Heritage
Fish River Canyon: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A canyon 56 kilometers long and half a kilometer deep in southern Namibia, cut through rock older than almost anything else you can stand on.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Namibia: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Sān Living Cultural Landscape: Visitor and Heritage Guide
UNESCO calls the San the first inhabitants of southern Africa. In one Namibian district the communities themselves hold the land and manage its wildlife.
Travel planning
Accessible Travel in Namibia
Namibia is unusually navigable for a desert country, right up to the last few kilometers of the places everyone wants to see.
Heritage
Namibia and Diaspora Reconnection
The first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Namibia, and more than a century later the question of what is owed is still open.
Events and Festivals
Namibia Festivals and Celebrations
Namibia has two UNESCO listed traditions and they sit on different lists, which is the clearest illustration of what those lists actually mean.
Culture
Namibia Culture and Etiquette Guide
Namibia chose English as its official language in 1990, and almost nobody grew up speaking it, which shapes every conversation you will have.
Food
Namibia Food Guide
Namibian food is German butchery, Afrikaner farming and Ovambo staples on the same plate, and the country is honest about all three.
Travel planning
Namibia Travel Safety Guide
Namibia is calm and empty almost everywhere, and its two real risks are Windhoek after dark and the road surface between towns.
Travel planning
Getting Around Namibia
Most visitors drive themselves across Namibia, and the single most expensive thing to misunderstand is what the hire insurance does not cover.
Travel planning
Namibia Packing List
Namibia is a desert with real winters and a coast that is cold and foggy, so the packing problem is range rather than heat.