Old Breweries Craft Market

Windhoek


This hive of tourist shopping euphoria contains a heap of small and large shops with a range of African arts and crafts on offer. A couple of our favourite shops are Woven Arts of Africa, with some wonderfully fine weavings in the form of wall hangings and rugs; and ArtiSan, a small, poky shop with genuine Bushmen crafts.


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