Namibia 2023

 So, a quick tour of Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia. Namibia was originally colonised by Germany and this is evident in some of the older architecture. The country was also a part of South Africa till 1990 so guess what - townships.  The HQ of the ruling party - SWAPO The monument recording Namibia's independence. Namibia's first president - his statue is in the previous photo. Christuskirche - more info: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christuskirche_(Windhoek) Then onwards and our first (but far from last) experience of an African massage. Namibia's roads are mainly gravel.  The Namib is the world's oldest desert - but forget Saharan sands - this is a whole different, and infinitely varied, landscape.   The tree has a huge sociable weavers' nest on it.    For reasons which will become obvious, I'm not giving the precise location of our lodge for the next couple of nights. It did, however, offer an optional evening safari and we decided to take advan...

 there was Windhoek. Well, there was the drive from the airport to the hotel. You really don't want to do a lot after 24 hours' travel. We met our very nice, thankfully small, group and had supper. Oryx steak for me.  Note: pictures of food will be mercifully absent from this narrative.