Namibia Motorcycle Tour: Damaraland Enduro Ride

This Namibia motorcycle tour begins with your individually booked flight to Windhoek, usually an overnight flight from Germany. Your tour guide will be waiting for you at Hosea Kutako Airport the following morning, ready to start this Namibia enduro tour.

After arrival, a transfer takes you to Windhoek Mountain Lodge in the Auas Mountains, the base station for this Damaraland motorcycle tour. Following the trip briefing and an introduction to your motorcycle and GPS, a short familiarization ride rounds off the day before the legendary Bushman fondue dinner in the evening.

On good gravel roads, this off-road Namibia motorcycle tour heads west through the hilly Khomas Highland until the Spreetshoogte Pass opens up your first view into the Namib Desert. Steep switchbacks lead down to Rostock Ritz Desert Lodge, nestled between mountains and sand dunes.

If you don't want to spend your rest day relaxing, ride a rewarding mountain pass loop: back over the Spreetshoogte Pass, several crossings of the Tsauchab riverbed, and over the Remhoogte Pass back into the Namib Desert. In the evening, the lodge's desert terrace and starry sky invite you to linger.

This Yamaha WR250R ride passes through colourful Karibib with its colonial-style houses, then continues through open farm bushland to Omaruru and on into the Erongo Mountains game reserve. Mountain zebras, antelope and giraffe roam freely here; today's destination is AiAiba Lodge, home to ancient rock paintings.

On the smallest farm tracks, this Namibia gravel motorcycle tour heads west toward the Brandberg, passing Damara settlements with free-roaming cattle. The magnificent Spitzkoppe rises out of the semi-desert before you reach the mining town of Uis, with its cosy family-run accommodation and a braai in the evening.

This stage of the Etosha region motorcycle tour demands more skill: sand, gravel and riverbed crossings around the Brandberg and the Ugab Gorge, home to springbok, elephant and rhino. Via the Doros Crater, the group reaches Twyfelfontein Lodge by the afternoon.

Near the Unesco World Heritage site of Twyfelfontein with its rock engravings, this rental motorcycle tour of Namibia leaves the public roads to cross the Aba-Huab River area, home to desert elephants. Via Palmwag and the Grootberg Pass on the Etendeka Plateau, the tour reaches Kamanjab.

A southern loop follows winding farm roads through mopane bush savannah with its chalky white soils back toward Aba-Huab. This Namibia motorcycle tour once again crosses the wide riverbed with its ana and acacia trees, ending at Camp Kipwe on the riverbank.

As a true Namibia desert motorcycle tour, small farm tracks away from the usual gravel roads lead through Damara settlement areas via Khorixas to the Ugab Terraces. The Ugab River has carved this landscape dramatically, and the striking rock finger rises up beside Vingerklip Lodge.

Covering around 280 km, this Namibia motorcycle adventure leads south out of the Ugab valley, past small Damara settlements and through Omatjete and Omaruru. Crossing bush savannah and mountain scenery, the group reaches the large private Erindi game reserve.

The final riding stage of this Kaokoland warm-up tour leads via Omaruru and the old mission village of Otjimbingwe back into the Khomas Highland. In Windhoek, the group is welcomed with a sundowner and a farewell braai at the Mountain Lodge.

The day is free to relax at the lodge or stroll through Windhoek with its street cafés and craft markets. Depending on your departure time, the team organizes the transfer to the airport to bring this Windhoek motorcycle tour to a close.

Arrival early in the morning in Frankfurt am Main, with onward travel by train or flight to your home town as needed. This brings the Namibia enduro tour to a close, leaving you with lasting impressions of Damaraland and its varied off-road tracks.