Getting to Opuwo
7h 17m from Windhoek on the B1, C38, C40, then the C35 / C41, 695 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 Opuwo
695 km · 7h 17m · tar all the way
the B1, C38, C40, then the C35 / C41, via Okahandja, Otjiwarongo, Outjo and 1 more
N$8,850
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$5,800 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Opuwo
740 km · 7h 44m · tar all the way
the B6, B1, C38, C40, then the C35 / C41, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Otjiwarongo and 2 more
N$9,350
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$6,150 — a car returning to Hosea Kutako (WDH) usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Swakopmund to Opuwo
669 km · 8h 57m · 358 km gravel
the C34 salt road, C35, then the C35 / C41, via Henties Bay, Uis, Khorixas and 1 more
N$10,200
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$9,050 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Walvis Bay to Opuwo
702 km · 9h 17m · 358 km gravel
the C34, C34 salt road, C35, then the C35 / C41, via Swakopmund, Henties Bay, Uis and 2 more
N$10,550
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$9,400 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
Staying at a lodge near Opuwo?
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 Opuwo 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.