The Himba people

We visited an interesting tribe of people who live incredibly simple and unworldly lives in Northern Namibia. They are the Himba people. They live totally without amenities as we know them, in their compounds of huts, covering themselves with ochre to protect themselves from the environment, with hairstyles that they redo three times a year, and eating a diet mainly of maize as they tend their goats and cattle for a livelihood. But strangely they are quite happy and totally unfazed to receive us as visitors with all our camera gear. They smile and go about their daily activities. We brought food for them as "payment". Our guide was a young Himba man, with some education - most of them never go to any kind of school - and he told us all about their culture. Our visit was very respectful, and to my surprise I felt quite comfortable among these pleasant and primitive people. By the way, the blogger system seems to have changed, and I can no longer type in captions.