Namibia holidays

Namibia is the most photogenic landscape country in Africa — the red Sossusvlei dunes at sunrise (some of the tallest in the world, the dead-tree forest at Deadvlei is one of the planet's most-photographed scenes), the wildlife of Etosha National Park (concentrated at waterholes in dry season for outstanding game viewing), the desolation of the Skeleton Coast with its shipwrecks and Cape fur seal colonies, the German-colonial seafront town of Swakopmund, and the surreal Damaraland with its desert-adapted elephants and the Twyfelfontein rock-art (UNESCO).

Namibia is famously easy to self-drive — paved roads are excellent, gravel roads are well-maintained, and a 4x4 with rooftop tent (Britz, Bushlore, Avis) is the classic adventure-camping rig. Classic 14-day self-drive: Windhoek (1 night) → Sossusvlei (2 nights for sunrise dune climb) → Swakopmund (2 nights) → Damaraland (2 nights, desert elephants, rock art) → Etosha NP (3 nights at Okaukuejo and Halali rest camps for waterhole game viewing) → Waterberg Plateau (1 night) → return. Lodge-based travellers can do this same route at higher comfort: Wolwedans for Sossusvlei, Mowani for Damaraland, Onguma for Etosha.