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Hochland Park

Hochland Park is a residential suburb in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.

Hochland Park
Hochland Park · Steffen Schmitz
The place

Hochland Park is a residential suburb in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It is named after the German Khomas Hochland, the central-Namibian plateau area in which Windhoek is situated.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hochland Park

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Alte Feste

    The Alte Feste is a fortress and museum in downtown Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It is situated in Robert Mugabe Avenue, next to the Independence Memorial Museum.

    2.3 km · museum · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tintenpalast

    The Parliament Building, Windhoek, also known as the Tintenpalast, is the seat of both houses of the Parliament of Namibia. It is located in the Namibian capital of Windhoek.

    2.4 km · building in Namibia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Namibia University of Science and Technology

    The Namibia University of Science and Technology, formerly known as Polytechnic of Namibia, is a public university located in the city of Windhoek, Namibia. NUST was headed by the founding vice-chancellor Tjama Tjivikua from 1995 until 2019.

    1.4 km · public university in Windhoek, Namibia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Library of Namibia

    The National Library of Namibia is the legal deposit and copyright library for Namibia. The library is situated in Windhoek.

    2.8 km · national library · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Mary's Cathedral, Windhoek

    St. Mary's Cathedral, known as St.

    1.9 km · building in Namibia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Reiterdenkmal, Windhoek

    The Equestrian Monument, more commonly known under its German original name Reiterdenkmal and the name Südwester Reiter, was a monument in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It was inaugurated on 27 January 1912, the birthday of German emperor Wilhelm II. The monument honoured German soldiers and civilians who died during the Herero and Nama genocide of 1904–1908, which later caused controversy in independent Namibia due to the monument’s association with German colonial rule.

    2.2 km · National Monument of Namibia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Independence Memorial Museum

    The Independence Memorial Museum is a history museum in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It focuses on the anti-colonial resistance and the national liberation movement of Namibia.

    2.2 km · history museum in Windhoek, Namibia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Schwerinsburg

    Schwerinsburg is the biggest of three castles in Windhoek, Namibia. Today it is the private residence of the Italian ambassador in Namibia.

    2.6 km · Castle in Namibia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Heinitzburg

    Heinitzburg is one of the three castles in Windhoek, Namibia. It was built in 1914 by architect Wilhelm Sander.

    2.6 km · castle in Namibia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Sanderburg

    Sanderburg is the smallest of three castles in Windhoek, Namibia. It was built between 1917 and 1919 by architect Wilhelm Sander who designed it as his own place of residence.

    2.6 km · castle in Namibia · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Hochland Park

Airports
Hosea Kutako (WDH), 43 km · Walvis Bay (WVB), 252 km
Stations
Windhoek railway station, 2.2 km
  • Windhoek → Hochland Park
    3 km · quickest by road, 8 min · $0.5
  • Walvis Bay(Rooikop) → Hochland Park
    264 km · quickest by road, 4h 52m · $25–34
  • Maun → Hochland Park
    718 km · quickest by air, 6h 52m · $300–440
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hochland Park

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hochland Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inMinibuses run from everywhere in Namibia, and through some combination of different routes, one can always find their way to Windhoek.
  • Get inHowever, it is easier to arrange for a minibus to take you (check opposite SAA in Independence Avenue).
  • Get aroundThere are a number of car rental agencies operating in Windhoek: There is no scheduled public transport in Windhoek but there is a system of shared taxis that do not have fixed routes.
  • Get aroundShared taxis are generally in bad condition, and their operators' aggressive driving is legendary.

From Wikivoyage: Windhoek, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    296 km
  2. 02
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    1,879 km
  3. 03
    Cape Maclear (Chembe)MW

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,102 km
  4. 04
    Ilha de MoçambiqueMZ

    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

    2,624 km
  5. 05
    Bwindi Impenetrable National ParkUG

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    2,756 km

If you know how people move in Hochland Park – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hochland Park

Hochland Park is 2 km from Windhoek, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.