Up early, (yes we do this a lot!) for an 8 am pick up for our tour. We met Steve, our guide for the day and make tracks, it will take approximately 25 minutes to get to the village. Brendan and I sit in the back of the safari vehicle with David up front.

While in school I watched a movie called “The Gods Must Be Crazy” – I loved it, an even have a copy of it at home, I still watch it now and then – you have to have a particular sense of humour for this film ( David and Brendan don’t). Anyway, this tour takes us to the bushman people – like in the movie. While we were bumping along thru the narrow tracks Steve tells us that this village, “Mountain Hill” village, is the actual one from the movie & the bushman was from here- Holey Moley – how surreal. We reach the village & bushman come out to greet us – they look and talk exactly the same as in the film! – they do not speak any English – and talk with clicks – the guide has to interpret for us.

After photos we head out for a 3-hour bush walk (was extremely hot in the sun, luckily, we had hats and long sleeves on), where we are shown different foods the tribe would pick to eat.

We tried 2 types of sour plums… yep they are really sour…. They also dug up some water root plant (some can hold up to 5kg of water) and bush potatoes. We are shown how they make fire. How they make rope buy shredding the “Mother-in–Law’s Tongue” plant – they made Brendan a bracelet.

The rope is also used in snares for small animals – one was demonstrated. Animal skins are used for clothing and to hold arrows in. We are also shown the plants which they make the poison for the arrows – used to hunt animals. Ostrich eggs are used as cups for drinking.

We then load up the vehicle with bushmen and go to the “Nye Nye” pans – these are salt pans and are very dry. It is extremely hot and the wind is even hotter, sitting in the front row of the safari vehicle the wind dries out your eyes.

We stop for lunch at a very large boab tree.

On the way back, the bushman drove for a bit – this was really weird, and seemed so out of place!

Back at the village we are shown their bow and arrow skills – we are then shown how to do this. They make up a funny looking animal out of sticks and grass for us to aim for, both David and Brendan have go and miss, then one last time David hits the target- Brendan missed. I tried – no such luck – it was pretty bad…

We said goodbye to our new friends and made our way back to the campsite. It was still hot and windy, we decided to have a few drinks and a swim to cool off.