Post St Mall

Windhoek

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The throbbing heart of the Windhoek shopping district is the bizarrely colourful Post St Mall, an elevated pedestrian walkway lined with vendors selling curios, artwork, clothing and practically anything else that may be of interest to tourists.

Scattered around the centre of the mall is a display of meteorites from the Gibeon meteor shower, which some time in the distant past deposited upwards of 21 tonnes of mostly ferrous extraterrestrial boulders around the town of Gibeon in southern Namibia.

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