Getting to Twyfelfontein
4h 37m from Swakopmund on the C34 salt road, C35, then the D2612 / C35, 305 km, of which 230 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 Twyfelfontein
305 km · 4h 37m · 230 km gravel
the C34 salt road, C35, then the D2612 / C35, via Henties Bay and Uis
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 Walvis Bay to Twyfelfontein
338 km · 4h 57m · 230 km gravel
the C34, C34 salt road, C35, then the D2612 / C35, via Swakopmund, Henties Bay and Uis
N$5,750
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$4,550 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Windhoek to Twyfelfontein
520 km · 6h 1m · 90 km gravel
the B1, C38, C39, then the C39 / D2612, via Okahandja, Otjiwarongo, Outjo and 1 more
N$8,000
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$4,650 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Twyfelfontein
565 km · 6h 28m · 90 km gravel
the B6, B1, C38, C39, then the C39 / D2612, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Otjiwarongo and 2 more
N$8,600
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$5,000 — 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 Twyfelfontein?
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 Twyfelfontein 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.
- Twyfelfontein → Etosha (Namutoni)
- Twyfelfontein → Etosha (Okaukuejo)
- Twyfelfontein → Henties Bay
- Twyfelfontein → Hosea Kutako (WDH)
- Twyfelfontein → Kamanjab
- Twyfelfontein → Khorixas
- Twyfelfontein → Omaruru
- Twyfelfontein → Opuwo
- Twyfelfontein → Otjiwarongo
- Twyfelfontein → Palmwag
- Twyfelfontein → Spitzkoppe
- Twyfelfontein → Swakopmund
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.