We arrived at the Windhoek Railway Station at 10:30 in the morning. We disembarked from the train, thanked the crew, and collected our luggage. After making sure we had everything with us, we looked around. The station building itself was very quaint. It was built in the Cape Dutch style between 1897 and 1902 during the German colonial rule. An additional northern wing was constructed in 1929 to match the existing style of the building. If not for people around us in modern c

Lonely Planet dubs Namibia as “Africa for Beginners,” and adds that “it is a wonderful place to start.” For me, Namibia is indeed bursting with an aura of “newfangledness.” I knew almost nothing about it before, except that it was formerly called Southwest Africa (west of the more popular South Africa), that it was once a German colony, and that it was the country where celebrity and UN refugee ambassador Angelina Jolie chose to give birth to her daughter Shiloh in 2006. Tha