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DAMARALAND - TOUR with ROCK CARVINGS at SOSOS
With this tour we want to introduce you to the live of the inhabitants of Damaraland. We will show you the
flora, huge Savannah areas of grass, bushes and plants, like tobacco or in the wilderness Welwitschias.
After a trip through the village of Sesfontein with its schools, medical-station, church and police-station, we visit
the natural springs. These Fountains which was formed years ago are still used and the springs of Sesfontein still
give water to the gardens of the people, prepared hundreds of years ago.
The hot springs of ONGONGO waterfalls, forms a natural pool, which invites you to a bath in an unbelievable
surrounding.
Our open Game–viewer vehicle brings us deeper and deeper into untouched regions, we follow the off road
tracks and find the seldom WELWITSCHIA plants and natural wildlife. This area is also home to BLACK–
RHINO and LIONS.
Before we come to SOSOS we take our bush-picnic at a designated area.
Refreshed after the picnic, we find Sosos, a temporary fountain and learn who lived here. This was the right
place for SAN- People in earlier times for a successful hunt. Did they just spend their time by creating hundreds
of carvings of the former wildlife or was this in fact an act of thanking the gods of hunting .Nobody knows
what was the need, more than a 1000 years ago, to create this objects.
With a lot of impressions and thoughts crossing your mind, we shall go back through the bush-savanna, in the
direction of the Hoanib, and drive back to the fort.