Walvis bay, Namibia

[Borna]

Sightseeing suggestions? Guide referrals?  I'll be in Walvis bay for a day from a cruise ship.

 

I am thinking of seeing:  Comments?  Additions? Deletions?

 

Dune 7

Bird island

Pelican point lighthouse

Flamingo lagoon

Sandwich harbor wetlands with birds

Walvis Bay waterfront

Pink lake

Rhenish mission church

Moon landscape  

Welwitschia plant 

[exiledowl]

If you've only got a day a trip to Swakopmund would be a good idea ; it's more attractive and interesting than Walvis Bay. 

[Borna]

1 hour ago, exiledowl said:

If you've only got a day a trip to Swakopmund would be a good idea ; it's more attractive and interesting than Walvis Bay. 

thanks, and what should I see in Swakopmund?

 

[exiledowl]

Its basically a quirky , typical German town enclosed by the desert.

You'll see what I mean by the architecture, most notably the Hohenzollern building and the Woermann house.

Luderitz is similar but on a smaller scale. 

[Zach1213]

On 9/12/2023 at 8:26 AM, exiledowl said:

If you've only got a day a trip to Swakopmund would be a good idea ; it's more attractive and interesting than Walvis Bay. 

I'll chime in as a Namibian...you're right. Swakopmund > Walvis Bay.

[Hezu]

I think one interesting option might be also a "Living desert tour", where your get a drive in the desert and the guide shows you various interesting creatures that live there. Most likely also Welwitschia plants.

 

Granted, my experience of one was during a land based trip in Namibia and it started in Swakopmund and the tour begun in afternoon and ended close to sunset time (around 6 pm in early July), so I don't know how that fits into a cruise schedule. I believe there are few different local tour operators in the area that arrange these.