pupa Falls Lodge offers a wide range of activities that give you a rare opportunity to explore this fascinating corner of the world.

Visit to Himba settlement (included in full-board price)
Sundowner (included in full-board price)
Rafting (extra)
Bird-watching trip by boat (extra)
Visit to Epupa Falls (included in full-board price)
Hiking (included in full-board price)

Visit to Himba settlement (included in full-board price)

Join one of our local Himba guides as they take you through one of the small Himba villages in the region and learn how these fascinating nomadic people live, work, think and worship. You will be allowed to take photographs and will also be taken for a private visit to a traditional Himba graveyard.

Sundowner (included in full-board price)

Every evening approximately 1 hour before sunset, we take you in our open safari vehicle to one of the hills overlooking the Epupa Falls for a sundowner as the surrounding desert landscape explodes in colors and fascinating shadows. Guests staying for 2 nights also have the option of enjoying their sundowner on one of the white sand beaches on our private island, overlooking the Kunene river. All drinks and snacks are complementary.

Rafting (extra)

For those of our guests who want more than just to gaze at the river, we offer half-day and full-day rafting or canoeing trips down the gentle Kunene river. After taking you to our upriver launch station in our open safari vehicle, your qualified guide will provide you with all equipment needed and brief you on the day's expedition. He will then lead you on a gentle cruise down the river, with ample time to stop and enjoy the scenery, watch the birds and the crocodiles sunbathing on the banks, and take photographs. En route we will stop along the river banks for refreshments. A delicious lunch package is included in the full-day trip.

We have two rafts to choose between:

• An 8-seater raft where our guides do all of the paddling and maneuvering for you
• Six 2-seater "crocs" where you do the paddling together with your rafting partner

No advance rafting experience is required.

Bird Watching Trip by Boat (extra)

For bird lovers, we offer half-day river birding trips where our expert guide will point out some of our 238 different species that inhabit the Kunene region, including cinderella waxbills, rufus-tailed palm-thrushes (a permanent resident at our camp), Rüppell's korhans (one of the regions 10 endemic birds), hornbills, paradise fly catchers, goliath herons, fish eagles, various bee-eaters, kingfishers ranging from the giant to the tiny malachite kingfisher, louries, bulbuls, rollers (purple, lilac, breasted, and European), lovebirds, golden and lesser masked weavers, and scarlet-breasted sunbirds, to name just a few. This is as close to nature as you will get, and a truly soothing way to spend your morning or afternoon.

Visit to Epupa Falls (included in full-board price)

Every day, we offer a guided walk to Epupa Falls with the option of taking a dip in one of the many rock pools or in the shallow water before the falls themselves. The walk will take you past the calm waters before the dramatic falls where the Himba people often come to wash their clothes, bathe, or play in the water. Finally, you will be taken to the best lookouts of the falls further downstream.
The falls are a total of 700 meter long with a height of 35 meters, including rapids. Depending on the season, the falls have a typical flow from 20 (winter) to 800 m3 (summer) of water per second.

Hiking (included in full-board price)

At Epupa Falls Lodge, we provide maps for half-day, self-guided hikes. We take you along the river or into the surrounding hills to explore the flora and fauna of the Kaokoland and enjoy stunning views of the Kunene snaking its way through the dry desert landscape. During your hike you are likely to come across large Euphorbia bushes (whose poisonous milky-white latex has been used by the Himba for hunting for centuries), rose quartz crystals, mopane scrub, and the flat-topped umbrella thorn with the almost Mexican name: Acacia tortilis.