Travel News Namibia

Today the Finnish government signed two funding agreements. In the first, The Erongo Region Small Scale Miners Project received around N$800 000 (80 000 Euros) from the Finnish Embassy in Windhoek for a one year project which aims at building the capacity of ERSMA in effectively providing support and assistance to the small scale mining [...]

Springbok Atlas Tours & Safaris has partnered up with Grosvenor Tours, effectively creating a single entity operating under multiple brands. Both the companies are owned by Imperial, one of South Africa’s leading companies in the transport for hire business. Gary Lotter, CEO of Springbok and Grosvenor, announced that while the two operations have been brought [...]

For a moment, forget about the historical connotation to Katutura, “the place where we do not want to live”, as today this pulsating community is breathing with a new vigour. Pumping with a vibrant, colourful energy and oozing an atmosphere of opportunity, the dusty little streets of the Kasi are home to about 60% of [...]

Impressive growth of visitors from nontraditional places, including China, have now put tourism ahead of gold mining in Namibia. “As more people jump into the region’s growing tourism sector, countries are starting to shift their attention away from the region’s old colonial masters and toward newer markets. Tourism, they say, is not only supporting widespread [...]

Windhoek has had several names, many inspired by the hot water springs found in the area, the earliest of which were the Damara /Ais //Gams (/ indicates a click in Nama spelling) which means firewater and the Herero Otjimuise or place of steam. The area was also called Queen Adelaide’s Baths for a (mercifully) brief [...]