German Africa
Trip Start
Sep 17, 2007
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Trip End
Oct 08, 2008
Windhoek,
Namibia
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
My walking tour took us up the the gingerbread church, which has a German name involving Christe and kirke or something like that, but I never called it that. It's very pretty. We then walked up to the Alte Feste, which is a museum, so we avoided the inside. The outside rather looks like a castle. The little school across the street which was supposed to have an interesting ventillation construction sticking out of it didn't. Very unsatisfactory. A turn at the end of the street took us up to the Parliament building
Windhoek skyline
. It's called the Ink Palace, or Tintenpalast...guess why? We meandered through the grounds for some minutes; they probably have the best view in town. A group of children was playing an incomprehensible game that involved walking in a line chanting in...a language...and then the one at the front would scream and everyone would run about four feet in some direction. I really couldn't figure out the logic of it, but they were all delighted by it. Their governess had a giant (seriously huge) white bow in her hair. We were getting hungry, so it was onward march. The president's house looks like something someone built in California in the 1960s, but it seems a nice place to live. Unlike our president, the Namibian president appears to have a rather normal home (excepting that he's got servants and stuff). Finally I found the Post St. Mall. If you think that you can get here from Mandume Ndemmayo Ave, you are bound to be frustrated. The mall is elevated, and from that side you can only get there by the skyway from the shopping center. Other than being a place for all tourists and chic persons to stock up on expensive stuff, the Post St. Mall is home to the permanent exhibit of Meteorites that fell in Namibia some years past. I think they're called Gibeon meteorites because that's where they landed. Don't quote me.
And that is Windhoek.
Erin
