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Etosha · 25 km from the Andersson Gate

Toshari Lodge

Etosha National Park, Namibia

A shaded, entirely solar-powered lodge under a dolomite outcrop on the C38, twenty-five kilometres from the Andersson Gate. Rooms at sensible rates, three swimming pools, and three campsites with private bathrooms.

The stay

Shade, three pools and an off-grid solar system

Toshari sits in a forest of mopane and white seringa below an outcrop of dolomite rock, which gives it something most places on this road do not have: real shade, and a bit of elevation to look out over the plains from.

Accommodation runs from eighteen standard rooms through luxury rooms with their own terraces to family rooms sleeping four or five, all air-conditioned with en-suite bathrooms, safes and tea and coffee stations. Rates are sensible for what you get.

The whole lodge runs off-grid on solar, with solar geysers, its own vegetable garden and refuse recycling. There are three swimming pools, a bar with a long wine list, chess and checkers tables in the garden, and a complimentary drink when you arrive.

Toshari Lodge below its dolomite outcrop, near Etosha
Rooms among the mopane and seringa trees

Where you will sleep

Accommodation at Toshari Lodge

Five ways to stay, from a standard room to a campsite with its own bathroom.

Toshari Lodge below its dolomite outcrop, near Etosha
Rooms among the mopane and seringa trees
Standard room interior
En-suite bathroom
Luxury room with its private terrace
Family room with a double and single beds
Patio seating outside a room
Private campsite on the lawn

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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Standard room interior
En-suite bathroom
Luxury room with its private terrace
Family room with a double and single beds
Patio seating outside a room
Private campsite on the lawn
Braai area at a campsite
One of the three swimming pools

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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Luxury room with its private terrace
Family room with a double and single beds
Patio seating outside a room
Private campsite on the lawn
Braai area at a campsite
One of the three swimming pools
Restaurant and terrace at Toshari
Bar and lounge

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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Patio seating outside a room
Private campsite on the lawn
Braai area at a campsite
One of the three swimming pools
Restaurant and terrace at Toshari
Bar and lounge
Garden and seating areas
Mopane forest and plains around the lodge

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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Braai area at a campsite
One of the three swimming pools
Restaurant and terrace at Toshari
Bar and lounge
Garden and seating areas
Mopane forest and plains around the lodge
Toshari Lodge below its dolomite outcrop, near Etosha
Rooms among the mopane and seringa trees

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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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
  • Camping is covered in more detail on our Toshari campsite 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 and plains around the lodge
Garden and seating areas

Photos

Toshari Lodge in pictures

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Video

Etosha’s waterholes on film

Game coming in to drink, half an hour up the road from the lodge.

Etosha waterholes

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