Day 32 - Try the Windhoek Experience!

Windhoek, Chameleon Backpackers

Last day of the van today, and also our last full day in Namibia. We didn't know what to expect when we arrived, but over the last week or so we've come to enjoy the country very much, the scenery has been amazing, and the people very pleasant and friendly (except for some sort of scam artist we met one day who swore when we only gave him N$10 - about A$1.50 - for his "soccer team's bus trip").

One thing to mention, we keep being mistaken for Germans, as we have been continually approached (especially today in Windhoek) by people asking us questions in German. Generally we tell them we don't understand, at which point they switch to English, and ask us where we're from. If we're in a playful mood, we don't tell them anything and allow them to keep guessing all the countries they know .... and not one person has come up with Australia yet - shows how few Australians must travel here!

Today we took a little van tour of Windhoek, checking out a few of the interesting buildings (the usual stuff ... churches, museums, parliament buildings, gardens), after which we had a nice lunch at the very swish Windhoek Country Club.

We dropped the van off, got a taxi back to our accommodation in town (the place with the warning signs - no, we didn't try out the suggestion in the photo!), and spent the rest of the evening trying to use up all of our 3G data allocation tonight before it becomes  unusable when we cross the border into Botswana.

This means a couple of things:

1. We have now uploaded another Picase album of photos for Namibia. You can click here to see it (or the Namibia link at the right of this page)
2. We've managed to get some videos uploaded to YouTube as well, our YouTube channel can be accessed at this link, and we'll also embed the videos into the associated blog posts. The direction leaves a lot to be desired, but you should be able to get some idea of what we've been seeing along the way!