And more about Namibia

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Day 463
52,109 km since the beginning of the journey.
Opowo.

Some pictures from the last week route. This is a very common sales outlet by a smaller road.

The sales desk is a bit further in the left , the souvenirs for tourists are hanging on the cords. The tent in the right is for lodging.




The children help and wave with the souvenirs by the road.

I have no plan to buy anything – and so water or something to eat is asked. I will give away my spare white bread (half a loaf), as I can buy back again at the next inhabited settlement. The same is with water. Moving here in this semi-deserted region I have taken into account to have more or less adequate supplies from which some part could be shared.


Herero women and their national costumes - long dresses of the time of Victorian.


Here – an attempt is made to line up the smaller children- but no success even during a longer time.






Here, too, water is asked. Quite understood – it is about 35 degrees.

Some more pictures of the village of Damara

In the Smithy.


So a spear is made.


A board game - without a board. There are holes on the ground and stones on the holes, but frankly I did not understand the rules of the game. In fact this is an important game because I was told that problems between the villages were solved by village chiefs and namely by playing not fighting.


Hand drill.




The termites nest, seems to be about 3 meters high.







Hilly and slightly green Namibia. Further away there is a car with a local yellow licence plate and four men are busy by the car. I reduce the speed, stop the car and ask that if everything is OK? Almost ok- is the answer, only the tire is broken and they would need a jack.


With the help of my jack the car is raised and the tire is changed. The tire is rather worn out and the hole too big to fix it at the spot.


The sign is there, and not just one - but no elephants in sight. Then there seems to be an elephant far away by the road, I grab my camera from the side seat and...


... and when I`ve fixed the camera ready, it appears that it`s quite another issue than an elephant ...


Next there is a barrier on the road.


This so-called Namibian Red Line is a veterinary border since 1960.


But the roads in Namibia are somehow particularly dusty, this thick and very thin dust is everywhere




It keeps coming and coming . Every evening it takes at least a quarter of an hour to have the rear part of the car more or less dust-free.


But in general - the bigger roads are quite drivable.


And so are the smaller ones.

And of course, there are Himbas by the road and here are the first pictures Himbas in national dresses








to be continued ...