Sossusvlei · Etosha · Travel Medicine
Sossusvlei is bone dry. Etosha's waterholes are not.
Get Malarone (atovaquone-proguanil) before you fly into Windhoek. One pill a day, started a day or two before you reach Etosha, keeps chloroquine-resistant malaria off the northern half of your loop. Ready at your pharmacy before you board.
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The classic Namibia trip is two countries in one. The red dunes of Sossusvlei and Deadvlei sit in the malaria-free Namib, where the air is too dry for the mosquito to breed. Then you drive north to Etosha, and the picture changes. Etosha National Park sits inside the northern belt where CDC recommends malaria chemoprophylaxis for every traveler, alongside Kunene, Kavango, Oshikoto, and the rest of the north. Every strain of Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa is treated as chloroquine-resistant, transmission peaks February through April on the back of the rains, and Etosha's floodlit waterholes draw game at exactly the dusk-to-dawn hours when Anopheles mosquitoes bite. Once you leave Windhoek, the gap between a self-drive camp and a real pharmacy is measured in hundreds of kilometres of gravel. Sort the antimalarial before you fly.
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- It depends on where the trip goes, and most Namibia itineraries go to both. Sossusvlei, Deadvlei, and the Namib-Naukluft dunes are malaria-free, because the desert is too dry for Anopheles mosquitoes to breed. Etosha National Park is different. Etosha sits in Namibia's northern belt, where CDC recommends malaria chemoprophylaxis for all travelers, alongside the Kunene, Kavango, Oshikoto, and Omusati regions. Every strain of Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa is treated as chloroquine-resistant, transmission peaks February through April after the rains, and Anopheles activity does not switch off in the shoulder months. Because the standard Namibia loop pairs the malaria-free dunes with malaria-belt Etosha on one trip, the simplest answer for most travelers is to carry a chemoprophylaxis like Malarone and take it for the Etosha and northern leg.
Sort the malaria pill before the drive north to Etosha.
One visit, three prescriptions for the trip you have been planning for years. Reviewed by a US-licensed provider, ready at your pharmacy before you fly to Namibia.