Follow Bach Street into Wagner Street, turn onto Beethoven and then make a left onto Brahms: visit the vividly-coloured Post Street Shopping Mall or the Alte Feste; peer at the walls of Schwerinsburg, Heinitzburg and Sanderberg, the Oode Voorpost or the art nouveau Christuskïrche. Where are you? Not, surprisingly, northern Europe but Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.
Namibia is a relatively recent addition to the tourist trail, and the raw beauty of its vast deserts and landscapes make it one of the most unique. The prize destination is Sossusvlei, the site of one of the world's great sand seas, and location for many a film scene.
Close by is the spectacular Fish River Canyon, loved by hikers and white-water rafters alike, and the famed Skeleton Coast, which covers the length of the Namibian coast. If your idea of nature includes enormous tracts of land, populated by an equally enormous range of wildlife, head for the Etosha National Park. Depending on the season, you could be lucky enough to gaze through your binoculars at black-faced impala, black rhinos, kudu and Burchell's zebra as well as Namibia's big fellows like lion, cheetah, elephant and giraffe.
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