The Best Time To Visit

Independent state in Africa, Namibia offers you a stay filled with sensations you will have nowhere else, with its sand dunes glowing colors to its flora and fauna, through caves decorated with unusual performances. Note first of all that the climate that awaits you is characterized by sunny 300 days a year, then the month of May to October, the climate is dry and requires days and torrid nights very cold. Furthermore, the months from October to December is the season of little rainfall, and the months of January to March season of heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms, which often cause the overflow of rivers in the north-east of the Namibia. Temperatures vary depending on where you are: in Windhoek for example, they range between 6 ° and 20 ° C between June and August, between 17 ° and 35 ° C during the season of small rains. Desert regions have temperatures of up to 50 ° C for the latter period. The influx of tourists is at its peak between April and September. Thus, one is almost tempted to say that there is no preferred season to visit Namibia as the sun is always there. It must be able to choose the right time, including the dry season and the small rainy season, where roads are not transformed into rivers during which heat does not close the heat wave.

Symbolizing all of Africa itself, with its scenery and its many diverse peoples and cultures, Namibia gradually opens to tourism, to the delight of curious travelers.

The capital, Windhoek, is the center of the country, surrounded by mountains and marked by its Germanic origins. You will visit the Lutheran Church Christuskirche, the state museum, the pedestrian street of Post Street, and will attend their club nights and live entertainment.

Park Namib-Naukluft is a huge nature reserve with dunes red desert to the amazing lunar landscapes, populated by animals surviving on the dew, as the Springboks and weltwischias.

The National Park Fish River is a shock in the middle of a desolate wilderness: the widening river gorges gigantic opportunity for hikers to follow a path along the river until the hot springs of Ai - Ais, the therapeutic benefits.

Other park to explore the Etosha, home to over a hundred species of mammals, dozens of kinds of birds, besides reptiles and countless insects, and tree species not found elsewhere, such as Moringa.

You can reach Windhoek by air via South Africa or Zimbabwe.

Nationals of the European Union do not need a visa.

The current currency is the Namibia Dollar.

You will find you stay and eat for all budgets: about 12 € for a meal and between 30 and 50 € for a private accommodation or in hostels.

The precautions regarding health are lower than in other African countries through the very dry climate very healthy prevailing in Namibia more than conventional vaccination against yellow fever and protect against mosquitoes are the main rules to follow.

To move inside the country, the train connecting major cities, a slow but inexpensive, in addition to many wonderful views. Renting a car can be more interesting, the main roads are very good: however, a 4X4 prefer to travel on bush tracks.