25 December 2021 - a video of morning walk through Windhoek city center with stops at sights and famous buildings - almost no people or cars are involved. Namibia, southern Africa. Part 3.
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2021 УТРО РОЖДЕСТВА ЦЕНТР ГОРОДА ВИНДХУК НАМИБИЯ
YouTube video:
Windhoek Christmas 2020: https://youtu.be/SwA00-HdBEE
Windhoek:
http://www.namibweb.com/windhoek.htm
Christmas in Namibia (Windhoek in particular)!
If you haven't been to Namibia during the festive season before, it may come as a surprise to you that Christmas is celebrated much like it is in European countries. Especially the German flair is predominant in many homes and supermarkets, which one can half expect seeing that Namibia was a German colony just over a century ago.
Christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve by Germans, while the rest of the country celebrates on Christmas Day. The event itself can be divided into two broad categories: activities around Christmas and activities on Christmas.
The first thing to remember is that Namibia lies in the Southern hemisphere and therefore experiences no such thing as a “White Christmas”. In fact, Christmas falls into one of the hottest periods of the year and the one thing that everyone yearns for is not snow, but rain! Rain on Christmas is a blessing to everyone and if it does come about, a collective sigh of relief and gratefulness can be heard across the countryside.
Christmas also falls into a time of school holidays. Many people travel to other parts of the country, in particular the coast (to find reprieve from the heat!), or to their family farms in rural areas to help prepare the land for the rains that are expected from December to March.
The meal and activities on Christmas Day and Eve itself depend on the different cultures, although it is common among most cultures that people attend a church service, either on Christmas Eve or Day. That is not surprising, as most of the Namibian population is Christian. Concerning meals, Weihnachtsteller is common among Germans, as are roast duck and potato salad. Among the Afrikaans speakers the “Braai”, the South African barbeque, is very popular, while the people in rural areas often enjoy 'pap en vleis'. The 'pap' is a porridge made from Omahangu millet or maize. This is a typically Namibian dish that many Namibians enjoy on this holiday.
And of course, the Christmas tree may not be forgotten, else where does one put the gifts? Peculiar in Namibia is that the tree sometimes takes the form of a thorn bush rather than the evergreens that people may be used to in Europe. This definitely adds a Namibian flair to Christmas!
Windhoek climate makes it a very nice place to live in: mostly dry but with a quite reliable rainfall with an average of 360 mm a year. Another reason for establishing a settlement here were several fountains with good healthy water. German colonists found morass in the Windhoek's valley that they drained later. Windhoek's altitude is around 1650 m above sea level (railway station: 1642 m, International airport: 1680-1720 m, Ausspanplatz: 1650 m). The highest mountain around the capital is Grossherzog at 2330 m above sea level (south of Windhoek on the way to Rehoboth with TV tower on top).
The settlement was founded in 1840 by Jonker Afrikaner who built his first house next to present South African High Commission (previously Berg hotel). For a long time Windhoek was a small settlement abandoned from time to time during Nama-Herero wars. 18 October 1890 Curt von Francois reached Windhoek with 32 men and commenced construction of Alte Feste establishing permanent German presence.
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