Why this ride
A remote long-distance corridor with sparse services and distinctive scenery. It links naturally to Bwabwata and Zambezi wetlands.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Caprivi Trans-Zambezi Road
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 515 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 32
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Editorial context
Coordinates are curated start-via-end route seeds. They are not a surveyed centreline or navigation geometry. Run road snapping, topology checks, access checks and a live-status review before publication.
Access context
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Seasonal context
May-Sep
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Rundu
Rundu is where Namibia's long, dry north suddenly turns green. The town sits on the south bank of the Okavango River, and across the water, close enough to hear the roosters, is Angola. It is the capital of the Kavango East region and a proper working town of nearly sixty thousand people, which in this part of the country makes it a metropolis. After hundreds of kilometres of bush and cattle fences on the tar road from the south, the first sight of reed beds, dugout canoes and glittering river is a small shock.
Read the complete Rundu write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Rundu sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Divundu.
2. Divundu
Divundu is a crossroads in a place that otherwise barely has roads. It lies where the Okavango River, having come down from Angola and spread out across the sand, squeezes through a rocky step known as Popa Falls before it fans into the great delta far to the south. The settlement, along with neighbouring Bagani, sits inside the western end of the Caprivi Strip, a thin finger of Namibia that Germany acquired from Britain in 1890 in a deal that also traded away Zanzibar. A boundary drawn in distant offices still shapes how this landscape looks on the map.
Read the complete Divundu write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Divundu comes up 244 km in. Next is Katima Mulilo.
3. Katima Mulilo
At the far end of the Caprivi Strip the road finally runs out of Namibia. Katima Mulilo stands on the Zambezi River, a wide, slow, brown stretch of water that here forms the border with Zambia, and the town's name is commonly translated from Lozi as something like putting out the fire, a reference to the rapids upstream. It is the capital of the Zambezi region, with about twenty-five thousand people, and across the river and a short bridge lies Sesheke in Zambia, drawn in on every local conversation.
Read the complete Katima Mulilo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
515 km in you reach Katima Mulilo.