This year marks the 500-year anniversary of the Reinheitsgebot, the German Beer Purity Law that guides and inspires our locally brewed beers o be made from only three ingredients: barley, hops and water.

Facts on the environment in Namibia

Namibia is blessed with a fine system of roads, bisecting the country and connecting all the major cities. Once off this arterial tarmac highway, you will be on a gravel road. All the district roads marked as a ‘D’ with four numbers on the map and most ‘C’ roads are not paved but surfaced with gravel.

One of the sights most visitors to Windhoek are bound to see is the Christuskirche perched on a ridge overlooking the city at the conjunction of Robert Mugabe Avenue and Fidel Castro Street. Until about sixty years ago, before any of the high-rise buildings in the business centre of Windhoek were built, it was visible from almost anywhere in town

No, not your fellow motorist but rather the four-legged variety of hogs. If you drive anywhere within central or eastern Namibia, you will see them grazing along the roadside.

Learn more about the fossils that can be found in Namibia

Learn more on the open spaces and walks of Windhoek

Resplendent in a reticulated patchwork of sepia, amber and beige, these sinuous goliaths weighing in at as much as 1 360 kilograms (3 000 pounds), tower above Etosha’s thorny acacias, brandishing their super-long willowy necks, staring at you curiously through their gleaming drop-dead-gorgeous eyelashes

The best plan of action when visiting the Etosha National Park, rather than rushing around in search of lions, is to spend time at each waterhole watching the different animals come to drink