Don's Trip To Namibia

These pictures cover the time from June 8th through June 17, 2003, when I went to Namibia to help install the third ROTSE telescope. Pictures of the telescope itself can be seen on the ROTSE site; the pictures here are more pleasure than business.

This is the Post Office Mall in downtown Windhoek. It's a pedestrian mall where street vendors lay out blankets and sell rows and rows of knick-knacks and other arts and crafts things.
There was a sculpture store in said mall that made interesting sculptures out of twisted tree roots.
A Catholic Church in Windhoek
The Namibian Supreme Court
These two pictures show some more street vendors, this time out on the corner next to the main park downtown.
These are two shots of "Zoo Park", the main park in downtown Windhoek.
I saw this big dragonfly on a bush, and managed to get a picture of it.
This is one of the oldest Churches in WWindhoek -- the "Christuskirche" -- and it sits perched on the top of a hill overlooking the downtown area.
Kitty-corner across the street was this office, and I found the slogan fascinating. Made me wonder about the legal system here. I really don't know anything about it, or what role this office serves in it.
I wandered down the street looking for a museum that was on the map, and was startled when a voice spoke to me from behind some bushes and said "Excuse me, sir, you must cross to the other side of the street." I assume it was a guard and that the building behind the bushes was a government building, but I never did see the speaker. Anyway, I found the museum, and this rabbit was busy munching away in the bushes in front of it. No idea if it was wild or tame, but it more or less ignored me.
Back on the post office mall, this is where I had lunch, and the restaurant had two of those tree root sculptures flanking its entrance.
This is the heart of downtown Windhoek. Zoo Park is right behind the signs. Up Fidel Castro St. you get to the Christuskirche and the government buildings. Left, right, and behind is the merchant district.
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