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