Namibia

Travel Namibia

If you travel to Namibia on your gap year you’ll be visiting one of Africa’s best kept secrets. Travelling to Namibia enables you to see some of Africa’s best wildlife in a country which attracts far few visitors than more famous destinations such as South Africa and Kenya. A large portion desert, Namibia is a fascinating and educational destination at which to spend your gap year or career break. Blessed with rich natural resources, a solid modern infrastructure and diverse traditional cultures, it is a beautiful country of vast potential.

An essential place to visit if you travel to Namibia is Etosha National Park, which covers 8000 miles and is home to an incredible range of wildlife – including leopard and cheetah. Other great places to visit if you’re travelling to Namibia include the awesome Namibia Fish River Canyon and Sossusvlei.

An excellent option for gap year Namibia travel if you’d like to get involved with wildlife conservation on your gap year is to take part in volunteer work on one of Real Gap’s excellent Namibia volunteer programmes. For example you could travel to Namibia and care for orphaned or injured animals at the inspirational ‘Noah’s Ark’ project.

Namibia Gap Year

Volunteer in Namibia

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	Bushman Clinic and Medical Project Namibia

Learn and build on your medical skills at a large practice, before using them at a rural Bushman clinic. There’s also the chance to nurse animals at a wildlife sanctuary – your patients could be baby baboons or tamed cheetahs.


	Desert Elephant Conservation Namibia

Go back to basics in the Namib Desert as you take part in projects that help elephants and landowners to live together in harmony. You’ll go on a unique elephant patrol and get involved in building projects.


	Namibia Environmental and Cheetah Conservation

Get close to the fastest mammal in the world! Monitor cheetahs and lions and help restore the plains back to their natural state. You’ll play a vital role in preserving African wildlife for the future.


	Namibia Field Guide Training Programme

Train to be a tourist guide in South Africa and learn about birds, mammals, reptiles, geology and more. You’ll be surrounded by stunning scenery and a huge variety of wildlife!


	Namibia Medical Volunteer

Help out in hospitals and rural clinics, giving valuable support to doctors and nurses. Those with medical experience will diagnose illnesses and treat injuries – those without will be supervised and their help will be just as valuable.


	Namibia Wildlife Sanctuary

Get stuck into the demanding but highly rewarding work of caring for sick animals, building enclosures, darting and relocating animals, and helping release them into natural surroundings.


	Noah's Ark Wildlife Conservation Namibia

Get hands-on with orphaned and injured animals. The centre cares for big cats, baboons, crocodiles and many others, and is also working to tackle the problem of wild animals attacking farmers’ livestock.