Walvis Bay - Walvis Bay

The town Walvis Bay (Afrikaans: Walvisbaai; English: Walvis Bay) is the largest seaport in Namibia and (as well as the smaller one Luderitz) strongly influenced by its fish processing industry. Walvis Bay is about 30 kilometers south of Swakopmund within a lagoon which forms one of the most important bird sanctuaries in the South Atlantic.

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getting there

By plane

The international -22.97972222222214.6452777777781 Walvis Bay Airport(IATA: WVB) offers direct flights to Cape Town and Johannesburg. Connecting flights to Frankfurt am Main, London, Munich exist about the airport Windhoek.

Walvis Bay Airport is served by Air Namibia with other destinations inland (Windhoek, Luderitz, Oranjemund) and Cape Town connected and South African Express flies daily from Cape Town and Johannesburg to the seaside town.

In the street

Walvis Bay is also the end point of the B2 national road and can easily be reached by car from 30km Swakopmund or can be reached in 4 1/2 hours from Windhoek.

By boat

Walvis Bay has one -22.951914.49382 Deep sea port. For sailors with their own yacht: Registration on VHF 12 or 16. Entry can be difficult in the dark. The easiest way to land with the dinghy on the beach in front of the -22.95946814.4814563 Yacht club(22 ° 57 ′ 34 ″ S14 ° 28 ′ 53 ″ E). Application for short-term membership (2016: 1 week N $ 300) and fees are paid at the bar. The customs office is right next to the Immigration. Both offices are open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (with lunch break). The port office, which is manned 24 hours a day, is in the secure area of ​​the commercial port, around 100 m from customs. As a rule, you will be shown to the correct room by a security guard.

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Tourist Attractions

• The lagoon offers shelter for up to 160,000 birds and food for over 200,000 terns as they migrate to and from the Antarctic regions. The lagoon is essential for about 70% of all red-banded plovers (Charadrius pallidus) in the world. Over 80% of all flamingos in southern Africa feed on this lagoon. You can paddle through the lagoon in a kayak.

• On the -22.87635514.4426621 peninsulaType is group designation Seals and pelicans gather in front of the lagoon

• The -22.9644786414.49297192 Rhenish mission church. It was built in 1879 - in Hamburg! The prefabricated building was then dismantled and rebuilt the following year in its destination Walvis Bay. It has been a national monument since 1972.

• The Dorob National Park extends between the Skeleton Coast in the north and the Namib-Naukluft Park in the south, cities such as Walvis Bay and Swakopmund are not included.

• Saltworks for the extraction of sea salt in the lagoon and south of the city

• An artificially created one -22.878614.53573 Bird islandType is group designation, it is used to obtain guano
• -22.95765714.5070454  Walvis Bay Museumlast change: Jun. 2018
• -22.95839814.5056295  Town Hall (town hall) last change: Jun. 2018

activities

• Boat trips through the lagoon to watch whales, watch sea birds, dolphins and seals
• The dunes are popular for off-road tours with quads. The formerly wild drives were somewhat restricted by the establishment of the Dorob National Park.
• -22.96994114.5969641 Dune 7Type is group designation. Climb the 383 m high dune.

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kitchen

nightlife

accommodation

• -22.96124214.4830311  Pelican Bay Hotel (Marriott Hotel), The Esplanade,. Tel.: 264 64 214 000. last change: Jun. 2018
• -22.96046114.4887582  Langholm Hotel, 18-20 JJ Cleverly Street, Lagoon. Tel.: 264 64 209 230. last change: Jun. 2018

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trips

• Swakopmund

• Henties Bay

• Skeleton coast

• Lunar landscape

• Sossusvlei

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