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3 Days Bushman Grassroots encounter
Price PP: N$6900.00 (min 2 or 3 people); N$4060 (4 people or more)
Departing any day

The earliest known inhabitants of Nami-bia are the San (Bushmen), who belong to the Khoesan peoples. Generally short in stature, they have light yellowish-brown skins, while their language, which differs among the different groups, is characterised by numerous clicking sounds.

These hunter-gatherers – including the Ju/Hoansi, Kxoe and !Kung – roamed the vast plains of Southern Africa for thousands of years before migrants armed with weapons and searching for new land on which to graze their animals and plant their grain, drove them further and further east into the Kalahari Desert. Most San people now live or work on farms in eastern Namibia or live in remote communal areas in Otjozondjupa and Omusati. There are approximately 35 000 San people in Namibia.

Renowned as great storytellers, the San express themselves eloquently in prose, music, mimicry and dance. Their simplest instrument is the hunter’s bow, strung with animal hair and equipped with a hollowed-out melon or an empty tin can as a sound box. Moth cocoons filled with stones or seeds are attached around their ankles to provide rhythm while they dance.
While a small number of these legendary people still practise their traditional, nomadic lifestyle, the majority lead a settled existence in villages, having been strongly influenced in their way of life by Western culture, economies and lifestyles.

Price Per person:  N$6750.00, Minimum 2 people sharing; Single supplement: N$500.00 (departure any day)

The Himba people who inhabit Namibia’s remote north-western Kunene Region are loosely referred to as the Kaokovelders. Herero in terms of origin, language and culture, they are semi-nomadic pastoralists who tend to trek from one watering place to another. They are semi-nomads who live in scattered settlements throughout the Kunene Region. They are tall, slender and statuesque, and are characterised especially by their proud yet friendly bearing. The women especially are noted for their unusual sculptural beauty, enhanced by intricate hairstyles and traditional adornments. They rub their bodies with red ochre and fat, a treatment that protects their skins against the harsh desert climate.

The homes of the Himba of Kaokoland are simple, cone-shaped structures of saplings, bound together with palm leaves and plastered with mud and dung. The men build the structures, while the women mix the clay and do the plastering. A fire burns in the headman’s hut day and night, to keep away insects and provide light and heat. A family may move from one home to another several times a year to seek grazing for their goats and cattle. Men,

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Windhoek, a small bust-ling city with an estimated population of 300 000. Situated in an airy basin in the central highlands, Windhoek is surrounded by the Auas Mountains to the south-east, the Eros Mountains to the north-east and the Khomas Hochland to the west.
Windhoek is often described as a city with a ‘continental’ atmosphere. This can be ascribed to its architecture – historical buildings dating back to German colonial rule – as well as to its cuisine, culture, dress codes and educational institutions. At the same time Windhoek has the colour, sounds and tempo of a modern African city.

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