Getting to Aus
7h 26m from Windhoek on the B1, then the B4, 710 km, all of it tarred. Every price below buys the whole vehicle rather than a seat, and is fixed before you book — the return is priced beside it, because the two directions are rarely the same number.
What it costs to get here
Priced from each place a trip realistically starts. Nearest first.
From Windhoek to Aus
710 km · 7h 26m · tar all the way
the B1, then the B4, via Rehoboth, Mariental and Keetmanshoop
N$10,000
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$5,900 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Aus
755 km · 7h 53m · tar all the way
the B6, B1, then the B4, via Windhoek, Rehoboth, Mariental and 1 more
N$10,600
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$6,250 — a car returning to Hosea Kutako (WDH) usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Walvis Bay to Aus
690 km · 10h 57m · 690 km gravel
the C14, C19, C14 / C27, then the C14, via Solitaire, Sossusvlei and Helmeringhausen
N$13,950
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$10,600 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Swakopmund to Aus
1066 km · 11h · tar all the way
the B2, B1, then the B4, via Usakos, Karibib, Okahandja and 4 more
N$15,250
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$11,650 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
Staying at a lodge near Aus?
Most people are going to a property rather than to the town, and the last stretch is often gravel that no map app times properly. The prices above are to Aus itself. Send us the lodge and we price the door, not the nearest signpost — we would rather ask than publish a guess at somebody else’s driveway.
Where people go next
Each of these is a drive we have measured, with the roads, the surface and the time on it.
There is gravel on the way in. Whether to drive it yourself is a real question here, and the honest answer depends on the excess on your hire agreement rather than on the road.