TRAVELLING IN NAMIBIA

One of the fastest growing tourist destinations in southern Africa, Namibia is mostly a sparsely populated desert wilderness that features vast tracts of untouched Africa. With an economy largely dependent on tourism and pegged to the South African Rand, there has been massive investment in community orientated tourism ventures, and the country offers a range of first class lodges in spectacular settings - The famous Sossusvlei dunes in the Namib desert, the amazing Skeleton Coast with its eerie ghost towns and the immense salt pans of the Etosha National Park to name but a few. Windhoek, with its distinctive Germanic influence, is the most established city in the country, but a reasonable network of mostly good dirt roads links many of the smaller towns, although the best way to see the country is from the air - an efficient light aircraft charter system has developed that gets guests into remote locations with amazing facilities that would otherwise be unconceivable by road.

As our closest neighbour, Active Africa guides have driven guests on 4 wheel drive camping and lodge explorations of all the main features and facilitated the 'rock star' trip of Africa - an air charter exploration that drops in on choice lodges highlighting the best cycle routes while on the ground. In addition, we have guided multi day hikes of Africa's Grand Canyon, the Great Fish River Canyon, and paddled our way down multi day river trips on the Orange River.