing place to stay. PLEASE do not just go to the Canyon viewpoint but EXPLORE THE CANYON TO THE RIGHT AND LEFT. There are no signs & it is easy to miss some stunning views. The rocky outcrops to either side will catapult you into trying to grasp the sheer scale of the canyon - you'll feel tiny in the best way possible.
I did not stop here but check out Luderitz and Kolmanskop - the ghost town. It is so worth it!
3. Hobas to Sesriem: 551km, 6h 43 min.
Sesriem Campsite is all right, but I stayed at the Oshana Campsite and I LOVED IT.
I stayed for two nights but could have easily stayed longer. It is a bit more expensive but the better choice - also inside the park! You can also stay just past Soltaire at Moon Mountain Lodge - an hour drive from park entrance and two hours from Deadvlei and Sossusvlei. There is also Sossus Oasis for camping outside the park. From the park gates, it's about 1 hour to drive along a tarred road to a 2 wheel-drive parking area. Then pick up the National Parks 4x4 which will take you to Deadvlei and the more popular dunes. I drove myself. PLEASE CLIMB THE BIG DADDY DUNE! THE VIEW IS THE BEST WOW THING EVER. AND YES, YOU CAN RUN DOWN FROM THE TOP IN THE END !!!! Otherwise, climb Dune 45 for sunrise (more accessible and closer to the gates) and just explore.
I climbed on some other dune right behind the gate. Speak to people and gain insights - always the best guide.
4. Sesriem to Swakopmund: 348km, 4h 8 min.
On the way to Swakopmund, there is the Tropic of Capricorn Photo Opportunity…don’t worry if you miss it…I did :D…oh and stop at Solitaire (closer to Sesriem) to fuel up and take photos of the abandoned cars. There is sooo much to do in Swakopmund. Check out the tourist and tour options! I stayed in a backpackers that had just opened up again. I was their first guest :D But there is a camping place, too. Cool for the weekend and some beers. You'll meet Germans.
5. Swakopmund via Cape Cross to Spitzkoppe: 119km, 1h 16min & 154km, 2h 8 min.
The world’s largest breeding colony of Cape fur seals is on the way. Stop if you are interested. For me it was just death, death and more death…sadly. If you breathe through your nose, you’ll be fine. Spitzkoppe Camping is super beautiful but very remote. Make sure you plan for no electricity and have enough water and fuel. You can take a shower at reception and they give you a map. Explore and snap some photos at the Rock Archway. There are boulders, a unique landscape, ancient rock art and plenty of campsites that are apart from one another and wild.
6. Spitzkoppe to Etosha: 502km, 5h 38 min. It depends on where in Etosha you want to go.
The roads in Etosha suck and there are no little drives or nice loops… Personally, I have had better experiences in more diverse environments in other parks in Africa. Visiting is a personal choice though. I enjoyed Okaukuejo more than Halali camp. They both have a waterhole though.
Check out Northern Namibia, visiting an indigenous Himba village (done right), other things to do in Damaraland etc. The Caprivi Strip is also still on my list. You need a proper 4x4 though.
I was also told that the Waterberg Plateau National Park is a nice place to stop.
7. Etosha to Windhoek: 501km, 5h 14 min.
The Urban Camp is a lovely, safe place to camp in the city. Visit Joe’s Beerhouse around the corner!!! Personally, I only stopped in Windhoek due to the need on the way back.
8. Windhoek back to Nakop Border Control: 838km, 8h 35 min & Nakop Border to Upington: 132 km 1h 31 min. This is a very long drive and I recommend another stop. I did it in one go…but I am crazy.
9. Upington to Jhb: 795 km, 8h30 min. You save all that with a different starting point.
Important: Roads in Namibia are dangerous. Know your car and how to drive off-road. Be prepared for eventualities. Always fill up when you see a fuel station. Carry lots of water, fuel (I did not need them but had two jerry cans), jumpers, knives and pepper spray, tools, extra tires, puncture kit, towing rope (if you can afford it or rent a car, you’ll have roadside assistance), sand tracks, a satellite phone (I did not have that but would recommend), portable tire inflator...
If I can do it, everyone can!
