Red wiping the body Simba women Africa gods walk

To Africa before, Aboriginal Africa image in my mind, from a few films of africa. In the film, the face painted with paint, hair feather, holding spears, the gods in general in the prairie walk...... Came to Africa to understand, most of the land in Africa, has been the modern civilization, while retaining the native primitive way of life has a few, live in the family semi-nomadic Simba Namibia is one of them.

Simba women is like a colored symbols

To explore the "end of the world"

Hundreds of years ago, Zimbabweans as a Bantu people of East Africa, from migrating to today's northwestern Namibia, they rely on raising cows and sheep for a living. Seasonal rotation, they also with herds of migration, migration from one pool to another. They are out of the ordinary, because they are living in extremely remote wilderness, and strongly guarded its civilization this position. Here the harsh natural conditions, the colonists and farmers are not here to spread the "civilization". Now, Simba tribal most centralized place, to a place called Opvo the number of Northwest Namibia Kunene province. "Opuwo" is "the end of the world" means in the Himba patois. It is a desolate, by decorating the purple hills and strange monkey bread tree in the world, nature to protect Simba primitive culture, all arrange skillfully concealed.

We walked to the known as "the end of the world", a road really suffer many: the hot sun baked the car, billowing smoke blurred the vision. After 3 hours of bumps along the way, we finally came to a small town. The town is all natural and peaceful, here the only street was dusty, the houses on both sides of the dilapidated.

Then, Zimbabweans figure began to appear in our vision: a group of naked red brown upper body Simba women, the head of the jar file out from our front, calm, calm and gracefully across the street. And a head has apparently not been domesticated pigs also heel in their behind swagger through the streets, a dark mane is covered with dust.

Only one hotel in town, the guide took us to a small supermarket nearby to buy some sugar, flour, tobacco and vaseline. The tour guide said, this is for us today to visit the Simba village gift, the gift, visit their village will not have to pay.

Cars carrying these gifts, also with hope and curiosity, we gradually expanded, the Himba villages into. The gravel at the end, a large and long sticks are erected in the soil, thick round into a circular Village -- the Himba free from the civilized world outside the village.

The tour guide took out from the car's gift bought into the village, to the Himba mentioned what, very satisfied with the villagers, readily promised to let us visit the village.

Into the village, a strong fishy smell is coming, and our feet as if on a soft quilt, looked down, before we know the whole village ground is made of cow dung mixed with dirt paved. Zimbabweans home, is so rough and simple, natural and primitive. Then, the tour guide began to follow the prescribed order the Himba history, customs etc..