Etosha · 25 km from the Andersson Gate

Toshari Campsite

Etosha National Park, Namibia

Three campsites on a green lawn under mopane trees, twenty-five kilometres from the Andersson Gate. Each has its own private ablution with hot water, a power point and a braai, with the lodge pools and restaurant alongside.

The stay

Three sites, and a bathroom of your own

Camping near Etosha usually means a shared ablution block. Toshari has three sites and each one has its own private bathroom with hot and cold water, which at camping rates is unusual anywhere in Namibia.

The sites sit on a green lawn under mopane trees, with electric lighting, a 220V power outlet and a braai area at each, and firewood supplied. Up to five people per site.

Campers use the lodge alongside: three swimming pools, the restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, the bar with its long wine list, and the garden with its chess and checkers tables. Guided game drives into Etosha leave from here.

Private campsite on the lawn at Toshari

Campsite with its own ablution block

Where you will sleep

Accommodation at Toshari Campsite

Campsites first, then the rooms at the lodge if you would rather not pitch a tent.

Private campsite on the lawn at Toshari

Campsite with its own ablution block

Braai area at a campsite

Shaded pitch under the mopane trees

Green lawn and garden at the campsite

One of the three swimming pools

Restaurant and terrace at Toshari

Bar and lounge

Private Campsite

Only three campsites, set on a green lawn under shade trees.
The thing that makes them unusual is that each site has its own private ablution with hot and cold water — no shared block, which is rare at this price anywhere in Namibia.
Each site also has electric lighting, a 220V power outlet and braai facilities, and firewood is supplied.
A maximum of five people per site. Campers are welcome to use the lodge facilities — the pools, the bar and the restaurant.

Three sites is not many. If you are planning around this one, book it early.

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Braai area at a campsite

Shaded pitch under the mopane trees

Green lawn and garden at the campsite

One of the three swimming pools

Restaurant and terrace at Toshari

Bar and lounge

Garden and seating areas

Mopane forest around the lodge

Standard Room

Eighteen comfortable, spacious rooms for two people.
The en-suite bathroom has a shower, a hairdryer and bathrobes. Inside there is a safe, air-conditioning and a tea and coffee station, with mosquito gauze at the windows.
A small seating area on the patio outside lets you sit out with a drink at the end of the day.

With eighteen of them these are the easiest rooms here to get at short notice.

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Green lawn and garden at the campsite

One of the three swimming pools

Restaurant and terrace at Toshari

Bar and lounge

Garden and seating areas

Mopane forest around the lodge

Private campsite on the lawn at Toshari

Campsite with its own ablution block

Standard Family Room

Three family rooms furnished with a mix of beds — a double and three singles — so a family can spread out without booking two rooms.
Same specification as the standard rooms otherwise: en-suite bathroom with a shower, hairdryer and bathrobes, safe, air-conditioning, tea and coffee station and a patio seating area.

There are only three, so ask early if you are travelling as a family in high season.

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Restaurant and terrace at Toshari

Bar and lounge

Garden and seating areas

Mopane forest around the lodge

Private campsite on the lawn at Toshari

Campsite with its own ablution block

Braai area at a campsite

Shaded pitch under the mopane trees

Luxury Room

Eight luxury rooms, each with its own terrace and set for maximum privacy.
More space and better finishes than the standard rooms, with a hairdryer and bathrobes among the amenities, plus coffee and tea making facilities and a small fridge.
En-suite bathroom with a hot water shower, a safe and air-conditioning.

The step up here is privacy and the terrace as much as the fittings.

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Garden and seating areas

Mopane forest around the lodge

Private campsite on the lawn at Toshari

Campsite with its own ablution block

Braai area at a campsite

Shaded pitch under the mopane trees

Green lawn and garden at the campsite

One of the three swimming pools

Luxury Family Room

Four spacious family rooms with a double bed and two single beds, sleeping up to four.
They come with coffee and tea making facilities and a small fridge, an en-suite bathroom with a hot water shower, a hairdryer and bathrobes, plus a safe and air-conditioning.

Four rooms, so worth asking well ahead in the dry season.

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What to do

Why stay at Toshari?

Twenty-five kilometres from the Andersson Gate on the C38, so Etosha is half an hour away. As everywhere outside the park, the gates open at sunrise and close at sunset, and the waterholes are busiest at both ends of the day — so the drive to the gate comes off your best game-viewing hour. If a night at a floodlit waterhole is the point of your trip, the camps inside the park are the answer and we will say so; Okaukuejo is the one most people want.

What Toshari offers instead is a genuinely pleasant place to come back to, at a price that undercuts most of what is nearer the gate. It sits under a dolomite outcrop in mopane and white seringa forest, which means real shade, and there are three swimming pools for the hours when the park is quiet anyway.

It is also the greenest operation on this road by some distance: entirely solar powered, off-grid, with solar geysers, its own vegetable garden and refuse recycling. If that matters to you, it is worth knowing that here it is the whole system rather than a sign in the bathroom.

Guided game drives into Etosha run from the lodge, with packed lunches available, and you are welcomed with a complimentary drink on arrival — a small thing that people mention.

Before you book

25 km from the Andersson Gate on the C38, between Outjo and the park
The lodge runs entirely on off-grid solar
Free Wi-Fi throughout, with faster internet available on request
Guided Etosha game drives take up to 30 people; packed lunches optional
Park entry fees are payable separately at the gate
Rooms are non-smoking
Rooms at the lodge are on our Toshari Lodge page

Getting into the park

Guided game drives into Etosha from the lodge, with packed lunches available
Self-drive days — the gate is half an hour away and park roads suit a normal car
Walking trails on the property

Things to see

The Etosha pan and its waterholes
Elephant, lion, giraffe, zebra and springbok in the park
Black rhino, which Etosha is one of the better places in Africa to see
The dolomite outcrop and mopane forest around the lodge

Facilities

Three swimming pools
Restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner
Bar with an extensive wine list, and a terrace
Curio shop and laundry service
Chess and checkers tables in the garden
Free Wi-Fi and mobile signal
Conference facility for up to 50, with projector
Card payments accepted

Green credentials

100% solar powered, on an off-grid system
Solar geysers
Onsite vegetable garden
Refuse recycling

Getting there

On the C38 between Outjo and the Andersson Gate
25 km from the park entrance, about half an hour
Tar road to the gate; a normal car is fine

Mopane forest around the lodge

Garden and seating areas

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A look around the campsite and the lodge before you book.

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