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Published: September 9th 2015
After arriving back to Homebase Melville (the hostel I stayed at before Kruger) I got to catch up with my Jon as he was still there trying to sort out some visa business. A quick round with the fellas and im off to the southern Drakensburg Mountains for a bit of hiking and camping! 10 hours in a bus isn’t my favorite way to spend my birthday, but it’s how it went down. Thursday proved to be a lot more fun as we went on a 12km hike looking at the San Bushmen rock paintings. Woa sweeeeet! Hiking and art! Hiking To art! YAAAAY!!!! Very nice hike with an excellent guide and we got to see 3 painting sites. Yessss. All the paintings were made 200-2000 years ago. 27,000 years ago up in Namibia I learned. Gonna have to check it out up there. Lots of eiland (largest of the antelope family here) paintings with the 3
rd site being the largest march of people and the spirit world. Very cool stuff. Thinking of switching my tattoo idea, but I still might see a lion somewhere along the way. The point was to see a lion before I reach Cape Town because
I will have like 5 weeks there to have a few sessions on a larger piece. But now idk! Either way, these paintings were really cool and quite reminiscent of the aboriginal culture in Australia. On the way back I learned about the Basotho people coming from Lesotho bringing large quantities of goods (marijuana) down the Sani pass to a bigger city in SA. I learned this because I found a blanket with a small plastic bag near it. It was full of tobacco. Then another small bag, full of some kind of roots. The guide starting getting a bit antsy and looking around quite a bit. I asked if these smugglers have guns and he said yep! So here I am, back in the mountains, camping and hiking doing my thing. Thinking I am in the clear. We can have nothing go wrong and wamo! Found some stuff on the hike back. Now there’s a naked smuggler chasing us with a gun! AHHH!!!! We actually never saw anyone the rest of the way back though. Never found a huge sack of grass either….weird happenings, but im alive still so no worries!!!!
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toni marano
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Very cool paintings, the smuggler is crazy shit...Reminds me of indiana jones..or i should say now we have minnesota mike.