Mbunza Village, Namibia May 29, 2024 I met Bettina the first evening I arrived in Rundu. She is the owner of the guesthouse and despite being a local, she had not even known of Mbunza village, nor of the living museums scattered around Namibia. Over a couple of drinks at the guesthouse bar, I talked … More Among the Bantu
Khwe Living Museum, Namibia May 26, 2024 Known as the Bushmen of the Kalahari, the San called much of central and western Botswana and central and eastern Namibia, home. Theirs was a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, attuned to the desert and nomadic when the weather conditions demanded. Today they have largely been settled into towns and villages … More Ways of the San
Divundu, Namibia May 24, 2023 Getting to the border from Shakawe was the usual long drawn-out battle in these parts with finding transport, agreeing on a price and then having the price changed after we started. But got there I did and with a deserted immigration post, got stamped out with no wait. At the … More Welcome in Namibia
Tsodilo Hills, Botswana May 22, 2024 It took some searching and a lot more finagling to find a car and a driver who could take me to the site. The lack of petrol in town added to the wait while we waited for the tanker to deliver. But eventually we were on our way, back … More Art of the San
Shakawe, Botswana May 20, 2024 Tucked in the northwest corner of Botswana are a few rocky outcrops that rise from the otherwise flat plain. These are the Tsodilo Hills, considered a sacred ancestral place for the San and Hambukushu peoples. There are paintings on the rock faces of these hills that intrigued me and I … More On the Road to Shakawe
Okavango Delta, Botswana May 18, 2024 Success! Three days of searching and I have found one solo traveler who is keen to go to the Okavango delta. Jules is from Montreal and has just come in from Namibia. He and I lost no time in setting off. Some 1100 kms away in far-away Angola lies … More In the Okavango Delta
Maun, Botswana May 16, 2024 The flight from Johannesburg to Maun was on a puddle jumper where a glance at the other passengers, gave me an inkling of the kind of travelers heading to Maun. Mostly older, clearly well-heeled from the US or Europe, many of them were simply landing in Maun for a few … More Thou Shalt Not Mingle
New York May 11, 2024 The last time I was in Sub-Saharan Africa was 2016 and had promised myself I’d be back. But other parts of the globe beckoned, and little did I know it would take me this long to return. The plan is to cut a huge semi-circle starting BOTSWANA , on through NAMIBIA, … More Off to Africa
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