Kaokoland & Damaraland special edition of our regular Kaokoland Odyssey Tour
In June this year we piloted an exclusive version of our renowned Kaokoland / Damaraland Odyssey Tour. The new format was a triumph and now planned as a regular offering from 2024 and beyond.
A private chartered flight from Windhoek to Ruacana on the Angola / Namibia border where we met our motorcycles set the tone with magnificent views over north west Namibia and the Etosha Pans. From Ruacana we followed the Kunene River to Epupa Falls and then south through Kaokoland and Damaraland back to Windhoek.
There is simply no other tour offering in Kaokoland / Damaraland that compares our special edition tour. From the charter flight to the stunning lodges at the end of each of the eight days of epic riding through ‘Africa’s last unspoiled wilderness’.
John on lead bike and the support van & trailer carrying all our supplies / fuel and gear guided everyone safely back to the Namibia’s capital.
Highlights of the tour included:
- Kunene River Trail
- Ova-Himba tribal people of Kaokoland
- Epupa Falls
- Van Zyl’s Pass (an epic but rugged 4×4 mountain track)
- The Marienfluss (mystical sandy plains)
- Puros Canyons
- Hoanib River Trail (dry river beds with wild animals like desert elephants/ giraffe / Oryx and even lions)
- Abundant wild life on the trails and around the remote lodges
- Twyfelfontein Conservancy
- Brandberg Mountains
- Stunning remote lodges
- The best riding terrain on the planet
- And the special ingredient , 7 awesome riding guests.
This edition of the tour as well as the more affordable regular Kaokoland Odyssey will be available again in 2024 and beyond. If there is one motorcycle adventure in Africa (if not the world) you simply have to do it is Kaokoland.
Pics of the 2023 edition: All pics by Sam Clark (Photographer)
Hoanib River Trail
Hoanib River Trail
Hoanib River Trail
Photo for personal use only. No Editorial/Advertorial usage without permission. Photo is fee bearing. Photo by Sam Clark
Stone Men of Kaokoland (one of 28 sculptures by artist Trevor Knott)
Puros Canyon
Puros Canyon
Puros Canyon
Desert elephants – Puros Bush Lodge
Trading Store – Puros Village
Puros Conservancy
Stone Man at Puros Conservancy
Famous ‘Shop No 1 , Orupembe (The only shop and it sells almost nothing)
Trevor Knott’s Stone Men of Kaokoland (They’re actually a kind of marketing for the small Lodge at Marble Mine near the Marienfluss)
Sundowners at our secret lodge. Truly remote and beautiful
Are from our secret lodge
van Zyl’s Pass
van Zyl’s Pass
Top of van Zyl’s Pass overlooking the Marienfluss
van Zyl’s Pass
Heartbreak Hill
Epic Kaokoland highway
Epupa Falls for above
Omarunga Lodge – Epupa
Omarunga Lodge
Epupa Falls
Kunene River Trail
Himba people – untouched my modern living
Kunene River Trail
Kunene River Trail
Windhoek to Ruacana – Our special charter flight is a treat
Sundowners at Twyfelfontein Country Lodge
One the pools at the stunning Palmwag Lodge (Gondwana Collection)
This is Africa
Palmwag Conservancy
Brandberg Conservancy
Brandberg Conservancy
Madisa Luxury tented Camp
Namibia skies
Namibia skies
