Namibia Motorcycle Tour: Gravel Road Adventure

This Namibia motorcycle tour begins with your individual arrival at O.R. Tambo Airport in Johannesburg. Together we'll collect your chosen rental motorcycle, clarify any last questions about gear, and get to know each other over a first evening in Gauteng. Namibia's gravel roads await you from tomorrow.

On your adventure bike, you'll ride around 380 kilometers toward the Kalahari to Vryburg, nicknamed the "Texas of South Africa." More than 200,000 cattle change hands here every year, and with a bit of luck the rhino "Champ" will be waiting outside your accommodation.

Today this off-road motorcycle adventure in southern Africa covers around 400 kilometers to Upington on the Orange River. The city is considered one of the hottest in South Africa and offers air-conditioned accommodations right on the river, as well as the Kalahari Orange Museum.

At the Aughrabies Falls you'll marvel at a 60-meter drop before riding your Namibia rental motorcycle (BMW GS) across the border at Ariamsvlei. Around 400 kilometers take you first over tarmac, then over the first off-road kilometers to a comfortable lodge.

This guided Namibia motorcycle tour takes a break today: the Fish River Canyon is the world's second-largest after the Grand Canyon. An excursion to the viewpoints and time at the Ai-Ais Hot Springs are on the program.

This Lüderitz motorcycle leg takes you around 450 kilometers to the lonely Atlantic coast. In the town founded in 1883 by Bremen merchant Adolf Lüderitz, and at the Bahnhof Hotel in Aus, you'll encounter German history in the heart of Namibia.

Before continuing, you'll visit the ghost town of Kolmanskop – this South Africa–Namibia motorcycle adventure shows you abandoned houses set in desert sand. From Aus, knobby tires come into play for the roughly 230 kilometers to Helmeringhausen.

Over around 310 kilometers you'll cross the oldest desert stage of this Namib Desert motorcycle leg. The national park stretches almost 500 kilometers and is home to the world's highest sand dunes, some up to 300 meters tall.

This staged Namibia motorcycle tour takes a break from the saddle today: an organized 4x4 vehicle brings you to the world-famous dunes of Sossusvlei, Deadvlei and the Big Daddy Dune, terrain unsuitable for your own motorcycle.

Via Walvis Bay, this Swakopmund–Windhoek leg of the motorcycle tour reaches Namibia's most popular seaside resort after around 380 kilometers. German colonial-era architecture still shapes the townscape on the South Atlantic today.

This Namibia motorcycle tour for experienced riders reaches the capital, Windhoek, after around 320 kilometers. The Christ Church, National Museum and Joe's Beer House showcase the blend of African and European culture.

Around 480 kilometers take you on this off-road motorcycle adventure in southern Africa to the Giant's Playground near Keetmanshoop, where huge boulders look as if stacked by giant hands. Quiver trees line the last kilometers of the day.

This Kalahari motorcycle leg takes you around 460 kilometers back to Upington, where cotton, dates and, these days, good wine shape the surrounding area. The border between Namibia and South Africa lies behind you.

Around 400 kilometers bring you on this Namibia motorcycle tour to the Big Hole of Kimberley, from which over 2,722 kilograms of diamonds were extracted. The Diamond Museum with its De Beers Hall displays rough diamonds and replicas.

On the final roughly 460 kilometers of this Namibia adventure-bike tour, you'll visit a game farm to cool off before the motorcycles are returned in the evening. A shared South African dinner brings the group together one last time.

To close out this guided Namibia motorcycle tour, a transfer takes you to the airport in Johannesburg. From here you begin your individual journey home – with plenty of gravel-road kilometers in your memory.