Fish River Lodge

At 45 000ha, the park is a vast and rugged landscape of flat-topped rocky mountains and dry plains. A myriad of washes and side ravines carve deep furrows down to the main canyon. Fascinating plants and trees adapted to this harsh environment add splashes of green and feed the wildlife that survive against the odds.

To preserve this amazing part of Namibia, Canyon Nature Park has joined the partnership of the Greater Fish River Canyon Complex, a trans boundary collaboration between parks and conservation agencies and private landowners in the Richtersveld (South Africa), the Huns mountains and /Ais /Ais Game Park, Namibia. The collaboration focuses on a broad-based approach to conservation and sustainable natural resource management and socio-economic development.

Previously a marginalised farming area, the biodiversity of this arid region was threatened by agricultural activities. Canyon Nature Park has turned the fortunes of the fauna and flora around by embracing a return to wildlife conservation and low-impact tourism as a means to socio-economic development in the southern parts of the country.

Two farms — Soutkuil (where the lodge and canyon are located) and Vergeleë (to its northwest) have been joined to make up the Canyon Nature Park.