Our first stop of the day was to a petrified forest. Here there are trees up to 34 m/111 ft high with 6 m/20 ft circumference. Most are thought to be about 260 million years old. It’s pretty obvious that these trees aren’t from any recent time period since the largest tree around isn’t above 2 m/6.5 ft.
Our next stop was to see a Himba Tribe. The semi-nomadic Himba people are extremely susceptible to Western influence and have lost a large portion of their land to farmers, engineers, miners and many were displaced during the wars that raged in Angola. The dwindling number of pastoralists that still exist in their natural environment are protected as far as possible by creating a “buffer zone”, or an “educational tribe” where tourists who would like to get a better understanding of the way of the Himba, their lifestyle and their traditions, can do so without interfering with those still living in their natural environment. The income that this specific tribe generates from the visits goes towards the education of orphaned Himba children and assists the tribe in giving them a chance to learn about their own culture and heritage.
That night a choir came to sing for us to raise money for their organization.
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