A unique opportunity to visit the fast vanishing world of the Bushman (now more correctly called the San people). This 10-day safari in both Namibia and South Africa will allow us to visi
t the Ju/’hoan bushman community. Although a lot is dependent on the ‘vibe’ in the village at , we may join the men on a blue wildebeest hunt, help the women on a field trip to gather bulbs and other , join in their evening singing and sometimes trance dance with their shaman, learn about string making, making poison arrows, build traps, interpret animal tracks and signs.
These people, altho
ugh very ‘primitive’ in our terms, are exceedingly friendly, innocent and hospitable and our guests this year have said it was the most cultural experience of their lives. We stay in tented camps and also one night in a luxury lodge at Okonjima, the lion, cheetah and leopard cat rehabilitation centre which has gained an international reputation.
We end with 4 days at Bushmanskloof outside Cape Town where professional anthropologists show us an explain the San rock-art there which is up to 20,00
0 years old. There is an option of a 3 day extension in Cape Town. Another option for more Bushman culture is Jack’s Camp in Makgadikgadi Pan in the midst of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert.
