Namibia Motorcycle Tour: The Classic Tour

Your Namibia motorcycle tour begins with arrival at Hosea Kutako International Airport. A transfer takes you to the comfortable Windhoek Mountain Lodge in the Auas Mountains, your base station, where you can recover from the flight and soak up your first impressions of Namibia.

After a detailed trip briefing and introduction to the motorcycles and GPS units, your Namibia enduro tour kicks off with a roughly 100 km familiarization ride, so you get comfortable with the road conditions and the bike before the real adventure begins.

Riding on relatively flat gravel roads, this stage of the Southern Africa motorcycle tour carries you into the southeastern part of the country. Thorn-bush savannah and sparse pastureland shape the landscape before you reach the charming Auob Valley via Uhlenhorst and spend the night at Auob Country Lodge.

This Kalahari Desert enduro stage continues through fascinating belts of orange-red dunes, passing the green oasis of Stampriet. At Gariganus, the Giant's Playground and the Quiver Tree Forest with its tree-sized aloe plants await you.

This stage of your Fish River Canyon motorcycle tour follows the eastern rim of the world's second-largest canyon, with sweeping panoramic views over deep, winding gorges. At the Orange River you check into your cabana at Felix Unite.

After a canoe trip on the Orange River, you continue by motorcycle heading west. This gravel-road enduro stage in Namibia passes the mining town of Rosh Pinah, crosses the Namib Desert and the striking Tiras Mountains, and ends at your lodge near Helmeringhausen.

On this stage of your Namibia motorcycle round trip, seemingly endless plains and mountain ranges on the edge of the Namib drift past. Passing the almost unbelievably tall dunes near Sesriem, you reach your accommodation close to the famous Sossusvlei.

Before sunrise, 4x4 vehicles take you to the world's highest dunes in the Namib-Naukluft National Park – a highlight of every Namibia motorcycle tour with rental bike. In the afternoon your own stage continues on to Solitaire and the Rotstock Mountains.

Crossing the Tropic of Capricorn and riding through the Kuiseb Canyon, the route cuts across the Namib-Naukluft National Park to the coast. This Swakopmund motorcycle tour stage ends in the fresh Atlantic air at a good hotel by the sea.

This day of your Windhoek motorcycle tour is yours to spend as you like: the Crystal Gallery, the Natural History Museum, the Snake Park, or an optional quad-bike excursion into the dunes south of Swakopmund are all on offer.

Along the salt road through Dorob National Park, the route heads north past the Brandberg massif. This Damaraland motorcycle tour stage also passes the ancient welwitschia plant, before a hearty braai awaits you in Uis.

This Grootberg motorcycle tour stage crosses dry riverbeds where rare desert elephants live, passing oxide-red table mountains. Via Twyfelfontein, you reach Grootberg Lodge in the afternoon, with its view over the Klip River Canyon.

Over the winding Grootberg Pass and across the Etendeka Plateau, this Yamaha XT660 enduro stage in Namibia takes you to Vingerklip Lodge and on to the striking table mountain of Mount Etjo, where game viewing and a lion feeding await you.

After a game drive spotting giraffes, zebras and rhinos, the final stage of your guided Namibia motorcycle tour leads over remote gravel roads and central farmland back to Windhoek Mountain Lodge, where a farewell barbecue awaits.

The last day of your Namibia motorcycle tour is free for a stroll through Windhoek, with its street cafes and craft markets, before an organized transfer takes you to the airport for your flight home.