My 3-days excursion

       I've already been in Oshakati for five days. Some of the people that live here manage themselves to talk in English, so our communication is quite good. As they understood the reason why I was there, they thought the best way that I could help them was to make an excursion around the Namibian North Region in order to discover which were the people biggest needs. A local woman, Marcia, who knew very well the region, offered herself for going with me so I wouldn't get lost. We decided to go to Omuthiya, to Tsumeb, and to to Okahao. To the first two town we'll go by car and then we'll get back to Oshakati. That part of the trip should take us no more than two days and then we'll go mounting elephants to Okahao. The hole excursion would last three days. We're leaving tomorrow morning, at half past six.

(Look at the Google map I created by clicking on the right in "my excursion map")

Day 1

        Today we have been first to Omuthiya. I saw the poverty of it population within my arrival. Marcia showed me the place and explained me how things were made over there. I helped some people with some activities, but what I principally did was to see how people lived there. After having been like seven hours in the town, we decided to continue the journey and to move on to Tsumeb. When we arrived there, the sun was starting to disappear. This village was much more developed than Omuthiya, despite that there were also poor people. Marcia showed me some parts of this small city and for when  the night had arrived, we were sharing dinner with some Marcia's friends. This helped me a lot in my study of their culture. Now I'm staying with them for passing the night.

Day 2
       Today we got up early and went to visit the outside of the town, after thanking our last hosts. Lots of people were already working and I didn't like the conditions in where they worked. Then, with Marcia as a guide, we travelled some ten kilometres walking and we arrived to a lake that has a very particular geographical structure called sink hole  After being in that extraordinary place for some moments we came back to the town. Not much later that day, we left Tsumeb for getting to Oshakati. We almost didn't stop there and mounted the elephants in order to get to Okahao. It was very exciting and funny, but when we arrived it was almost the night and as we were very tired, we got to a hostel and we went to sleep.

Day 3
       Today we got up at the same hour or nearly the same that yesterday. I founded this town quite similar to the first one I visited. I repeated the routine I been making these last days. For the end of the day I discovered that people had some problems with water: or because they hadn't or because it was dirty. I reminded the thought I had my first day about what should be the problems with the water of these people, and I decided one more time to help them in that aspect. We returned some hours after the getting up in elephants and arrived to Oshakati some hours later.