Sunday, 28 August 2011

Visiting Ongwediva

Here is our little city, which I photographed to put some pictures of it to put on Wikipedia. We start first with the Police Station:





And the big church on the road to Oshakati:



The same road, with entrance sign to Onwgediva



The Ongwediva Annual Trade Fair, THE major event of the area, creating commotion in the city like nothing!



The official entrance to Ongwediva:



The city lies between two other major cities in the North: Ondangwa and Oshakati:



The University of Namibia campus, nammed after the present President of the country, Hifikepunye Pohamba:



The back of the campus, where I use to jog:




"Our" Spar supermarket, source of a lot of joys (wine, food, well... There isn't much to do here, you easily become emotional about those things!)



The Open Market:



The rural landscape around the city: flat land, flooded during the rainy season to form oshanas (shallow ponds). Oshana is the name of the region where Oshakati, Ondangwa and Ongwediva are:




The new parts of the city, eating up the bush slowly:



The amazing figue trees that one can find in the region:



Typical streets of the city:





Our street!




The typical middle class Namibian house: a small house, surrounded by a shaky fence surrouding the sandy plot:



And the building where my office is:


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