A few impressions:
- The scenery is very familiar in some ways - looks like Santa Monica mountains during a drought.
View From My Hotel
- Windhoek was, as expected, quite prosperous, yet I was pleasantly surprised to see it is not quite as "townshipized", a la S. Africa, as I expected. That said, there is a large township, Katutura, just outside of the center city that I will visit this weekend, so I may have a different perspective then.
- Also a very diverse place (I don't think you'd see this in too many other cities in Africa)
The Windhoek LGBT festival gets going
- The city is absolutely full of drunken S. African and British school-kids on holiday. Good news is that I am not "the ugly American" (relatively speaking), bad news is that the Queen's hordes have invaded my hotel. I will try not to make snide comments, I promise (oops, already did)
Alas, my wanderings through the city confirmed that I need to get out into the "veld" ASAP; although Windhoek is a great example of a well functioning, multi-racial African city, which is a great thing to behold, it is sadly.... quite dull. Hope my next round of posts will hold greater excitement!
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