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| We promised some trip reports and trip reports you get. While in South Africa for a cruise, we noticed that Namibia was so close by so why not pay it a quick visit? So off we go to the Namibian capitol, Windhoek. |
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| We began with an early-morning flight on Airlink from Capetown. This is the smallest commercial airline jet we've flown; only 36 passengers. This airline does operate larger jets too and flies to throughout southern Africa. |
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| After climbing out of CPT, numerous green mountain chains gave way to the Namibian desert for which the country gets its name. |
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| The capital is non-descript. Lots of malls, other shops and government buildings. Most tourists visit Namibia to go on safari, not to come here. |
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| The Christuskirche was designed around 1900 and is part of Namibia's German history. Germany did not have a lot of African colonies compared to France, Britain, Belgium & Spain but German Southwest Africa (later Southwest Africa) was one of them. So there are a lot of ethnic Germans living here and have been for generations. |
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| The National Museum of Namabia |
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Namibisches Nationalmuseum |
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| Since this was just a daytrip, there wasn't a lot of time to see much but one definite highlight was seeing wild baboons along the highway connecting the airport to the city. It was an interesting sidetrip and a good time was had by all. |
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