Windhoek City & Surroundings - Day Tours
Spend your time wisely while visiting Windhoek city to experience its surrounding. Windhoek is a modern, well-groomed city where office workers lounge around Zoo Park at lunchtime, tourists funnel through Post St Mall admiring curios and taxis whizz around honking at potential customers. Neobaroque cathedral spires, as well as a few seemingly misplaced German castles, punctuate the skyline, and complement the steel-and-glass high-rises.
Windhoek makes a great place to begin or break a journey through Namibia or rest at journey’s end. The accommodation choices, food variety, cultural sights, shopping and urban buzz give it an edge not found anywhere else in Namibia.
Windhoek City & Katutura Township Tour
This tour will give you an overview of modern day Windhoek while you get to know the comprehensive history of Windhoek and Namibia from colonial era to today.
We visit the Christ Church, Ink Palace, Parliament Gardens, and the Old Fort. From the city center we then drive to Katutura Township. Katutura township’s Windhoek’s informal settlement and estimated to be home to more than two thirds of Windhoek’s 325,000 people. The township is a vibrant and exciting place to visit and a great chance to get a bit of insight into some of the more traditional Namibian cultures.
Pickup: From accommodation starts 30 minutes prior to tour departure. Note: We strongly recommend that you do not bring valuables on this tour.
- Christuskriche
- Parliament Gardens
- Local market
- Penduka crafts project
The tour starts in the city center, we 1st explore Christuskriche, Ink Palace, Parliament Gardens, and the Old Fort, learning about both the history of Windhoek and Namibia and how it was establish, to it’s modern time of today, everything from the social to the political.
From the city center, we make our way through the suburbs and into Katutura where we can feel the buzz of the township. This area is a live with more than 1/2 of Windhoek’s populations living here. We visit the local market, known as the ‘Single Quarters’ where we can try some local delicacies from mopane worms to kapana (barbecue meat), before driving deeper into the township area.
We then visit Penduka, a women’s project that is an initiative started to offer unskilled women the chance to earn a living and support their families. From here, we travel through different areas of Katutura on our way back into the city center where you are dropped off at your accommodation.
Price from: $30 per person
Departs: Monday – Sunday
Type: Half-Day Trip
Starts: Windhoek
End: Windhoek
Duration: 3 hours
- Pick up & drop off from accommodation
- Transport in an air-conditioned vehicle
- Services of an English speaking local guide
- Mineral water
- Local snacks
Okapuka Game Drive
This is a guided drive in an open vehicle through the riverine area of Okapuka. Refreshments and light snacks will be provided. Departure 10am (and 2pm by special request). Duration: 2 hours.
Experience Africa’s wild side at the doorstep of Namibia’s capital Windhoek, just a 30 minute drive from the center of town. Surrounded by a 7300 ha living escape of prime African savannah, Okapuka Safari Lodge is an oasis of lush green lawns under ancient camel thorn trees against the backdrop of a towering mountain range.
Pickup: From accommodation starts 30 minutes prior to tour departure.
- Enjoy peace and quiet.
- Watch an array of warthogs and antelopes peacefully grazing side by side.
The guided game drive departs in an open vehicle through the riverine area of Okapuka. Refreshments and light snacks will be provided. Departure 10am (and 2pm by special request). Duration 2 hours.
Price from: $45 per person
Departs: Monday – Sunday
Type: Half-Day Trip
Starts: Windhoek
End: Windhoek
Duration: 2 hours
- Pick up & drop off from accommodation
- Transport in an air-conditioned vehicle
- Services of an English speaking local guide
- Bottled still water
- Local snacks
Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary Tour
Embark on an incredible drive where you may encounter our esteemed baboons, caracals, lions, cheetahs, African wild dogs, and leopards. Witness their feeding sessions led by our knowledgeable guides and be captivated by their tales.
Along the scenic route, keep an eye out for other magnificent animals roaming freely in the reserve. This experience not only offers valuable insights into these remarkable creatures but also serves as an exceptional introduction to our conservation efforts at N/a’an ku sê.
Pickup: From accommodation starts 30 minutes prior to tour departure.
- Encounter wildlife like baboons, caracals, lions, cheetahs, wild dogs, and leopards.
- Witness feeding sessions of rehabilitated animals.
On departure from Windhoek enjoy a 1hour scenic drive out of town to the Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary. Embark on an incredible drive where you may encounter our esteemed baboons, caracals, lions, cheetahs, African wild dogs, and leopards. Witness their feeding sessions led by our knowledgeable guides and be captivated by their tales.
Along the scenic route, keep an eye out for other magnificent animals roaming freely in the reserve. This experience not only offers valuable insights into these remarkable creatures but also serves as an exceptional introduction to our conservation efforts at N/a’an ku sê.
Price from: $125 per person
Departs: Monday and Friday
Type: Half-Day Trip
Starts: Windhoek
End: Windhoek
Duration: 5 hours
- Pick up & drop off from accommodation
- Transport in an air-conditioned vehicle
- Services of an English speaking local guide
- Bottled still water
- 3 hour Discover the Routes of Naankus activity.
Dusternbrook Game Drive Tour
This half-day excursion consists of a late afternoon game drive, to give you an opportunity to see everything from giraffe, antelope, and hippo (a rarity in the Windhoek area) ending with a sundowner drink on a mountaintop overlooking the whole area of Windhoek and surroundings.
Dusternbrook, (named after a part of the port town of Keil in Germany), is big, 30,000 acres of prime bushveldt and is located in a beautiful valley in the Khomas Hochland Mountains. It is hard to believe that we have arrived is such a wild and lovely place after just a short drive from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Pickup: From accommodation starts 30 minutes prior to tour departure.
- Encounter wildlife like Hippo, Giraffe, Blue Wildebeest, Kudu, Red Hartebeest, Steenbok, Warthog, Impala, Ostrich, and a rich bird life like 4 different Hornbills.
We are collected from our accommodation establishment, within the city limits, and embark on this half-day excursion which is an excellent way to spend an afternoon. We head out of the city on the main A1 highway and drive for around 30 minutes before turning off the main road and on to the farm tracks. From here it is another 30 minute drive to our destination at Dusternbrook Guest Farm.
There is a short check-in process when we arrive at the reception area, where we will also have time for a leg stretch, bathroom visits and, if you like, refreshments, (at a small extra charge). We meet our Dusternbrook guide, and transfer to an open-game viewing vehicle.
The game drive takes you across the property where natural wildlife abounds. Expect to see giraffe, oryx, common impala, wildebeest and springbok but there are also good chances to see eland, sable antelope, waterbuck and surprisingly hippo. The Otjiseru River is quite a large stream when it flows and produces enough water every year to maintain some large, deep natural pools of water on a year round basis.
Hippopotamus are not natural to this semi-desert environment and have been introduced to the farm from their usual habitats in the very far north of Namibia. They are curious and interesting creatures to see and they look very contented and just as eager to look at us from their watery home as we are to look at them. The open water of course attracts many other species and there is usually always a flurry of birdlife on and at the water’s edge.
We end the game drive with an adventurous drive up a mountain for a sundowner drink and snack and the best veiw before heading back to the reception area. A short stop here where we say good bye to our experienced and informative guides before re-joining our driver for the approximately 60 minute drive back to Windhoek.
Price from: $120 per person
Departs: Monday and Friday
Type: Half-Day Trip
Starts: Windhoek
End: Windhoek
Duration: 5 hours
- Pick up & drop off from accommodation
- Transport in an air-conditioned vehicle
- Services of an English speaking local guide
- Bottled still water
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