Safarihoek stands on a hill in the 60,000-hectare Etosha Heights Private Reserve, which shares a 65-kilometre boundary with Etosha National Park. Its 11 thatched chalets all have private decks looking over the plains, and the main building is set on an elevated deck with a swimming pool. The lodge's best-known feature is a double-storey photographic hide overlooking a natural waterhole, with charging points and day beds for photographers who want to spend hours there. Activities are morning and afternoon game drives, night drives, guided walks, birding and rhino viewing — the reserve holds both black and white rhino and runs an anti-poaching programme. The lodge runs on solar power.
What sets it apart
Its two-level photographic hide, built for long sessions rather than short stops, is the reason most guests come.
Who it suits
Wildlife photography; rhino; a private-reserve alternative to the park itself.
The essentials
| Country | Namibia |
| Where | Etosha Heights Private Reserve, on the south-western boundary of Etosha National Park |
| Property type | lodge |
| Rooms | 11 chalets — 8 luxury, 2 classic, 1 family |
What it costs
Safarihoek Lodge publishes its own rates. Published on the official site: "NAD 8,945 — NAD 12,765 per night", per https://naturalselection.travel/camps/safarihoek, as listed September 2026.
Rates move by season and are almost always quoted per person per night sharing, so read the property's own page before you budget.
About the photographs
The pictures on this page are stock photographs of African bush and desert country, chosen to suggest the kind of landscape you find around the Etosha country of northern Namibia. They are not photographs of this property, and we cannot verify where any of them was taken — a stock library records the photographer, not the place. We use them rather than borrow the property's own marketing images, which would imply we had been there. For pictures of the rooms, see the property's own site.