A small Namibian company built on the places its founders know best, and on travelling the way friends do.
Brooklyn Gaoseb and John-Isaac Kaulinge met coaching and setting routes at a climbing gym in Windhoek. Long before that, the domes of Spitzkoppe were their backyard: family lived close by, and they spent their childhood scrambling the boulder fields and learning how the morning sun warms the rock.
Formal guide training gave structure to what they already knew, and they began taking climbers onto the Spitzkoppe faces. Private safari guiding followed, across northern Namibia and into the Caprivi and Bwabwata, where years on gravel roads taught them where elephants cross and where lions rest in the camelthorn shade.
Rufous Heron brings those two halves together: steep granite, desert passes, quiet waterholes and campfire hospitality, at the unhurried pace of a trip with friends. Brooklyn and John-Isaac guide many of the trips themselves, and as the company grows they work with guides they know and trust.
“This is where we grew up. These are the landscapes we know. And now, we get to share them.”
Whoever guides your trip, it is run the way Brooklyn and John-Isaac run theirs: personal, unhurried and private.
Co-founder and guide
Spent much of growing up around Spitzkoppe, with family close by, long before calling it climbing. A job at a climbing gym turned it into a profession; guide training followed, and now private safaris too.
+264 81 209 9631Co-founder and guide
Started out alongside Brooklyn at a climbing gym and trained as a climbing guide. Together they moved into private safari guiding in northern Namibia, including the Caprivi region and Bwabwata National Park.
+264 81 736 7244Three words we come back to on every trip.
We wait. Engines off, voices down, until animals forget the vehicle and get on with their day.
Conservancies, rock-art sites and the people who live beside the parks are hosts, not backdrops.
Leave-no-trace on the rock and in camp, so the granite and the plains stay as we found them.
Tell us your dates, group size and what you’d like to see. We’ll reply personally with a route and a quote.
