Getting to Epupa Falls
9h 59m from Windhoek on the B1, C38, C40, C35 / C41, then the C43, 870 km, of which 175 km is gravel. 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 Epupa Falls
870 km · 9h 59m · 175 km gravel
the B1, C38, C40, C35 / C41, then the C43, via Okahandja, Otjiwarongo, Outjo and 2 more
N$13,000
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$8,400 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Epupa Falls
915 km · 10h 26m · 175 km gravel
the B6, B1, C38, C40, C35 / C41, then the C43, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Otjiwarongo and 3 more
N$13,550
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$8,750 — a car returning to Hosea Kutako (WDH) usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Swakopmund to Epupa Falls
844 km · 11h 39m · 533 km gravel
the C34 salt road, C35, C35 / C41, then the C43, via Henties Bay, Uis, Khorixas and 2 more
N$15,150
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$11,550 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Walvis Bay to Epupa Falls
877 km · 11h 58m · 533 km gravel
the C34, C34 salt road, C35, C35 / C41, then the C43, via Swakopmund, Henties Bay, Uis and 3 more
N$15,550
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$11,850 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
Staying at a lodge near Epupa Falls?
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 Epupa Falls 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.