| Epupa Falls on the Kunene River |
I left Sesfontein and went in the
direction of Opuwo. The landscape isn't so wide and I steered my single fighter
(the Samurai) over the bumpy road through a small valley up
the pass and then over a green valley on a plateau.
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Opuwo was the last large village. The dirt road
will be dirtier and worst. For some poeple was 100 km later in
Epembe finish. I must cross a river. A dry river. But it was very sandy and
somebody had some problems and went back. Later I know, 2 groups finished
there your trip today and couldn't arrive the camp in Epupa. The next
70 km was slowly and a little difficult. Sometimes I swam in the sand and I'm
happy, that's not for so a long time. Then about a short time the road was
fast but behind the little hills you could see a curve steep down to left or
right. Surprise, surprise. And so the way was a little bit longer as I had thought. The safety
speed was 40 and the maximum. And every time stood outside of the road this
small himbahuts and the Himbas yourself. Later I found out that the Himbas
would like get a picture date. The second job next to the breeding and a
easy job by the tourists.
At the afternoon I arrived the Epupa Falls and stood in the Omarunga Camp. The people greeted in German und we had fast a small talk. Uwe, a East German from Halle, is the manager and stood in Namibia for some years. He works normality on a farm, but just in this camp at the Epupa Falls since 4 month and would like stay here a longer time. It's a nice place. At the evening we went in the village. Only some huts and a little supermarket for some things and the necessary also for the "Tafel Lager beer". There we sat in the late night together with the Himbas and apparent without a finish. Permanent came a new 6-pack Tafelbeer. A chieftain of the Himbas came to me and greet me with peculiar handshakes. I asked Uwe, is this normal and he said - He just invented this. He is drunk. The chieftain checked me and apparent the Himbas laughed about me. It was true, the drunk chieftain said, you haven't a woman. And I don't know, which joke they done about me. The next day I met him again. I went by car and he ask me whatever. I didn't understand him, but I think he would like went by car with me. But he was drunk again and I hadn't enjoy of this trip. But Uwe said me later, yes he would like went by car in his village and I had got all thinks what I would like of him. Food, drinks, women etc.. Well, this was the time after the Himbatour.
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