A park and street scene in Windhoek.

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Windhoek

Windhoek is a modern, well-groomed city where office workers lounge around Zoo Park at lunchtime, tourists funnel through Post St Mall admiring curios and taxis whizz around honking at potential customers. Neobaroque cathedral spires, as well as a few seemingly misplaced German castles, punctuate the skyline, and complement the steel-and-glass high-rises.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

  • Christuskirche

    Christuskirche

    Windhoek

    Windhoek’s best-recognised landmark, and something of an unofficial symbol of the city, this German Lutheran church stands on a traffic island and lords…

  • Daan Viljoen Game Park

    Daan Viljoen Game Park

    Windhoek

    This beautiful wildlife park sits in the Khomas Hochland about 18km west of Windhoek. You can walk to your heart’s content through lovely wildlife-rich…

  • National Museum of Namibia

    National Museum of Namibia

    Windhoek

    The excellent display on Namibia’s independence at the country’s historical museum provides some enlightening context to the struggles of this young…

  • Zoo Park

    Zoo Park

    Windhoek

    Although this leafy park served as a public zoo until 1962, today it functions primarily as a picnic spot and shady retreat for lunching office workers…

  • Tintenpalast

    Tintenpalast

    Windhoek

    The former administrative headquarters of German South West Africa have been given a new mandate as the Namibian parliament building. As a fitting homage…

  • Turnhalle

    Turnhalle

    Windhoek

    The Turnhalle was built in 1909 as a training hall for the Windhoek Gymnastic Club, though in 1975 it was modernised and turned into a conference hall. On…

  • Trans-Namib Transport Museum

    Trans-Namib Transport Museum

    Windhoek

    Windhoek’s beautiful old Cape Dutch–style train station on Bahnhof St was constructed by the Germans in 1912, and was expanded in 1929 by the South…

  • Independence Memorial Museum

    Independence Memorial Museum

    Windhoek

    Opened in 2014, this museum is dedicated to the country's anticolonial and independence struggle. The first floor tells the story of Namibia under…

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