Twyfelfontein & Damaraland / Namibia 2015 - Part III
Twyfelfontein & Damaraland Highlights;
Leaving the Skeleton Coast behind we enter what I call Flintstone Country in Namibia. A very rocky, dry and what appears to be a desolate landscape. Well, desolate and isolated it might be, but here I found two of the most intriguing and gentle people who inhabit this land. The Damara People and the Himbas.
The Damara People
Widely believed to be the oldest inhabitants of Namibia after the Bushmen and the Nama, and sharing a similar language and customs with the Nama, the precise origins of the Damara remain something of a mystery.
Following the establishment of German colonial rule over Namibia, the first Damara 'reserve' was created in 1906 around the Okombahe area. This original area was enlarged upon the recommendations of the Odendaal Commission of Inquiry in the 1960s, when so-called tribal homelands were created for the different ethnic groups in Namibia. The Damara 'homeland' was established in the northwest of the country.
They speak the Khoekhoe language which is one of the clicking languages.'
The Himbas
All over Africa there are tribes who respect and live according to the traditions of their ancestors. Examples include the Maasai tribe in Kenya, the Pygmies in Congo. However, the one that intrigues me the most is the Himba tribe in north-western Namibia.
The first settlements of the Himba people can be traced back to the early 16th century when they crossed the Angolan border and chose Cunene region as their new homeland. At that time the word Himba did not exist because of the fact that they had not yet separated themselves from the Herero tribe.
The red ochre cream that the Himba are famous for is made by pounding the ochre stone (Hematite) into small pieces. Thereafter the fragments are mixed with butter, slightly heated by means of smoke and applied on the skin. After many conversations with the elders of the tribe I have come to the conclusion that the main reason for the red ochre is to establish a difference between men and women. Moreover, the red layer seems to help against the scorching sun radiation, while keeping the skin clean and moist and to some extent it blocks hair growth on the body.
On top of the women’s head in the picture you find the Himba crown: the Erembe. This crown is made of cow or goat leather and is placed on the head when a girl reaches puberty. The red ochre, however, is applied when the girls are old enough to look after themselves hygienically. The tribe’s men do not apply red ochre on their skin.
The Himba people stick to porridge. Every morning and evening they heat some water, wait until it boils, and put some flour in it, maybe add some oil and food is served. The flour is mostly from maize but from time to time you might find some mahangu flour as well.
Twyfelfontein
Twyfelfontein is an 'open-air gallery' with the largest single concentration of rock art engravings in southern Africa. There are over 2000 rock engravings and a few rock paintings at Twyfelfontein. More than 200 giraffe and 100 rhino are shown as well as ostrich, impala, elephant and zebra. Predators like lion are scarce, although one particular lion is exceptional. Kudu, wildebeest and baboons are also rare in the engravings. Although human figures are common in the rock paintings, they rarely occur in the engravings.
Petrified Forest
The name is a bit misleading as it is not exactly a forest, which turned to stone, but rather an accumulation of enormous fossilized tree trunks about 280 million years old. Scientist found out that these trunks haven’t grown in today’s Namibia but were washed down a river in ancient times when one of the many Ice Ages ended on the Gondwana continent. There must have been a huge flood that carried along the trunks to where they lie today.
This flood also carried a lot of sand and mud which covered the trees to such an extent that air intrusion was prevented and consequently no decay took place. The organic material of the trunks was conserved. Due to enormous pressure and over a period of millions of years even the finest structures of the wood have been dissolved by silicic acid and replaced by quartz, which is silicic acid in crystalline state. The result is perfectly conserved and completely petrified trunks.
Thanks to erosion many of these trunks are now exposed and amongst many smaller specimens two fully exposed trees measuring up to 45 m have been discovered.
Petrified Forest - Versteinerter Wald in Namibia
Eindrücke vom Petrified Forest, dem Versteinerten Wald bei Twyfelfontein in der Gegend von Khorixas. Auf der Seite findet Ihr unseren Namibia-Reisebericht mit weiteren Videos, Bildern und unseren ganz persönlichen Eindrücken von dem weiten, schönen Land.
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Andiamo alla scoperta di Cose da fare in Damaraland.
Le pricipali attivita sono :
Spitzkoppe
White Lady
Damara Living Museum
Twyfelfontein
Brandberg Mountain
Petrified Forest
Organ Pipes
Burnt Mountain
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Petrified forest in Namibia near Twyvelfontein.
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The Petrified forest located some 40 kilometres west of the Namibian town of Khorixas, on the C39 road, is a deposit of large tree trunks that have turned to stone through a process of diagenesis.There at least two large tree trunks exposed to view and more may be out of sight.The site was declared a National Monument on 1 March 1950.It is believed that the trees were swept downstream by a large flood and covered by alluvial sands.
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Film z wybranymi atrakcjami Damaralandu, regionu na północy Namibii. Na filmie: krajobrazy, Brandberg, wioska Damara, Finger Rock, Organ Pipes, Petrified Forest, ...
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Damaraland Part 2 - English
From Palmwag to the Spitzkoppe in Namibia. We visit the petriefied forest, the rockengravings at Twyfelfontein and the Damara living Museum. Brandberg with the white Lady and the Spitzkoppe.
Damaraland
Une traversée du Damaraland en accéléré (10x). Point de départ: le site
de Petrified Forest. Point d'arrivée: les environs de la ville de Uis.
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Heute zeigen wir euch den versteinerten Wald in Namibia, es ist unglaublich was wir da zu sehen bekamen.....
Der Versteinerte Wald (afrikaans Versteende Woud, englisch Petrified Forest) im südwestafrikanischen Staat Namibia ist ein versteinerter Wald, wie er auch an verschiedenen anderen Stellen der Erde vorkommt.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Damaraland Part 1 - English
From Palmwag to the Spitzkoppe in Namibia. We visit the petriefied forest, the rockengravings at Twyfelfontein and the Damara living Museum. Brandberg with the white Lady and the Spitzkoppe.
Living Museum of the Damara, Namibia
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The Traveling Wizard, aka Bill Wiatrak visits the western part of Namibia known as Damaraland. He visits a traditional tribal village, stops by the petrified forest and catches a few sights on the way to the UNESCO world heritage rock engraving site of Twyfelfontein.