RIDING AFRICA'S WILD WEST

A NAMIBIAN MOTORCYCLE ADVENTURE

- Luke Phillips

If there was ever a place to ride that sounded so wild, so beautiful, so outrageous that you find yourself feeling that it must be fictitious, then that place could only be Namibia. It's a country so remarkable and diverse that it takes the crown as not only one of the best countries to motorcycle through in Africa, but in the entire world.

Before I arrived in Namibia, I'd heard a lot about it from friends, colleagues, and locals I'd met on the route through the African continent. The conversations always went the same way: "Oh, you're heading south, make sure you leave enough time for Namibia. You'll be blown away!" It was intriguing considering most of these conversations took place over 2,000 miles and several countries from Namibia. What made this place so special? Why were people suggesting I hightail it across a continent to make sure I could spend the lion's share of my trip in this one country? There was only one way to find out.