Happy Travels!
This has to be the most authentic travel vlog i have seen for Namibia so far
thank you 😊
This proves all you need is a Subaru and a pop up tent. Well done!
Exactly. In my case i didn't carry a tent i simply removed all the behind seats and i put a mattress in there and i slept in there😀😀, i was on road for 2 good months of adventure... Simplicity is the trick... I loved each piece of this video too, its incredible
Just found your channel. Much respect for doing this trip! Hope to see more. Wishing you every success with this channel. Live your dream!!
Such a great video, so well done. I love Namibia and this takes me back there. I can't wait to return. Thank you
Thank you 💫
As a Namibian I was so proud to watch your video. Thanks for showing our country in such a beautiful light. I've been so scared to travel on my own but seeing this, I'm Def inspired to start. Thank you♥️
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Attitude, that's the secret. Yours is beautiful. A lifetime ago I cycled most of your route. On another trip we climbed the tallest dune at Sossusvlei. We lugged a large format camera complete with heavy silver plates up. We spent a night on the top as the plan was to take pictures of the sunrise. It rained for the first time in fifty years. No photos and it took weeks to get the water and sand out of the camera. Fantastic!
This put a big smile on my face ✨ What an awesome story!
So many rude and unnecessary comments.
I did enjoy your video. It was very wholesome.😊
Beautiful on so many levels.
Awesome trip and great video
I've toured Namibia many times before but still love to watch videos about it!
Love your spirit! Epic trip!!
Amazing to see how she enjoyed this trip.
Wow you did this alone... amazing
Stunning thank you for sharing your experience .
Most enjoyable, thank you.
God bless,
Dave
Go Girl! Amazing, you managed to distilled the essence of magical Namibia into twenty-five minutes of video 👍
I am impressed with your adventure. Very impressed
This was really lovely to watch
Incredible brave girl really enjoying your episode cant wait for the next one safe journey 🌈
Dave x
Great video! Travelling with you there would be no arguing of what music we would be listening to. Heading to Namibia in November and look forward to going to the places you visited, thanks for the tour. Stay Wild!
That was a pretty touch trip regarding distance! Wow. Happy to see you`ve enjoyed our beautiful country.
That’s a great video, a few of us did nearly the exact same trip on motorcycles a few years ago. What a beautiful country and it’s people and very hospitable. OutJo fuel station on the right brought back memories ... a great trip through farming country to Omaruru, then onto Swakopmund, two weeks in total we spent touring and ended our trip in Cape Town. Thanks for sharing, Stay safe.
Wonderful and authentic - keep up the good work!✌️
Thank you for your video, this country looks so beautiful and quiet. I'm going to do a roadtrip there next month, I can't wait 🤩
Great video. Apple pie in Solitaire? The top of Big Daddy at sunrise I know this loneliness and excitement that you will never forget and cannot capture
Very nice video. Love your enthusiasm and courage.
Once did an Africa Road Trip and drove down a Namibian Road. Their roads are straight roads. They are straight for up to ten kilometres or more in some sections. Their roads are quiet. Not much traffic because Namibia has a very low population density. Namibia is a good place to visit. I would recommend it for anyone ! Thank you for uploading this well researched and well documented Namibia Road Trip Video. Amazing !
BRIIIILIANT I absolutely smaak your video - keep them coming
Thanks for a great peek at Namibia
I love Africa through bloggers. I wish to visit South Africa and Namibia..I hope so..I liked your blog very much.
isnt it mad how the Namibian sand seems to get into your veins and capture your heart? With huge skies and open plains and vast amounts of nothingness yet so full and fascinating and enduring, the isolation from other humans, you can literally feel you finding your inner self. Namibia is stupifyingly beautiful in ways that words cannot explain, it must be experienced. I have been overlanding Namibia for over a decade and just cannot get enough, you have somehow captured just some of that beauty in this video......well fucking done Girl!
Thank you for these words. The best feeling is if you cannot get enough 😍
EXELLENT idea sweety, WELL DONE, totally enjoyable!
What an amazing adventure! Thank you for inspiring me :)
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Work with a chef from Namibia, great to see it in all its beauty, great video 🤗
Great job.. keep up the good work, and we need some more videos..
