Top 5 attractions of Usakos town in Namibia, southern Africa

Usakos is located 140 km from Swakopmund on main highway to Windhoek in Namibia, southern Africa.

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Usakos:
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Timecodes:

0:55 Railway station
1:56 Locomotive No. 40
2:52 Municipality building
3:14 Dutch Reformed Church
3:43 Water towers
4:18 Bonus: Namib Oasis Farmstall & Deli

Usakos is a town on the banks of Khan River, 140 kilometres north-east of Swakopmund in the Erongo Region of Namibia. It is located on the B2 road (Trans-Kalahari Highway), the main road between the Walvis Bay and Johannesburg. The town has 3,000 inhabitants and owns 58 square kilometres of land.

Surrounded by mountains, Usakos is very picturesque. Certain spots around the town show the longest uninterrupted horizon in the world. It is the closest town to the Spitzkoppe, often referred to as the "Matterhorn of Namibia".

The settlement was founded in the early 1900s as a workshop and watering station for locomotives - water towers are still in town. Herero chief Samuel Maharero sold the land to Europeans who resold it in 1903 to the Otavi Minen- und Eisenbahngesellschaft (Otavi Mining and Railway Company) (OMEG) which operated an industrial railway line from Swakopmund to Tsumeb. OMEG established a railway station and a repair shop which was used until the 1960s. When mining operations slowed down, Usakos' importance faded quickly. Today it is just a drive-through from the Namibian inland to the coast.

Historic buildings and structures in Usakos are the Roman Catholic church (erected 1905), the now dilapidated railway station building and the old hotel.

Usakos is the hometown of the following prominent politicians:

Michael Goreseb, member of the National Assembly of Namibia
Theo-Ben Gurirab, Speaker of the National Assembly
Tsudao Gurirab, Member of Parliament from 1999 to 2009
Alpheus ǃNaruseb, Minister of Land and Resettlement

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