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Windhoek Namibia

If you plan to visit Namibia, you will need good equipment to travel safely and comfortably. Windhoek is an important gateway to Nam Africa and provides an ideal springboard or stopover to explore this unique and fascinating country. The location has obvious advantages when it comes to governing a country the size of Namibia, but it also makes it the ideal place to start and plan the journey of the Namibian people. To make it a starting point and end point for all your travel to and from the capital of the Democratic Republic of South Africa (DRC) and the country as a whole, it is conveniently located in the heart of Africa's second largest economy with a population of over 1.5 million.

Combies run all over Namibia and with a combination of different routes you can always find them as far as Windhoek. If you have time, combine this visit with a long drive if you are looking for a stamina challenge, including a drive to the Namibian National Park and the National Museum of the Republic of South Africa. Just stop in Wind Hoek and see Kudu, Zebra, Springbok and more. Next door is the world's largest collection of antelopes, the largest of its kind in the world, as well as a number of other wildlife attractions.

Inside, the National Museum focuses on the history of Namibia in recent centuries, including a collection of reproductions of rock art, prints and engravings found in Brandberg and Twyfelfontein in northwestern Namibia. In front of the museum is the genocide memorial, which commemorates the atrocities committed by German troops against the native Namibians at the beginning of the 20th century.

We pass the National Museum, which houses a huge fortress built by the colonial powers that founded the German colony of Africa in 1890. We pass the German Lutheran Church, built in 1907 from local sandstone, which serves as one of the city's landmarks.

If you want to climb Brandberg, you must obtain a permit, although it is said that a more convenient system is being worked on, which allows tourists to pick up a permit on site. If you are coming to Namibia by plane, it is probably at Hosea Kutako International Airport, the only international airport in Namibia located in the small capital. Regular international flights connect Cape Town, the capital of South Africa, and Johannesburg, home to the world's second largest tourist destination after the Falls. Windhoek is for some reason one of the most popular tourist destinations in Africa and the only one with regular flights to and from the continent.

The rich mix of African and German elements merge in Windhoek to a unique and interesting city. The combination of the natural beauty of the city and its rich cultural heritage gives it an advantage that is not found anywhere else in Namibia.

Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, is located in the south of the country on the border with South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is named after the place in the south of Namibia where a meteor hit an area of 13,000 square kilometres.

Windhoek is the third largest city in the world with an area of 1,982 square kilometers and has 1.5 million inhabitants. Under South African occupation, the city was divided into two parts: the capital and the regional capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The San, also known as Bushmen, are considered some of the earliest inhabitants of Namibia. The Batswana (plural: Motswana) are the smallest population group in Namibia with about 7,000 inhabitants. In 2010, the population of Windhoek grew continuously due to an influx from all over Nam Africa and South Africa.

Several opinions have been expressed about the origin of the current name, but the most popular of them was that Jonker, an African and Nama leader, named the area after the farm where he was born in South Africa sometime in the 1840s. It is believed that the Afrikaans named Windhoek after the South African Tulbagh, where some of their ancestors lived. There is evidence that a small group came from the Kgalagadi area in Botswana and another group from Namibia.

In the 1840s, the settlement was founded by Jonker, an African, who built his first church, which was submitted to the South African High Commission. Windhoek grew rapidly when they settled near one of the hot springs in 1840 and built a church. Dutch settlement and later another church with a capacity for 500 people, which was also used as a school.

After the Berlin Treaty of 1885, which divided Africa, Namibia was claimed by the Germans as part of the German Reich. South African rule came to a halt And Windhoek was abandoned at the end of the 19th century because of its proximity to the border with South Africa.

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