Grootberg Lodge
This luxury lodge is on the edge of the Etendeka Plateau with views of wide-open plains. This is the reason why you’ll brave the road up the mountain and swipe your credit card at the top. (Don’t worry: If the road is too much for your vehicle you’ll be fetched in a Land Cruiser.)
Grootberg Lodge is the kind of place where you can go on a guided hike to find elephants and have a massage afterwards. Or just sit quietly at the lodge waterhole and watch baboons, kudu and springbok quench their thirst.
Where? 96 km west of Kamanjab on the C40. GPS: S19.85137 E14.13320
Rates: Double room R3 165 per night; single room R2 105; foursleeper family room R5 460.
Contact: 00 264 61 228 104; grootberg.com