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Landsberg Campsites
Four private campsites among red granite boulders on Farm Landsberg, a family cattle farm in the Tiras Mountains near Helmeringhausen, with 4x4 routes and a waterhole.
Farm Landsberg is a working farm in a valley of the Tiras Mountains in southern Namibia, owned and run by the Izko family since 1975. It started out as a karakul sheep farm and now raises Simmentaler and Brahman cattle and Namib Dorper sheep, and produces organic jojoba oil. The family has opened a handful of campsites among the red granite boulders. It is a good pick if you want a quiet night on a real farm with your own space.
What to expect
There are four named sites: Black Eagle, Steppe Eagle and Snake Eagle, plus Martial Eagle for large groups and overland trucks. Sites have private hot showers, a large shaded porch, a grill area and fire pit, and 12V points for fridges (Harrison plug) and charging. Reception has a small curio shop and wifi. A waterhole sits a short walk from the sites.
The farm has 4x4 routes from beginner to advanced, running from dry riverbeds up to the plateau. You can also hike and bird-watch, and mountain bikers can ride the farm roads if they bring their own bike. Night drives run in season. The guided farm drive was paused at last check because the vehicle was being repaired.
Practical details
- Phone +264 83 783 7037, WhatsApp +264 81 235 1815, bookings@farmlandsberg.com.
- Address: Farm Landsberg No. 6, Helmeringhausen, ǁKaras Region.
- Online booking is through NightsBridge. You can also book directly by email.
Good to know
Helmeringhausen, the nearest dot on the map, is a private farm with a country hotel, not a town. Fill up and stock up before you arrive.
Last updated 7 October 2026. Sources: Farm Landsberg, Farm Landsberg, about us, Farm Landsberg, campsites, Farm Landsberg, activities, Wikipedia, Helmeringhausen.
Five million pelts, then the eagles got a campsite
In 1979 Namibia shipped close to five million karakul lamb pelts to Europe. Landsberg was a young farm then (its own site says it was established in 1975, the Tiras conservancy’s page says 1977) and it ran karakul on a big scale. In the 1980s the fur market fell apart. A forum regular who knew the place in 2005 still described a working farm with 2,000 sheep and 500 cattle.
The Izkos and the farm next door
An undated conservancy page credits Wilfried Izko with more than thirty years on Landsberg and with running Weissenborn as well, his parents’ farm elsewhere in the same range. Weissenborn dates from 1929 and the family is in its fourth generation in Namibia. Landsberg itself is about 14,000 hectares at 1,600 metres, split into 25 grazing camps around seven water points that go 100 to 120 metres down.
He and Anneliese Izko used to take full-board guests. Then the guest side closed. In October 2020 the farm turned up on the 4x4 Community forum inviting campers (the post mentions a 1978 Land Cruiser HJ45) and by April 2021 a camper on the Namibia-Forum was describing four new sites near the farmhouse.
What the eagle names are about
Landsberg belongs to the Tiras Mountains Conservancy, which five farmers set up in March 1998 with a biologist, Dr K.E. Gräbner, helping to write nature protection into the rules. Game is shot for the farmers’ own use and to keep numbers in check, not for trophies. Nobody puts out poison for jackals, partly in the hope of sparing vultures, and the conservancy’s farmers kraal their karakul at night under a herder so that predators need not be hunted.
So the granite still has its residents. Dassies live in the boulders in groups of up to 17 females, and black eagles live off the dassies, which make up half of what they eat where dassies are scarce and nine tenths or more where they are plentiful. Courtship flights start in late April and May, and most Namibian pairs lay in June on a cliff ledge. The conservancy’s own notes call klipspringer fairly common in these mountains, say bat-eared foxes are not hunted and come out at night, or by day when they have young, and list the crimson-breasted shrike for Landsberg by name.
Leopards are in the range too, living mostly on dassies and baboons, and cheetah are on the conservancy’s species list. Don’t plan a trip around either. None of the camper accounts mentions seeing a cat.
The track, and where the shade isn’t
The road is the price. The 2021 camper gave it as 24 km on the C27 from Helmeringhausen to the turn-off, then 23 km of farm track through the mountains, about an hour and a half, needing four-wheel drive or good clearance. Writers in 2005 and 2009 said much the same of that side: rocky and slow. The other way in, from the D707 on the Namib side of the range, is sand with a string of farm gates, and one 2005 visitor got stuck in it. The conservancy’s site still describes that approach through Koiimasis, but the 2021 camper wrote that there was no access that way, so ask the farm which side is open before you set off.
The site notes come from that one 2021 camper. Counting out from the farmhouse the order is Black Eagle, Steppe, Snake and Martial, and Black looks back over part of the farm. All four face south-west, so afternoon shade is thin, and the shade roofs are round poles that keep off sun but not rain. A lit game trough is in view after dark, though far enough off that binoculars are needed.
