Bush Baby
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We reached the bushmen camp (Hazabe tribe) at 7am with a translator to "the click language". It's called like this because the have special letters which sound like a "click". Apparently the bushmen's camp is a bush (hmm... I guess the name is not just a coincidence...). They were getting warm around the fire and they were talking about the hunt they are going to do - they were talking about the white guys (Mizungu) who got to the camp.
Bush-guy preparing arrows
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Well.... we've found ourselves running in the bush with 3 children who had bow and arrows.
Come out, come out wherever you are!
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We were looking for anything that moves (snakes, birds, rats, bush babies etc.). We stopped by a rat nest as one of the children started to call it out (by making a female rat squeaking sound), but no one was home. We kept running until one of the kids (who I think worked once as a model (look at the pic)) caught a dove.
Look at me! I'm a dove model!
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When we got back (after almost stepping on venomous snakes), we started a fire (with 2 sticks) and the kids threw the dove into the fire.After half a minute, they shared the dove among themselves. The psycho kid (you can spot him by his crazy look) took a knife, split the dove open and chewed the uncooked intestines... Yak!
Psycho kid
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Baubab tree
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Psycho kid eating breakfast...
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After a short dance with the Bushmen and a short bow practices, we said goodbye and went to another tribe - The Toga. The Toga live about 2000B.C, unlike the Hazabe who lives 3000B.C. they live in mud houses (instead of under a bush), and work as blacksmiths or grow livestock. We reached to one of their villages to watch their day to day life. As we got into the village, a young woman saw my friend, and fell in-love.Even her mother gave the blessing, but I had to separate between the lovebirds, as we had to continue our trip - To The Kilimanjaro!
(don't miss the "5 things you didn't know about..." at the bottom)
Toga head of the family (9 wives!!!)![](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2319/2115107173_dd1a0bf66a_o.jpg)
Blacksmith
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5 things you didn't know about Walt Disney and Swahili languege (a very common African languege):
- "Simba" in Swahili is Lion
- "Pumba" is wart hog
- "Rafiki" (the blue faced monkey in "The Lion King") is friend.
- "Tambo" is an elephant (just like Dambo, the flying one...).
- "Hakuna Matata" is "No Problem" (And they really love to say it).
And one last thing you probably didn't know about the Bushmen - The only animal they don't eat is the hyaena. This is because when a bush-guy dies, they put him out side the camp so the hyaenas will eat it. (and it has a bad taste)
Bon Appetit!
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Fascinating photos and articles! I'll keep tuned for more.
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