Getting to Uis
3h 5m from Swakopmund on the C34 salt road, then the C35, 205 km, of which 130 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 Uis
205 km · 3h 5m · 130 km gravel
the C34 salt road, then the C35, via Henties Bay
N$3,500
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$2,800 — a car returning to Swakopmund usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Walvis Bay to Uis
238 km · 3h 25m · 130 km gravel
the C34, C34 salt road, then the C35, via Swakopmund and Henties Bay
N$3,950
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,100 — a car returning to Walvis Bay usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Windhoek to Uis
364 km · 4h 37m · 118 km gravel
the B1, B2, C33, then the C36, via Okahandja, Karibib and Omaruru
N$5,500
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,500 — a car returning to Windhoek usually finds another fare, and one sent out here usually drives home empty.
From Hosea Kutako (WDH) to Uis
409 km · 5h 4m · 118 km gravel
the B6, B1, B2, C33, then the C36, via Windhoek, Okahandja, Karibib and 1 more
N$6,100
per vehicle
Price this tripComing back is N$3,850 — 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 Uis?
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 Uis 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.