Getting to Henties Bay
1h 5m from Swakopmund on the C34 salt road, 75 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 Swakopmund to Henties Bay
75 km · 1h 5m · tar all the way
the C34 salt road
N$1,150
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$950 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Walvis Bay to Henties Bay
108 km · 1h 25m · tar all the way
the C34, then the C34 salt road, via Swakopmund
N$1,600
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$1,300 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Windhoek to Henties Bay
431 km · 4h 39m · tar all the way
the B1, B2, then the C34 salt road, via Okahandja, Karibib, Usakos and 1 more
N$5,750
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,650 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Henties Bay
476 km · 5h 6m · tar all the way
the B6, B1, B2, then the C34 salt road, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Karibib and 2 more
N$6,350
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$4,000 — a car returning to Hosea Kutako (WDH) usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
Staying at a lodge near Henties Bay?
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 Henties Bay 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.