Welcome in unique and isolated Africa!

The Kaokoveld is inhabited by the Bantu-speaking Herero, Ovahimba, and Ovatjimba nomadic pastoralists. Kaokoveld is bordered by Angola and the Kunene River to the north, the Owambo geographic region to the east, the Hoanib River to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

It is an arid, sparsely populated, and extremely isolated region that was originally settled by the Herero, who migrated from central Africa in the mid-16th century. In the 1870s Boers trekking northwestward from western Transvaal settled in Kaokoveld for a time before pressing on to Angola; the ruins of their buildings can be seen at Otjitunduwa and Kaoko Otavi.

Much of inland Kaokoveld is mountainous, with an average elevation of about 4,500 feet (1,400 m). Numerous relatively short, rugged mountain ranges in the region are covered with a variety of grasses, succulents, and scattered dwarf trees.