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Getting to Etosha (Namutoni)

5h 32m from Windhoek on the B1, then the B1 / C38, 520 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.

Etosha's Von Lindequist Gate shuts at sunset — and sunset here moves by more than an hour across the year. A drive that is comfortable in December is a locked gate in June, which is why we work the departure back from the gate rather than from the clock. How we compute it.

What it costs to get here

Priced from each place a trip realistically starts. Nearest first.

  • From Windhoek to Etosha (Namutoni)

    520 km · 5h 32m · tar all the way

    the B1, then the B1 / C38, via Okahandja, Otjiwarongo, Otavi and 1 more

    N$7,550

    per vehicle

    Price this trip

    Coming back is N$4,350 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.

  • From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Etosha (Namutoni)

    565 km · 5h 59m · tar all the way

    the B6, B1, then the B1 / C38, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Otjiwarongo and 2 more

    N$8,150

    per vehicle

    Price this trip

    Coming back is N$4,750 — a car returning to Hosea Kutako (WDH) usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.

  • From Swakopmund to Etosha (Namutoni)

    736 km · 7h 42m · tar all the way

    the B2, B1, then the B1 / C38, via Usakos, Karibib, Okahandja and 3 more

    N$10,350

    per vehicle

    Price this trip

    Coming back is N$8,300 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.

  • From Walvis Bay to Etosha (Namutoni)

    769 km · 8h 1m · tar all the way

    the C34, B2, B1, then the B1 / C38, via Swakopmund, Usakos, Karibib and 4 more

    N$10,800

    per vehicle

    Price this trip

    Coming back is N$8,650 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.

Map of the route from Windhoek to Etosha — Von Lindequist Gate (Namutoni)
Windhoek → Etosha — Von Lindequist Gate (Namutoni)· 520 km· about 5h 32m

Staying at a lodge near Etosha (Namutoni)?

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 Etosha (Namutoni) 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.

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Where people go next

Each of these is a drive we have measured, with the roads, the surface and the time on it.