Thank you from Alaska
What a great trip, fantastic country - a place where you can really feel free and at peace.
Yeah! The type of freedom we can soak up to keep us going for so so long... :)
Really cool! I go in October again! 🙌🏻
Salutes to your courage mam. Never seen such a nicely presented video. Awesome wilderness.
You are LIVING girl! Maximum enjoy. 💥🤙🏻
Wow Henni Namibia is amazing one of the gems on Africa🤩
Some day I shall indulge in self drive safari ☺️
Thank you for sharing.
Much from uk 🇬🇧
Viewing from Hobart Tas. Loved the rawness. Completely enthralled by your vlog. Much love and wishing all the best in your travels.
Wow, that's a stunning place to be. Thank you so much ☀️
O'h my gosh i love every bit of this video
I watched This in amazement as i look forward to going through Namibia on my trans Africa trip, i will be on my way driving up north to Morocco...
This is a great description of how I'd enjoy Namibia. Thanks for this one
Wow that's awesome. I wish you an amazing trip !! ✨
That was awesome... Well done...
Glad to see your adventures thanks for sharing. Appreciate the description, hoping I can do this trip sometime soon.
:) I wish you an awesome trip
What an awesome video. Definately subscribed. Thank you, keep it real 👍
Great Vid'.... my wife and I did almost exactly the same trip in 2017 - great memories - thanks !
Our favourite place was Spitzkoppe - such beauty at sunset.
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Magical place
Thanks for sharing.
I intend to do an 8 days solo bike packing.
Your video is very helpful to my planning. 🙏
Cool images, love the ostrich chicks!
Super fun video. I feel like I was traveling alongside you.
Beautiful playlist. Beautiful vlog.. and you are pretty too👌👌
Real awesome footage 👌🏾👌🏾and well done on driving all those roads in a Small car.....Most people would only attempt it in a 4x4
I would have been terrified in the tent alone……well done.
Amazing girl. I go to Namibia every year for the last ten years.
It's nearly 40 years since I visited Namibia and I had the same wide-eyed wonder as you. Despite all the amazing places I've been to since it's still one of my favourites.
Go girl . Keep moving and enjoy .
always 💪🏼
Wow! Thanks so much for taking us with you!!! Some seriously beautiful kilometers. If you want some of that solo road, but colder, try Canada! :)
Thank you, I'd love to explore there 😊🏞️
Glad you could enjoy what our country had to offer..
Lucky you, fearlelss you.I do enjoy traveling solo, but then i do worry of being isolated.The views you had there are priceless, i appreciate you sharing this with us,new friend here and looking forward to your future adventures.
Thank you ❤
Hey Girl you are my hero. So cool. Thanks you for sharing
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I grew up in Namibia and some areas is only sand but certain places is beautiful and a sight to see, glad you had the opportunity to travel around
I think love the sand the most 🙂
@@storypioneer i am glad you have made your road trip and experience something different. Be safe and take care
Brave young lady you are a wonderful example to humanity.
Beautiful 😍, Land of the brave. You should come to Kavango River next time...
Supercool!!🎉
OMG... be still my beating heart ❤. Thank you, hope to be in NAM shortly..... you're inspirational. Cheers from Calgary Alberta Canada 🇨🇦
Thank you!
Girl, I please need your playlist. Great video
I enjoyed watching this. Power to you for forging the road on your own and with being so quiet and all. 💪🏼. Hope you do Botswana next. Another amazingly Vast and beautiful place. But I recommend a roof top tent.
Yes, Botswana is definitely the next one on the list!! I've camped on a square boat before - on the Okavango. But I didn't make it to the actual Delta, so I have to go back big time 😁 It might take a while but I can't wait for that one !! The schoobi with a roof top tent would do justice to my idea of world conquest 😏
Next time you're here and want to visit traditional sites I'm the guy 👍🏽
Beautiful video.
