Damaraland & Kaokoland
Desert-adapted elephant, rock art, and the roads that stop being roads.
Palmwag Lodge · Gondwana CollectionNorth-west Namibia is where the country gets serious. Damaraland holds desert-adapted elephant and black rhino on communal conservancies; beyond it, Kaokoland runs to the Kunene and the Epupa Falls. Self-drive is possible with the right vehicle and nerve - and it is also where the fly-in camps make the most sense.
Where we can place you in Damaraland.
Self-drive country. You arrive in your own vehicle and the property is the bed at the end of the day.
Self-drive
An unlikely green lodge in dry mopane country - every bungalow has a walled garden and the kitchen cooks out of them. There is a sundowner hill behind…
Self-drive
Set among makalani palms on the edge of the Palmwag concession, where desert-adapted elephant walk through the property often enough that the staff ha…
Self-drive
As far north as the road goes, on the Kunene where it drops through the Epupa Falls into Angola. A long, hard drive to get to and worth every hour of …
And by air.
Fly-in and fully inclusive. Light aircraft to the airstrip, and everything from there is guided.
Fly-in
Run in partnership with the Doro !Nawas Conservancy, on a rise with a 360-degree view of Damaraland. Desert-adapted elephant tracking along the Aba-Hu…
Fly-in
One of the longest-standing community joint ventures in Namibia, on the Torra Conservancy. Elephant tracking, guided walks, and the kind of silence th…
Fly-in
Run with Save the Rhino Trust, tracking black rhino on foot with the people who monitor them. It is the single most serious wildlife experience either…
Fly-in
Deep in the Kaokoveld, where desert lion, brown hyena and giraffe live off a dry riverbed. On stays of three nights or more a scheduled coastal flight…
Fly-in
One of the most remote camps in southern Africa - a permanent river running through the driest place imaginable, with the Hartmann Valley behind it. G…
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