Currency
the official currency in Namibia is the Namibia$ (N$), but also the South African Rand is permitted as a legal tender. The import of both currencies are forbidden.

Take your payments with you in kind of cash, traveller cheque etc. In all larger shops you can pay with it or with your credit card. Smaller shops or itinerants  (markets) take usually only the  native currency.

on the B1 further in direction Tsumeb (Route 3)

Tsumeb / Grootfontein
Tsumeb is the mine town Namibia's. Starting in 1905 the town of Tsumeb was closely linked to the mining industry, but mining operations have since been scaled down considerably. The colourful jacarandas, flamboyant trees and bougainvilaca that lines Tsumeb's streets have earned in the name of Namibia's garden town. The history of Tsumeb is depicted in the Tsumeb Museum, where a comprehensive collection of rare minerals can be viewed. In the Khorab Room This section displays a collection of restored cannons and other armaments dumped into Lake Otjikoko by retreating German forces shortly before the signing of the Khorab Peace Treaty.
The largest known meteorite in the world, the Hoba-Meteorit, lies in a shallow depression on the Farm Hoba-West, about 20 km west of  Grootfontein. The 50 / 60-ton mass of nickel and iron, which is between 190 and 410 million years old, crashed to earth some 30.000 to 80.000 years ago. Discovered by Jacobus Hermanus Brits in the 1920's, it was periodically subjected to vandalism. Measures to protect the meteorite were taken in the 1980's in a joint venture between Rössing Uranium Ltd and the National Monuments Council. A stone amphitheatre was built around it to allow for convenient viewing, while a museum wall giving information on the meteorite was built at the entrance. There are barbecue facilities at the site, and an interesting variety of birds.

Etosha National Park
The internationally known Etosha National Park is an 22.275 km² large conservation area in Namibia's north and one of the largest parks in Africa.  The name „Etosha" comes from the Oshivambo and means „big white place". Etosha owes its unique landscape to the Etosha Pan, a vast shallow depression of approx. 5.000 km². A series of waterholes along the southern edge of the pan guarantee rewarding and often spectacular game viewing. In good rain years the pan fills with water draining southwards from Angola via a delta-like system of shallow rivers and oshanas, drying out in the winter to become an austere expanse of white cracked mud, shimmering with mirages and upward-spiralling dust devils Etosha has three tourist resorts- Okaukuejo, favoured for its floodlit waterhole where "specials" such as Elephant, Giraffe, Black Rhino and Lion can be viewed at night; Namutoni, characterised by the historic fort around which it is centred; and Halai, situated halfway between Okaukuejo and Namutoni. You can drive through the park on gravel pads with your own car. There are many lodges and guest farms situated close enough to Etosha that allow for a day excursions into the park. Here you should stay for 2 days.
 

