Namibia Trip Report

[chrisinhouston]

We stayed at a big hotel in Swakopmund on the Atlantic coast north of Walvis Bay. My wife was working at the nearby Rio Tinto Rossing Uranium Mine. The Swakopmund Hotel was originally the railway station and was quite an impressive structure. Since Germany colonized Nambia most of the architecture is German style and typical of the late 1800's though the 1960's European style. The hotel was ok, I can only imagine want went into saving an old structure yet modernizing it into a hotel. The town is small so we walked a lot but I had also rented a Toyota Rav 4 and used that to get around as well.

We quickly began enjoying the good South African wines.