I'm namibian and I'm subscribing right away
Beautiful place and you as well
What a cool journey. As much as I enjoyed your route I enjoyed your reaction and pleasure much more. Funny where you stopped for a pee I did that too many, many years ago more or less where you stopped, excepting then my vehicle refused to start. (Starter motor had burnt out.) Some gemsbok had a good laugh at my frustration!
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Beautiful video
Awsome girl! I had a business in Swakopmund in the early 80's. Travelled the road from Capetown to Swakop about 7 times
Seven awesome journeys 😍
Very nice.lovely enjoy.
Liked and subscribed 👍
Thank you for showing our beautiful country Namibia in how it should be seen & experienced. Next time call on us at Hentiesbay and we'll (wife & I) will take you on an off-road trip to experience Damaraland. You can just ask for Mr. John when you get to Hentiesbay on your next trip. Just love your energy. Rgds John
I'd love that! See you in the future 🚙☀️
Love it
Love your sense of adventure :) You rock !! Been doing the same for a long time :)
Love that 💪🏼❤
@@storypioneer Are you planning anytime in future similar around Namibia?
@@eugeneaylward6657 I would love to and I will! There's sooo much more to discover in Namibia. It's a place that touches the best parts of every traveler's soul. Unfortunately, I am in Europe at the moment :(
I'd be in Namib in November...
This is my area, I have been working in the south of Namibia for 12 years, you had fun visit Namibia 🇳🇦
This is inspiring
I like it ❤
Nice trip 👌
Danke für die Inspiration. Werde deine Route im Dezember nach fahren.
Viel Spaß für deine Entdeckungsreise 😍
Awesome.
Beautiful country
Be there in May. South from Tiras mountains close to Aus to North in two weeks. Hoping to reach Kunene before turning back and down southwest side through Puros and then coastline back to Swakop. Maybe see you out there.
Wow i love your vlog❤ makes me want to do it. But not alone though 🙈
Your car and its tyres are awesome to run without problems in that hot weather and stoney roads and desert
I love this car. And it has 350000 km now.
Great vid
I like to imagine standing at the viewpoint during the time those canyons were formed witnessing the torrent of water carving through the earth...
Nature seems so quits ... But actually its saying so much ... Its all about connecting with the nature ... I can understand your love towards the wild more than to the human civilization ... And yes your taste to the music is so good ... I also love the same but sometimes dont know where to get it 😜 ... Blessings and love to you for your future trips
I love this. I know the music issue :D I always make playlists relating to the people I meet. Thank you :)
This shows u meet beautiful people around ... Becuz your music in vedios is so soothing nd lovely ... Nd yes its also a fact ... when Beauty lies in the person's eyes the whole world seems beautiful ... Which is actually beautiful ...
Its nice to see you and the beauty around through your vedios ...😊😊😊
@@storypioneer your most welcome and thank you also for so beautiful shots with your happy Beautiful face 😊 ... Got so much Positive vibes 😊
Hi. Doing Nam since 1989 once a year, luv fishing and wild life. CoVid put a stop to it but very soon I'm going again. You very brave lady to travel alone.
I hope you will go again soon :)
Respect 👊🏻
Two Years later, TH-cam recommends this video again. And I am watching it. Hey, we may not be many subscribers but we love watching your content
wow, quite a trip to do on your own, but then time is your own. Great car to do it in too, although i will do it in my 80 series. Could hear a bit of an accent in there, obviously German hey..lol. Must be 18 years ago, i was in those places, be good to do a trip there again. thanks for the memories:-)
It's always just a decision away, after all. 80 series sounds awesome! I hope you'll go again soon :-)
I am your 300 subscriber ,, love from Pakistan 😍🥰
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That's good to travel around
Absolutely amazing your trip. All alone in the middle of nowhere! I've been to most of those places too, that beauty is hard to realize in a clip but you nailed it! Cheers from Luderitz (heading back home on saturday)
Thank you :)
Enjoy 😍
I loved everything about this I would like to go there too from Limpopo which entry of border did you use ? And all the stopping points?or any advice
:) if you click the little arrow below the video, I put a detailed description of everything there! I went through Nakop Border Control. But Botswana should be quicker - if Covid allows.
Wonderfull film watching from india.👍👍
Ha. Looks like fun!:) Miss NAM.
:)