Shopping
Windhoek offers a wide selection of fashionable shops. Local crafts, such as wood carvings, karosse rugs and Herero dolls can be bought in specialized shops. Windhoek Street Market, which is held every second Saturday, also offers local crafts and traditional items. Other good purchases are diamonds and semi-precious stones, leather shoes, liqueur chocolates and Swakara garments made from local wool.
Typical shopping hours are 09.00 - 17.00 Monday to Friday and 09.00 - 13.00 on Saturdays. The local currency is Namibian Dollar. The South African Rand is also acceptable as currency in Namibia. Major credit cards are accepted.
