Highlights

• Wilderness Etosha is the only camp with exclusive access to an approximately 38 kilometre loop in western Etosha National Park, closed to self-drivers and other properties.
• The private Hobatere Concession offers a quieter, more flexible counterpoint to the park, with walking safaris, night drives and stargazing under vast Namibian skies.
• Guests enjoy private access to the Miernes (Ant's Nest) waterhole inside the park, for premium wildlife viewing away from the crowds.
• With just eight twin suites, the camp offers a low-density safari with fewer vehicles and uncrowded sightings.
• A research-led approach, with a dedicated scientist, camera-trap programme and live monitoring displays, lets guests see conservation science in action.

Destination: Wilderness Etosha is located within the Hobatere Concession on the western boundary of Etosha National Park. While neighbouring one of Africa's best-known wildlife destinations, Hobatere offers a markedly different landscape. Rocky mountains, dry river systems, natural springs and open savannah replace the expansive salt pans and open plains more commonly associated with Etosha.

Hobatere forms part of the Etosha–Skeleton Coast land bridge, a conservation landscape spanning approximately 55,000 km² in north-west Namibia. Linking Etosha National Park, communal conservancies and the Skeleton Coast, it enables wildlife to move across the landscape in response to rainfall, water availability and seasonal resources. Fourteen communal conservancies form the heart of this connected ecosystem, supporting both wildlife movement and community-based conservation.

Experience: Located on a private concession bordering Etosha National Park, Wilderness Etosha offers access to a landscape seldom explored by visitors to Namibia. The varied terrain provides opportunities to experience a different side of the greater Etosha ecosystem, where wildlife, geology and climate are closely connected. Guiding will focus on interpreting the landscape as well as its wildlife, drawing on current research to provide insight into animal behaviour, movement and adaptation. As research programmes develop, guests may also have opportunities to learn more about ongoing conservation work within the concession.

Game drives across the concession and into Etosha National Park, guided walks and a hide at a waterhole will offer different ways to experience the area, while research and conservation interpretation will bring the wider story to life.

Purpose: Wilderness Etosha has been established to support the long-term protection of an important conservation landscape beyond the boundaries of Etosha National Park. This corridor extends the greater Etosha ecosystem, enabling wildlife to move, adapt, and survive beyond protected borders. Through research partnerships and observation, Wilderness Etosha contributes to understanding and protecting this under-documented system.

Wildlife: Preliminary camera trap surveys have recorded 25 mammal species within the Hobatere Concession, highlighting the ecological diversity of this connected landscape. Key species recorded include elephant, lion, leopard, cheetah, brown hyena, spotted hyena, giraffe, Hartmann's mountain zebra, endemic black-faced impala, kudu and oryx.

The concession also supports a variety of smaller and nocturnal mammals, including caracal, honey badger, African wildcat, black mongoose, aardwolf and aardvark.

Wilderness Etosha: Where Etosha's great salt pan gives way to rugged mountains and winding dry riverbeds, another Namibia begins. This is Hobatere – a landscape of hidden springs, ancient elephant paths and remarkable resilience, where wildlife moves beyond the boundaries of the national park and into one of the country's last great connected ecosystems. Here, elephants climb rocky slopes in search of food, lions roam quiet valleys, and the smallest signs in the sand reveal stories of survival. It is a place that rewards curiosity as much as spectacle; every journey shaped by movement, adaptation and discovery. Set within this vital ecological corridor, Wilderness Etosha offers a window into one of Namibia's least explored conservation landscapes, where research, wilderness and community converge.