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Originally Posted by itchyfeet38
Quite a few parks in Namibia are primarily protecting scenery eg Namib Naukluft/Sossusvlei and you won't have any issues riding through on a bike. Terrain eg rocks or sand will potentially be more of an issue. Etosha is a no no for obvious reasons. There are relatively little visited parks in the Caprivi eg Mudumu, Bwabwata that either have no meaningful gate or will possibly let you through on a bike but I wouldn't recommend it. I would be far more wary of elephant than any cats simply because they are far more commonly encountered and more prone to be aggressive with a bike/person than a car. I wouldn't want to try and outrun an angry elephant on a bike over rough ground/deep sand.
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Other than the parks that have official transit routes (like the Caprivi), bikes are not allowed in National parks in Namibia. This is true e.g for Etosha, but also for Sossusvlei (I was not allowed to enter in early 2014).
In general, the only African country that does not have any restrictions on bikes entering regular parks is Uganda, all others prohibit bikes unless its an official transit route). I agree that cats aren't an issue, but elephants and buffaloes are. I did have a close encounter with an angry elephant bull in Zambia outside a park, which luckily I managed to outrun on a sandy track. It's quite a story to tell in hindsight, but not an experience I wish to repeat.
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