Kalahari Hunting
Untamed Kalahari: Africa's Finest
Kalahari hunting offers a distinctive connection with the African wilderness.
Our family is eager to share the animals, people, flora and fauna, and the climate of the vast Kalahari Desert with you.
The Kalahari is a place where titles, positions, and material wealth hold little importance - it's where you can be true to yourself and drop your "pose." What a relief!
Uitspan Ranch, located in the Kalahari region of Namibia, serves as our base. "Uitspan," meaning a place to unwind and temporarily call home in Afrikaans, encapsulates our ethos.
The profound love and passion we harbor for this distinctive slice of Africa, Namibia, sparked the creation of our business and this website. Born and bred here, we are a family that has the privilege of calling this place our home.
Kalahari Hunting... sharing our passion
We take pleasure in sharing our love and passion for the Kalahari, hunting, and the great outdoors with special individuals.
We hope our website conveys the essence of the Kalahari to you. Here, you may find comprehensive information about hunting in the Kalahari and Namibia.
We consider ourselves fortunate to work in an "office" that is closer to the Creator than any human-made structure. We are enveloped by the world's largest unbroken expanse of sand, and the sky serves as our canopy.
Even after all these years, each day is still an adventure: the Kalahari is our stage, and the animals are our cast. Observing them showcase their distinctive talents and adaptability is perpetually awe-inspiring.
The greatest Scriptwriter of all time has made it an extraordinary performance to be a part of.
It is impossible to live and hunt in the Kalahari of Namibia and not to see in nature the Creator of all ....
"When I consider thy heavens,
the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man,
that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels,
and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;
thou hast put all things under his feet:
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!"
~ Psalm 8:3-9
Follow in the footsteps of the Bushmen and discover the uniqueness of hunting in the great Kalahari of Namibia.
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Did you know? Pangolins have poor sight and do not have any external ears, although their hearing is very good. Their sense of scent is well developed and they locate ants nests by smell. |
Uitspan Hunting Safaris is registered with the Namibia Tourism Board as a Tour and Safari Operator, holding the registration number TSO01055.
Meaning of "Uitspan"
'Uitspan' is an Afrikaans word that means place of rest.
When the Boer settlers moved inland in Southern Africa in the 1800's, they used ox carts. When they found a spot with game, water and green grass, they arranged their ox carts into a circular laager for protection against wild animals and stopped for a rest.
They referred to such an action of relaxation for man and beast, as Uitspan.
(Picture above of our ancestors.)
Did you know? Greater Southern Kudus are famous for their ability to jump high fences. A 2 m (6.56 ft) fence is easily jumped while a 3 m (9.84 ft) high fence is jumped spontaneously. These strong jumpers are known to jump up to 3.5 m (11.48 ft) under stress. |
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Did you know? Some animals have one sense more than man!The flehmen response is a particular type of curling of the upper lip in ungulates, felids and many other mammals. This action facilitates the transfer of pheromones and other scents into the vomeronasal organ, also called the Jacobson's Organ.This behavior allows animals to detect scents (for example from urine) of other members of their species or clues to the presence of prey. Flehming allows the animals to determine several factors, including the presence or absence of estrus, the physiological state of the animal, and how long ago the animal passed by. This particular response is recognizable in males when smelling the urine of a females in heat. |