Getting to Solitaire
4h 20m from Walvis Bay on the C14, 260 km, of which 260 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 Walvis Bay to Solitaire
260 km · 4h 20m · 260 km gravel
the C14
N$4,900
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,850 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Windhoek to Solitaire
280 km · 4h 38m · 280 km gravel
the C26 Spreetshoogte
N$5,250
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,350 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Swakopmund to Solitaire
293 km · 4h 40m · 260 km gravel
the C34, then the C14, via Walvis Bay
N$5,300
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$4,200 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Solitaire
325 km · 5h 5m · 280 km gravel
the B6, then the C26 Spreetshoogte, via Windhoek
N$5,850
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,700 — 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 Solitaire?
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 Solitaire 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.