Directions to Etosha National Park:

Etosha is approximately 6 hours from Windhoek by road. The road is good tarmac and can easily be driven in one day.

By the Eatern route Etosha is 553km north of Windhoek . Drive to Von Lindenquist Gate via Otjiwarongo and Tsumeb, then to Namutoni rest camp, which is approximately 11km inside the park. The road is tarred all the way.

Distance table for travel in Namibia:

Ariamsvlei / Nakop
1118	Buitepos
1003	115	Gobabis
1250	772	657	Grootfontein
1223	745	630	645	Hentiesbay
1261	783	668	425	345	Kamanjab
333	802	687	934	907	945	Keetmanshoop
579	1136	1021	1268	923	1279	334	Lüderitz
537	581	466	713	686	724	221	555	Mariental
1331	853	738	167	677	506	1015	1349	794	Namutoni
306	1106	991	1238	1211	1249	304	609	525	1319	Noordoewer
1233	755	640	397	579	262	917	1253	696	123	1221	Okaukuejo
1471	993	878	307	817	646	1155	1489	934	210	1459	333	Ondangwa
1043	565	450	207	389	218	727	1061	506	288	1031	190	428	Otjiwarongo
1658	1180	1065	494	1143	272	1342	1676	1121	469	1646	534	187	615	Ruacana
1498	1020	905	248	893	645	1182	1516	961	415	1486	617	555	455	742	Rundu
1156	678	563	578	67	412	840	731	619	659	1144	561	799	371	684	826	Swakopmund
1224	746	631	60	570	399	907	1242	687	107	1241	345	247	181	434	308	552	Tsumeb
798	320	205	452	466	463	482	816	261	533	786	435	673	245	860	700	356	426	Windhoek

Entrance Gates for Etosha National Park:

The entrance gate to the park in the east is called Andersson Gate in honour of the explorer Charles Andersson who teamed with Francis Galton to become the first Europeans to record the existence of Etosha Pan when they reached Namutoni in 1851.

Von Lindequist Gate is the eastern entrance to the park. The name is in honour of the Governor of the then German South West Africa who had the foresight to proclaim Etosha a game reserve on 22 March 1907.

The Galton Gate is the western entrance to the park. The name is in honour of the explorer Francis Galton who was the first European together with Charles Andersson to see the Etosha Pan in 1851.

A fourth gate is now open, namely the Nehale Lya Mpingana Gate. The gate is named after a king of the former Owamboland. The gate is near Andoni Plains.

In the western part of the park there is a fourth camp called Otjovazandu. It is not a rest camp but just a station for park staff working in that region. The correct spelling is Otjovazandu and the meaning of it is “place of the young men”. Warriors use to utilise the nearby perennial spring as an outpost for watering their cattle.