Getting to Spitzkoppe
2h 42m from Swakopmund on the C34 salt road, then the D1918 / C35, 180 km, of which 105 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 Swakopmund to Spitzkoppe
180 km · 2h 42m · 105 km gravel
the C34 salt road, then the D1918 / C35, via Henties Bay
N$3,050
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$2,450 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Walvis Bay to Spitzkoppe
213 km · 3h 2m · 105 km gravel
the C34, C34 salt road, then the D1918 / C35, via Swakopmund and Henties Bay
N$3,500
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$2,750 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Windhoek to Spitzkoppe
268 km · 3h 20m · 60 km gravel
the B1, B2, then the D1918, via Okahandja, Karibib and Usakos
N$3,950
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$2,550 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Spitzkoppe
313 km · 3h 47m · 60 km gravel
the B6, B1, B2, then the D1918, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Karibib and 1 more
N$4,550
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$2,900 — 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 Spitzkoppe?
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 Spitzkoppe 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.