Hey Guys! We are planning to make a 10-11 days self-driving trip in Namibia in late September- early October. I am reading everywhere that 6-12 months is the ideal to book car and accommodation in advance. For other reasons, we will be able to buy the flight tickets in the first days of July and also start booking cars and lodges. We don’t want to camp and we would try to do as low budget as possible (appr. 2000-2500 EUR in total excluding flight tickets). But I am really in doubt if we are too late and maybe we should postpone the trip for next year, and start the booking earlier. We are flexible, so we don’t mind staying 30-60 min drive from the spots (i.e. in Sossusvlei or Etosha) in order to find cheaper alternatives and we would do the classic Windhoek-Sossusvlei-Swakopmund-Spitzkoppe-Damarland-Etosha route, so I am not sure if we even need 4x4 and maybe an SUV would be sufficient. Booking.com does not show many options, and what I could find, those are way out of our budgets, so this is why I am in doubt, or maybe I am just searching wrongly. Any suggestions are welcome.   submitted by   /u/Gerbonne [link]   [comments]