Getting to Rundu
7h 18m from Windhoek on the B1, then the B8, 697 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 Rundu
697 km · 7h 18m · tar all the way
the B1, then the B8, via Okahandja, Otjiwarongo, Otavi and 1 more
N$8,900
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 Rundu
742 km · 7h 45m · tar all the way
the B6, B1, then the B8, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Otjiwarongo and 2 more
N$9,400
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 Rundu
913 km · 9h 28m · tar all the way
the B2, B1, then the B8, via Usakos, Karibib, Okahandja and 3 more
N$11,350
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$10,100 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Walvis Bay to Rundu
946 km · 9h 48m · tar all the way
the C34, B2, B1, then the B8, via Swakopmund, Usakos, Karibib and 4 more
N$11,750
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$10,450 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
Staying at a lodge near Rundu?
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 Rundu 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.