Travel planning
Namibia Currency and Money Guide
Namibia runs two currencies at once, and the useful half of the fact is the one direction in which the arrangement does not work.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Namibia: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Travel planning
Namibia Visa and Entry Requirements
Namibia started requiring a visa on 1 April 2025, so any advice written before that date is now wrong about the most important thing.
Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Namibia
The desert in Namibia has no bad season, which means the month you choose is really a decision about Etosha and about the rain.
Heritage
Brandberg: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Namibia’s highest mountain holds one of the densest bodies of rock art in the world, and its most famous figure was misnamed twice.
Heritage
Namib Sand Sea: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The Namib Sand Sea is the only coastal desert in the world whose dune landscape is shaped mainly by fog rather than by rain.
Heritage
Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Twyfelfontein carries one of the largest concentrations of rock engravings in Africa, and its second name is older than its first.
Destination
Namibia
The world’s only coastal fog desert, rock engravings at /Ui-//aes, and a colonial history the country is still publicly reckoning with.