Travel Guide Windhoek

Because it is above all the huge wilderness that makes us love Namibia, it is important to recognize that Windhoek (pronouncement "Winduek") is not of paramount interest to the traveler. The city, with its Germanic look, has some attaching sides if one looks at it for some time and is an ideal base to prepare a shipment or recover from the emotions of such a trip around a good table on the return. At Windhoek, the traveler will be able to perform all the necessary formalities and find all the necessary equipment to discover the country. Those who take the time to visit the city will understand that it is unleashing as the bowels are discovered.An administrative, legislative and judicial capital, Windhoek has more than 322,000 inhabitants and brings together all ethnic groups in Namibia. The new memorial, a few museums and especially the Namibian melting pot meet.Windhoek surprised: quiet and clean, it does not really correspond to the image of an African capital. We have to look closer to discovering a city of fascinating contradictions. In what other city does Fidel Castro lead to a Lutheran church after crossing Bismarck Avenue? The German influence is obvious when you see the street name, Schubert Strasse, Mozart Strasse or Spinoza Strasse…In Windhoek, modern buildings alternate with colonial buildings under a clear sky 300 days a year. The city center is organized around a few shopping centers, banks and shops. The main monuments are all concentrated in the immediate vicinity of the National Museum, the Independence Memorial Museum and the Lutheran Church Christuskirche, with the exception of the station slightly away.In view of the city's weak animation, we have a right to wonder where its inhabitants live. You have to go to Katutura to feel the pulse of Africa. About 60% of the population of Windhoek lives in this poor neighborhood in the north-west of the city, a former township, which continues to see migrants flowing. Perhaps this is where the traveler will be the most depressed, in this neighborhood where the various ethnic groups in Namibia live, looking for a future they will have to build together, with the white people who reside on the huppy heights of Klein Windhoek, Ludwigsdorf and Eros.If the city center is easily on foot, a car is needed to discover the outlying areas and the direct surroundings of the city.