Namibia, July 2003 Page 1

Page 1:   Ais Ais Hot Springs, Fish River Canyon , Cheetah Park and a Himba Tribe
Page 2 : Sesrim/Sossusvlei
Page 3 : Etosha National Park and Roadside Scenery

Ais Ais and Fish River Canyon

	An impressive sight - Fish River canyon.  It is very diffiicult to show any sort of scale on photos of scenery like this.
	On maximum zoom... a few pools of water at the bottom.  It is a long way down there though!
Ais Ais is a hot spring in southern Namibia.  The spring and campsite are set in an impressive canyon.  Moonrise and both sunrise and set were all impressive here.  The springs are rather commercialised, and while they are very relaxing after a long day on the road, they are not photogenic!  This was our first camp in Namibia and third night on the truck.

Cheetah Park

	We visited a Cheetah refuge on our way to Etosha.  The cheetahs are fed directly infront of the vehicles holding the tourists, so everyone gets good look.  I think this one is sizing me up for dinner.
	There is a seperate area for juvenile cheetahs.  They are very cute, especially sharing a chunk of meat.
Sally scratching one of the tame locals behind the ears.  The 'tame' cheetahs are orphans that were hand raised.  They can only sit still for affection for a couple of minutes.

Himba Tribe (North Western Namibia)

	The truck crew went to a lot of effort to get our group to a Himba village.   Due to a lack of water, the Himba do not wash, but instead cover themselves in a mixture of ocre (red stuff) and fat (cow fat I think).  We were offered to try some on.  It has a mild smell, but it does seem to work as a bathing replacement.
To go with the ocre smear, the tribe deodorise by burning something similar to incense and having the smoke waft around them.

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