Getting to Palmwag
6h 42m from Windhoek on the B1, C38, then the C40, 574 km, of which 115 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 Palmwag
574 km · 6h 42m · 115 km gravel
the B1, C38, then the C40, via Okahandja, Otjiwarongo, Outjo and 1 more
N$8,850
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$5,150 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Palmwag
619 km · 7h 9m · 115 km gravel
the B6, B1, C38, then the C40, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Otjiwarongo and 2 more
N$9,450
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$5,550 — a car returning to Hosea Kutako (WDH) usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Swakopmund to Palmwag
548 km · 8h 22m · 473 km gravel
the C34 salt road, C35, then the C40, via Henties Bay, Uis, Khorixas and 1 more
N$10,350
per vehicle
Price this tripComing 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 Palmwag
581 km · 8h 41m · 473 km gravel
the C34, C34 salt road, C35, then the C40, via Swakopmund, Henties Bay, Uis and 2 more
N$10,800
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$8,650 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
Staying at a lodge near Palmwag?
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 Palmwag 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.