Meet the Team

We’ve travelled. We’ve adventured. We’ve experienced. We have tons of memories and loads of incredible pictures to prove it. Travel is a lifestyle and one we’ve made our own.

At NTS, we’re a merry bunch of Africans eager to share our world, never forgetting that each itinerary is as unique as the traveller. We may well have different backgrounds and stories, but we all have the same love and passion for tourism, travel and most importantly for Namibia.

Travel Experts

Edward Taylor

When we say NTS is a small family business, Edward is very much a part of that family and the heart of it all. At the heart of who he is, is a passion for travel. Voila. A match made in heaven.

Wilmari Keil

Wilmari is our multi-lingual Swakopmund glamour girl fluent in English, German and Afrikaans. She loves the outdoors, good food, good friends and anything Namibian. She’s an integral part of NTS and we love having her on the team.

Jessica Leuschner

With a background in Journalism, Jessica knows the deepest ins and outs of Namibia. She’s travelled to almost every corner of the country covering media. Whilst it used to be headlines and local news, the best news of all: she’s now a part of the NTS team!

Ashlee Carstens

With a fierce love for her family and deep appreciation of her country, Ashlee is about as Namibian as the sand dunes around her home town of Swakopmund. And she’s fond of big fat capitals followed by at least three exclamations marks - another telltale Namibian trait.

Kirsti Basson

Having grown up with a view over the Atlantic Ocean, Kirsti loves the coast. Small wonder she finds Swakopmund at the top of her favourite places in Namibia. A town with a permanent holiday vibe, nestled between the beach and sand dunes of the Namib Desert. A rare find, much like Kirsti herself.

Bonique Leng

Bonique is cool, calm and collected. She's passionate about travel. She's passionate about Namibia and an asset to have planning your next adventure on tour with NTS.

Anja Fulde

Anja is an asset to the NTS team of travel consultants. She is fun loving and passionate with an eye for detail and an innate love for Namibia.

Julia Timke

Julia loves Namibia, loves people and loves planning holidays for people to Namibia.

Simone Wentzel

Simone is made for the travel industry. It’s in her personality and her passion for Namibia and what lies beyond. It’s easy for her to sell a holiday to Namibia, because she knows it’s the best destination for a holiday hands down. Let her plan your trip and you’ll see why.

Veronica Townsend

Veronica loves travelling. Veronica loves Namibia. Better yet, Veronica loves travelling in Namibia. A super travel expert, she loves to sell what she loves to do, much like the rest of us that make up the team at NTS.

Isabel Cazorla

Isabel loves the sea, wildlife and interesting culture, which combined with the never-ending picture perfect landscapes and unique wonder, makes Namibia (and southern Africa as a whole) her absolute favourite place to travel and destination to sell.

Jarien Hartzenberg

Jarien loves people, travel and Namibia. Even better, she loves helping people travel to Namibia. She’s really good at it too, so it’s a match made in heaven for her and for us at NTS and for you if she’s planning your next holiday.

Sammy Sowden

Sammy loves the diversity of the tourism industry especially when it comes to travelling to a country as unique as Namibia. With so much to offer, there’s something for everyone, even in the least expected places. You need only know where to look.

Support

Danie Steyn

A keen photographer and experienced guide, Danie started Namibia Tours & Safaris in 1990 guiding private expeditions into the far-flung reaches of the country. Now he uses his vast and intimate knowledge of the region to put together amazing trips along with the incredible team that is NTS.

Andree Rowett

In addition to being our media design and production powerhouse, Andree steadies the NTS vessel reigning in rampant departments and holding us all to a true course. And a gentler, kinder chief whip you will not find.

Carlyn von Wielligh

Full of homegrown goodness, Carlyn grew up in Windhoek before moving to Swakopmund with her family as a teenager, where she has lived ever since. Bar the occasional European interlude, now with a family of her own, we are delighted she’s here for the long haul.

Janine Reid

Janine is an indispensable part of the accounts team at Namibia Tours & Safaris. While she doesn’t take life too seriously, she does her job. She runs a tight ship and she does it effortlessly with a smile.

Tanya Coetzee

She loves to travel. She loves to write. Wooed by a Namibian and then by Namibia, Tanya loves Namibia with the passion of a convert and she is a welcome addition to our dynamic and friendly team at NTS.

Tessa Baas

Question: how do you reconcile the competing interests of a contented homebody and a free-range spirit imbued with an insatiable thirst for new experiences? That’s no small task and Tessa has been on a quest of Tolkien-sized proportions to find the answer since, oh, somewhere around the turn of the century.

Carlo Basson

An accomplished and well–educated safari guide in Namibia with heaps of experience, Carlo is now an asset to NTS as our fleet controller and meet & greet representative based in the capital of Windhoek.

Erna Kandinda

Erna is the smile you see throughout the office. Nothing ever asked of her is too much, not that you need ask her much since she’s a perfectionist by nature. With Erna around everything is on its place. Neat and tidy. Spick and span.

Josef Kock

Josef will welcome you to Namibia. His friendly demeanour, super-sized smile and polite nature makes him your perfect first contact in Namibia.

Our Guides

Our guides are exceptional human beings one and all. Their love of people, country, history, flora, fauna and a jolly good time is entirely contagious and their professionalism, expertise and trustworthiness will set your heart at ease from the moment you leave the arrivals terminal.