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Showing posts with label pictures from Swaziland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pictures from Swaziland. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

A Few Pix

Here are a few pix from travels thus far.

My current rondaval aka "Posh Corps."

A traditional village as seen at the Cultural Village

Traditional dancers at the Cultural Village


Impala at the game preserve.

Eland at the game preserve.

Zebra at the game preserve

My new homestead starting at the end of this month. end of this month. You can't see my actual hut, but it's in the trees just in front of the latrine, which is the building with two doors on the far right. 

"Khokho (Great Grandmother) Mahlalela shucking maize. And how many of us can sit comfortably on the ground like that? She's older than we are! Nothing is wasted: the maize will feed the chickens, the husks will feed the cattle and the cobs will fuel cookfires."

I asked her permission to post this pic, and she was a bit embarrassed and more delighted. Perhaps the rest of the family will let me post their pix, too. I'll ask soon.

The wind is warm tonight, and gusting past the stars. The newborn piglets grumble now and then and all in all, Africa is a pretty cool place to be.