Why this ride
A remote mixed-surface corridor with strong terrain and adventure-riding value. It links naturally to Great Escarpment and Namib views.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Spreetshoogte Pass starting at Windhoek
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 222 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 4 h 59
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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Editorial context
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Access context
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Seasonal context
May-Sep
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Windhoek
Windhoek sits at about 1,700 metres in the middle of Namibia, in a bowl of hills that gives it a cooler, drier climate than most of the country. It is the capital and by far the largest city, with a population approaching three hundred thousand, and a mix of German colonial buildings, modern shopping centres and sprawling townships. The Christuskirche, a Lutheran church with a pale stone facade, stands on a hill in the middle of the town and has become the city's best-known landmark.
Read the complete Windhoek write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Windhoek sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Spreetshoogte Pass.
2. Spreetshoogte Pass
Spreetshoogte is the pass that makes you grip the bars a little tighter, and then grin inside your helmet. It drops the Khomas Hochland highlands down to the edge of the Namib desert in one dramatic fall, and it is among the steepest in Namibia, with gradients that reach something like one in seven in places. The gravel road is cut into the face of the escarpment, and from the top the view is immense: a plain of red sand and pale grass, flat and empty to the horizon, with the dark lines of the Naukluft mountains running along the south.
Read the complete Spreetshoogte Pass write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Spreetshoogte Pass comes up 92 km in. Next is Solitaire.
3. Solitaire
Solitaire is not so much a town as a fuel pump, a cafe and a graveyard of rusting cars in the middle of the Namibian desert, and it is one of the most reliable landmarks on the gravel road between Walvis Bay and Sesriem. The name suits it: there is nothing else for a long way in any direction, only stony plains, camelthorn trees and the far wall of the escarpment. The settlement sits on the edge of the Namib-Naukluft Park, on the C14, where the plateau of central Namibia drops toward the Atlantic.
Read the complete Solitaire write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
222 km in you reach Solitaire.
Recorded source links
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