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Lüderitz’s most iconic landmark: a neo-Gothic Lutheran church perched on a rocky hill above the town, consecrated in 1912. Designed
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Ancient San (Bushman) rock engravings and graves on Namuskluft Farm near Rosh Pinah. Accessible via guided tours from the Rosh
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Aus was the site of a German prisoner of war camp (1915–1919) during South Africa’s WWI campaign against German South
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Built in 1814 by London Missionary Society missionary Heinrich Schmelen, the Schmelenhaus is the oldest surviving building in Namibia. Schmelen
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One of the most consequential events in Namibian history took place in Bethanie. In 1883, at the house of Nama
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The railway through Ariamsvlei was a German colonial engineering project linking Namibia’s interior to South Africa’s Northern Cape. The line
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The 1814 Nama church in Bethanie is the oldest church building in Namibia. Adjacent Schmelen House (1814) is one of
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The Sperrgebiet (Forbidden Territory) — 26,000 km² of diamond-rich coastal desert sealed since 1908. Only licensed Namdeb tours cross the
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The Fort Namutoni was built by German colonial forces in 1903, attacked and burned by Ovambo forces in 1904, then
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A 35m-high isolated dolomite finger jutting from a table mountain near Outjo — one of Namibia’s most dramatic rock formations.
