What you require:
- Passport valid for 6 months for each person, including babies.
- SA drivers license.
- Vehicle registration documents, including those for trailers & caravans
- Authorization document from bank if your vehicle is still financed
- One emergency triangle per vehicle
- One ZA sticker per vehicle, trailer or caravan
- Other precautions
- Visum required for more than a 90 vacation
- Medical insurance
- Authorization from your vehicle insurer
- Most border post does have card machines, but always have enough cash on you in case of a problem. N$1=R1.
- In winter Namibians turns their clock back by an hour. (1st Sunday in April to 1st Sunday in September)
- Always fill up with fuel where you can.
- Cellphone. Setup "roaming" up front. Costs will be higher.
- There is a malaria risk in the wetter northern parts.
- Using Tracks4Africa is suggested, especially if you intend to visit remote places.
Regulations on what you may take in or not:
- Per Person
- Two cartons sigarettes, 50 sigars, 2lt wine, 1lt of the hard stuff
- No firewood
- No pork
- No red meat, unless it is coocked
- Bringing fish back to SA, you will need a permit from the SA Fisheries Department
Border Posts Namibia - SA
- Welverdiend - Mata-Mata
- You have to stay 2 nights in the Kgalagadi TFP to exit at Mata-Mata to Namibia. Your passport needs to be stamped at Twee-Rivieren.
- Ariamsvlei - Nakop - B3-N10
- Velloorsdrif - Onseepkans C10-R358
- Oranjemund - Alexanderbaai C13-R382
- Rosh Pinah - Sendelingsdrift Pont crossing. C13-R382
