The Kunene Camino is part of our Namibia Walking Tours

This is an 11-day Camino with 2 days travel to and from the Kunene. 9 days of walking.

We will walk from below Ruacana Falls to Epupa Falls along the Swartbooisdrift Road. There are goat tracks along the river you can also walk. It is a total of 155km.

This is a mobile camping Camino. There will be some formal camp sites but also a lot of wild camping next to the river.

The backup team will take care of all camp duties. So, you do not need to put up or take down your tent, do any cooking or any camp chores. You carry only your day bag.

We cater for Herbivores and Carnivores and our food is made with love.

It will be 9 days of walking made up of the following distances.
Day 1: 14.7km
Day 2: 19.7km
Day 3: 15km
Day 4: 15.5km
Day 5: 19.3km
Day 6: 17km
Day 7: 15km
Day 8: 16km
Day 9: 16km

We include the transport from Windhoek to Ruacana and from Epupa Falls
to Windhoek.

We also do a charity drive to collect staple food for the loval Himba people. We will hand it out along the way.

We will erect a canvas cubicle for shower hour and the same for our toilet.

You will have total privacy.

The Kunene region is one of fourteen regions in Namibia. It is 115,000km² and has a population of around 90,000 people. The Capital is Opuwo and amazingly the region has a population density of only one person per 0.75km². Compare that with Hong Kong, which has a density of 7,125 people per 1km².

The Kunene River in Northern Namibia or Cunene River in Southern Angola is 1,050km long and starts in the highlands of Angola. Our walk will be following this river from the Ruacana Falls to the Epupa Falls. There are a lot of indigenous OvaHimba and OvaVimba people along the river (approx. 50,000) but they keep mostly to themselves. They populate the southern part of Angola and the Kunene formerly Koakoveld.

The Vimba and the Himba share much in common, however the Vimba wear a different type of traditional dress, and the women do not cover their skin and hair with a paste of butter, fat, and red ochre known as otjize to their skin and hair. They form part of the Bantu speaking tribes and are semi-nomadic. They have homesteads where they grow crops but often move with the rains.

Pricing

N$19 500 Per Person Sharing
N$21 500 Single

2023 Dates

26 September 2023 – 4 October 2023
(Special Price of N$10 999pp sharing or N$12 999 single)

2024 Dates

1 May 2024 to 12 May 2024
1 June 2024 to 12 June 2024
6 July 2024 to 17 July 2024
10 September 2024 to 21 September 2024

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