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Namibia:
Windhoek and Central Region
Windhoek, Namibia's busy capital, is a brilliant tourist spot with impressive architecture, lots of good restaurants, and easy access to nearby reserves.
Windhoek is a wonderful town to while away the day. In downtown Windhoek you can find many examples of German colonial architecture, including the equestrian monument, the Alte Feste fort, Christuskirche (Christ’s Church), the well-kept gardens of Tintenpalast (Ink Palace), the House of Parliament, and the neatly preserved railway station northwest of the city centre. The pedestrian area of Post Mall Street is ideal for souvenir shopping, and also host to the famous meteorite shower of Gibeon. There are also a number of art galleries and museums in the area.
Daan Viljoen Game Reserve, west of the capital in the Khomas Hochland Mountains, offers several hiking trails through its hilly, park-like scenery. About 120 km to the west, one of Namibia’s most striking mountains rises from the Khomas Hochland, Gamsberg. The thermal baths at Gross Barmen, about 80 km north of Windhoek and 10 km south-west of Okahandja, are fed by a hot spring. The water is said to relieve rheumatism. Okahandja is one of the best places to buy wood carvings.
Those looking for adventure will not want to miss Arnhem Cave, 120 km south-east of Windhoek. On a tour of up to three hours part of the cave system is explored. It is 4.5 km long in total.
South of Windhoek, you find Rehoboth, which is famous for its hot springs. Further to the south is Hardap Dam and Recreational Park near Mariental, Namibia’s largest artificial lake. Over the years Hardap Dam has become a refuge for birds.
In and around Windhoek
Windhoek is normally only used as an over night stop-off point on arrival or before you depart Namibia, but it is well worth spending a day in the city to visit some of the art galleries and museums.
If you do not want to stay in Windhoek, you will find good quality guest houses and lodges within an hours drive from the city.
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Accommodation in Windhoek and Central Region (Namibia)
Built of handmade clay bricks and creatively decorated, Eningu invites you to relax with its rustic, comfortable atmosphere.
This castle, built at the turn of the 20th century by Count von Schwerin for his fiancée Margarethe von Heinitz, offers stylish and comfortable accommodation in a setting of plush romantic elegance.
Okonjima Camp and Lodge lies in the beautiful Omboroko Mountains, part of the Waterberg Plateau.
Olive Grove Guesthouse is a small, up-market establishment situated close to Windhoek city centre.
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Other regions in Namibia
The Caprivi in the north-east of Namibia is a narrow strip of land, 450km long and 100km wide.
Damaraland is one of the most scenic regions in Namibia with stunning landscapes ranging from expansive sand dunes to soaring mountain peeks, ancient valleys, boulder strewn floodplains and curious rock formations.
Like all of Namibia's landscapes, Etosha National Park is immense. It is the third largest national park in the world.
Fish River Canyon is famous for its stunning geographical features. The Canyon, one of the largest in the world, meanders and corkscrews for almost 160 kilometres.
The Skeleton Coast is a stretch of coast in northern Namibia, famous for the numerous skeletal shipwrecks embedded in the shores and the almost inhospitable, yet incredibly beautiful, desert that surrounds them.
Sossusvlei’s apricot dunes, the largest in the world, are one of the main highlights of any trip through the Namib Dessert.
Swakopmund is Namibia’s largest coastal town and traditional 'summer capital'.
Looming 150 metres above the plains below, the Waterberg is a spectacular sandstone plateau, 50km long and 16km wide. The area is extremely lush and fertile with a mosaic of trees and savannah supporting an abundance of wildlife including many rare and threatened species.
Windhoek, Namibia's busy capital, is a brilliant tourist spot with impressive architecture, lots of good restaurants, and easy access to nearby reserves.
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Example itineraries in Windhoek and Central Region
Classic North East Namibia Camping Safari
This excellent 11 day Namibia safari gives you the chance to experience the rugged, densely wooded wilderness reserve of Khaudum Game Park, as well as the fertile wilderness, riverine forests, flood plains, swamps and open woodland in the Kavango and Caprivi regions bordering Botswana.
