Advantages: Centrally Located, Good shops and restaurants Disadvantages: Lack of public transportation
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If you are staying at a guest house or pension outside the main cluster of streets downtown, then a car is a must. Taxi's are available, although they are often packed full and driven without much care and attention. This is a fact you will become aware of if you do any driving of your own...
Windhoek has many fine places to eat, my personal favourite being "Jenny's Place" in Klein Windhoek (Three to five minutes drive from Independence Avenue). This has a nice gift shop, and you can sit outside in a quiet garden under big umbrellas while enjoying their fare. Serving a delicious breakfast, it also makes an enjoyable stop after some busy souvenir shopping.
On the whole Windhoek is a relatively safe city, where old world colonial charm, African culture, and modern commerce exist side by side.
If you stick to the main shopping area (well...
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Advantages: strange and atmospheric landscapes, sense of adventure Disadvantages: isolated and remote, very few places to stay on coastline
...Swakopmund is Namibia's famous seaside resort and is located between the Namib Desert and the Atlantic coastline. The town is picturesque with many graceful turn-of-the century buildings and feels reminiscent of a small Bavarian village. The town has a number of curiosities such as the steam engine which arrived in 1896 to provide a rail link with Windhoek. After a few months it got bogged down on the spot where it still stands today as a national monument. It was named 'Martin Luther' after the evangelist's famous statement "here I stand, God help me, I cannot do otherwise".
Swakopmund is a place where people from Windhoek will come for a short break or holiday by the ocean. There are many hotels and restaurants in the town. One of my favourites is Fagin's Restaurant.
Near to Swakopmund, in the northern part of the Namib...
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Advantages: Not many tourists, easy to get around without being on a tour Disadvantages: Wildlife is less abundant than in some parts of Africa
...-made itinerary for us, was waiting to take us to our hotel.
Heinitzburg Hotel, Windhoek is a great place to stay at the beginning and end of a safari trip in Namibia (or Botswana which is easily accessible by small plane from here too) This splendid old castle which has been extended and converted into a luxury hotel, with a fine wine cellar, good food and a terrace with views over Windhoek. We briefly ventured into Windhoek (I had been before a few years earlier for a trip to the Okavango Delta and Chobe National Park in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, but that is the subject of a future review) There are the usual African tourist shopping opportunities, but I didn't sample anything more cultural there.
We had our car delivered to the hotel and set off into the wilderness. Our first stop was Sossusvlei, 4 to 5 hours drive away, stopping only...
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Stayed in City Pension Berlin for 2 nights in December 2005 with another two friends. Three of us booked a triple room and the shower is in the room but toilet outside. We paid Euro 53 only (this is very good value).
53 Euros is cheaper than youth... more
My impressions of this game when I saw it advertised on the internet was that it looked like a completely different type of game that I'm used to seeing for the DS.
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To best describe Hotel Dusk you could say it is an interactive novel in... more
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