Getting to Katima Mulilo
12h 24m from Windhoek on the B1, then the B8, 1207 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 Katima Mulilo
1207 km · 12h 24m · tar all the way
the B1, then the B8, via Okahandja, Otjiwarongo, Otavi and 4 more
N$15,400
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$10,550 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Katima Mulilo
1252 km · 12h 51m · tar all the way
the B6, B1, then the B8, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Otjiwarongo and 5 more
N$15,950
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$10,900 — a car returning to Hosea Kutako (WDH) usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Swakopmund to Katima Mulilo
1423 km · 14h 34m · tar all the way
the B2, B1, then the B8, via Usakos, Karibib, Okahandja and 6 more
N$17,900
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$15,900 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Walvis Bay to Katima Mulilo
1456 km · 14h 54m · tar all the way
the C34, B2, B1, then the B8, via Swakopmund, Usakos, Karibib and 7 more
N$18,300
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$16,250 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
Staying at a lodge near Katima Mulilo?
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 Katima Mulilo 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.