Swakopmund, Walvis Bay, Cape Cross, the Dunes of the Namib, Namib Naukluft Park
Swakopmund, mentioned also the "Baltic Sea bath of Namibia", is starting point of many Excursions to the nearby sights and beauties of nature. Here you should stay also for a few days in a congenial retirement and start your excursions from here. Swakopmund is situated near the delta of the Swakop River, framed from dunes and the Atlantic Ocean. Since a long time  Swakopmund is a popular vacation destination and a tourist stronghold of the country. Here you find clear signs of former German colonial time and mainly German speaking Swakopmunder. You can taste typically German confectioner products in the cafés of the town and make enjoy delicious fish specialities in the evening in one of the numerous restaurants or surprise yourself from the "catch of the day". Known historical buildings are the Woermann House, the old railway station, the old courthouse and the old pier "Jetty": Here economic products and war material of the German colonial power were landed for a short period; to day the pier is the meeting point of amorous couples. The old lighthouse showed the sailors and their ships the way to that place.
Walvis Bay is located approx. 40 km south of Swakopmund. Also framed from the dunes of the Namib and the Atlantic Ocean and  a far expending lagoon, Walvis Bay is the biggest sea port of Namibia and the centre of the Namibian fishing industry as well as also a rapidly growing touristic industry. The Walvis Bay wetlands are international known for their plenty available shallows birds as Flamingos. The steadily blowing winds from southwest offer ideal conditions for surfboarders and other water events in the lagoon. At the south edge of the lagoon white mountains arise in the height: Salt, produced by vaporization of sea water and piled up for the transport. The coast dunes facilitate the most different adventurous activities as dune skis (on Dune No. 7), sand board sails, paragliding and quad biking.
In Sandwich Harbor, approx. 40 km south of Walvis Bay, the dunes of the Namib flows into an ancient, nature left lagoon (former sea port) and produce a spectacular coast landscape. Sandwich is also one of the most famous wetlands of Africa. It is only open to all-wheel drive vehicles (fundamentally necessary, if you wants to go off fortified roads) and is opened only for day visits.
Approx. 100 km in the north of Swakopmund Cape Cross (Kreuzkap) is located. The Cape Cross is on of the biggest and particularly open for visitors crowd of the South African Fur Seals. Here they form a colony of up to 250.000 animals to give birth to their youngsters in October or November. In this concentration the seals represent a genuine problem for the fishing industry, because seals daily eat about eight percent of their dead weight at fish. In order to prevent an  over-population, seals are hunted at the Cape Cross annually in greater numbers and used for shoes and bags. In January 1486 Diego Cão entered the country tip presumably as the first European at 21° 46′ of southern width and constructed a stone cross there. This original was removed in 1893 by a German captain, transferred to Germany (Berlin) and replaced by a simple wood cross. Two years later the wood cross was replaced also by a copy of stone at Cape Cross. At the end of the 20th century a further new stone cross - the original rather corresponding -  was joint. This was possible due to private donations so that to day two crosses are to be found at Cape Cross.
According to the season there is a lot of fog at Swakopmund area, which is formed while cold air of the Atlantic Ocean meets on hot air from the Namib. It stays sometimes the whole day long and solves, when anyway, only in the late noon. Only in the Namibian summer (December until March) almost no fog formation occurs. If therefore you want to flee from this fog, you start a day excursion through the Namib into the northern part of the Namib Naukluft Park. With an all-terrain space wheeled vehicle you drive past flourishing plantations along the Swakop River or also in the dry river itself (here is built on vegetable- also asparagus, and fruits- also bunch of grapes, because the Swakop River leads water in an underground way). After few kilometres the fog is cleared and the Namib develops with full splendour in the glistening sunshine in front of you. Past at the old mail station with separate kraals for the draught oxen and accommodations as well as brothel for the coachmen banished into this solitude by the Swakopmunder, because  the stink of the ox dung and the many flies nerved them), you will experience the nature in a breath-taking variety of sand, gravel, stones, gorges, dunes, plants (Nara melon etc.) and animals (Klipspringer etc.). After a short hold at the "sounding stones", here the San (Bushmen) have contacted themselves by beating with a stone onto a bigger hollow stones, you will come after crossing the "moon landscape" to a miraculous plant: "Welwitschia Mirabilis", which adorns also the state coat of arms of Namibia due to the relatively frequent occurrence. These several a hundred years old plants with up to 2,50 meters long leaves take on the water that drips through fog moisture from their leaves onto the subordinate root system. It is also claimed however, they would have roots up to the groundwater.

on the B2 / C14 further in direction to the south

Sossusvlei, Dead Vlei, Sesriem
Many visitors to Namibia say that no part of the desert is visually more stunning than Sossusvlei, a big clay pan with its monumentally high dunes. These gigantic star-shaped mountains of sand - one of the largest was measured from the base to be 325 m high - are a sought-after topic for artists and photographers. The warm tints of the sand contrast vividly with the dazzling white surface of the large deflationary clay pans at their bases. One of these, referred to as  Dead Vlei/Pan, is a large ghostly expanse of dried white clay, punctuated by skeletons of ancient camel-thorn trees, carbon-dated as being between 500 and 600 years old. Sossusvlei mountainous dunes lie at the end of an erosion trough formed by the Tsauchab River. They are shaped by strong multi-directional winds, primarily the southwester, and three to five sinuous crests, which meet at the highest point to give them their star shape.
The permit office complex for entry to Sossusvlei and other destinations in this part of the park is at Sesriem. Four kilometres south from here is Sesriem Canyon, where the erosion of many centuries has incised a narrow gorge about 1 km in the length, formed by the Tsauchab River in former times. At the foot of the gorge, which plunges down 30 - 40 metres, are pools that become replenished after good rains. Sesriem derives its name from the time when early pioneers tied six lengths of rawhide thongs together to draw water from these pools.
The Duwisib Castle also is a known attraction of the southern Namibia. It was built by the legendary Baron Hans-Heinrich von Wolf in 1908/1909 and is situated in the rolling red hills south west of  Maltahöhe. This German fortress with its 22 rooms is one of the greatest curiosity in Namibia.

on the C14 / C 13 / B4 further in direction Lüderitz / Kolmanskop

West of the small town Aus in direction of Lüderitz the landscape looks like an infinite plane, which melt with the sky at the far horizon. Here is the home of the wild horses of the Namib, one of the few stocks of desert horses in the world.  Lüderitz has developed since 1908 right in a rock landscape when diamonds occurrences were discovered then there. With plenty of German colonial buildings Lüderitz did survive the time and the rough weather of the decades, which was not the case of other mining industry settlements as Kolmanskop, Elisabeth Bay and Pomona. These were left suddenly and changed therefore to ghost towns. The country then forced out of the Namib for the building of houses fetches back the desert to itself now again. In many places only still the gables of the former in part very much neat buildings look out of the hot desert sand.