Quiver Tree Forest — Attraction in Karas

Bad experience all round. We were told on arrival that there was an entrance fee to see the forest and Giants playground. Fair enough. The gent started to process a card payment and more people arrived. The payment would not go through due to internet issues, and a very rude woman came out and ordered the gent to deal with the new arrivals, then tried to process payment again , which went through, but for camping as well! So she had to reverse the payment, and then informed us that it was cash only for the visits. Bottom line... quiver tree forest is just a forest you can see from the road. There is no path or guides in the forest so one can get lost finding your way back if you don't take note . Giant's playground is amazing but if you are not spending lots of time, you can also view it from the round and avoid dealing with...

We stopped here en route to have a look at the quiver tree forest. The lady at the counter, was busy with a customer, she barely looked, and didn’t greet us. When she was finished with the customer we said we would like to look at the quiver tree forest and asked her the price. For 4 of us she quoted R480-00 which we thought was an unreasonable fee for having a Quick Look at a few trees. It was her attitude, unfriendliness and ridiculous price...

Arrived in the evening and rude man came out to meet us asking to see our faces before he revealed if the forest was open or not. Once satisfied he quote a price 5-8x that of a national park, and when we indicated it was out of our budget and whether we could just have a coffee before we went on our way, he told us to drive in Ketmanshoop to find...