Kaokoveld

The Kaokoveld is very wild. Again and again you can see oryx antelopes, springboks, kudus or giraffes, mostly in the sandy dry rivers, in the shade of acacia trees. With a little luck you can also see the famous desert elephants.

The capital of the Ovahimba, Opuwo, is located in the middle of the Kaokoland and offers shopping opportunities to the surrounding villages of the Normaden. Also, this area is a part of the Kunene region, where the Epupa Waterfalls, further east the Ruacana Falls are located, which fill only with good rainfall in the neighboring country of Angola.

The modest and semi-nomadic shepherd people, the Ovahimba, were able to largely preserve their ethnic identity and culture in the seclusion of the Kaokoland. The friendly people mainly breed cattle, fat–tailed sheep and goats, and – depending on the season – they move with their flocks to different, not dried-up watering places. Their small mud huts offer them a protective place to stay, because it can get very hot there.