Part II

hey hey, back in London in Tom's house in Crystal Palace. Headed out to Brighton to stay at his Grandmahs again in just a bit but one of his old flatmates has a computer so...
When we left that rocky bit of the Namibian mountains we headed down towards the capital of Namibia, Whindhoek. We spent a night in the city and went to a really great game resturaunt and brewery. The game resturaunts (we went to a lot) have all sorts of the wild game cooked up for you to eat. That night in Windhoek (don't get mad) I had Zebra and it was awesome. Even some of the others at the resturaunt thought that we shouldn't eat the animals we came to see but I couldn't resist and I'm glad I didn't cause it was great. Anyway otherwise the city was pretty much a city, not a whole lot to see although the spot that we parked to go in for the internet and stuff was the parking lot of the Namibian Supreme Court which I thought was pretty funny. Alright so after that it was on to Botswana.

The first night in Botswana we stayed in a little secluded camp that had Bushman huts that you could upgrade to for 2 dollars a night.

Basically the Bushmen are these small African people that were dislocated from there lands by the migration of the bantu people and moved into the desert and lived in small groups. Some people still try to live that way but they're dying out because their children don't want to live like that anymore when they see their other options. Anyway a couple of these people came to show us different ways they find food and use plants for medicine and it was realy cool. Most of the other "cultural" stuff that we've done so far felt a little bit fake and designed for tourists. This didn't feel like that as much although we were all skeptical in the beginning.

They started a fire with sticks, that was cool, I've never been able to do that


they get water from digging up this root and scraping it into little filings and then crushing the water out of it

they told us about their desserting teenagers and we could only wonder whether the littlest ones would decide to live like their parents and grandparents or go off to join the modern society

they really are pretty tiny people

oops, iv'e gotten ahead of myself, I know you'll forgive me. Before heading down to the capital of Namibia I forgot to tell you about Etosha National Park. Dividing Angola from Namibia Etosha is one of the least visited game parks in southern africa and we saw tons of stuff there. The camp site that we stayed at within the park itself was on the edge of this massive watering hole that they lit up at night with floodlights and all sorts of stuff came there. Unfortunately the pictures at night are pretty bad but we saw rinos and jackals and Zebras and that sort of thing come down to drink.
Alright I have a ton of Animal pictures from the safaris through Etosha but we have to leave again so I'll update again when I can (which should be soon)