Day 8 Damaraland
We got to sleep in a bit as our bus didn’t leave the hotel until 8:45. The drive was relatively short, maybe 6 hours, and we stopped in a little community called Uis (Wheess) for a bathroom break where we were charged R1 to use a bathroom that had no paper and the facet was falling off, lol. But 1 Rand is like 15 cents and it was better than peeing on the side of the road with oncoming traffic!
I keep laughing when Marietta says that it NEVER rains in Namibia and yet we have seen a rainbow nearly every day!
Today we seen a bit of the poorer side of the country and stopped at a roadside market to buy trinkets. The ladies dress in full dresses that I imagine would have been worn 200 years ago in the USA, and the hats…..well, that was completely unique! They were cloth caps with something like a cloth rolling pin across the front 
We spent the night at a campground. No pool this time but there was the option to sleep outside and I chose to sleep in a straw hut. Some others slept on cement pads and the rest slept in the tents. After lunch we drove to a near by World Heritage site, Twyfelfontein, and checked out some ancient art work on the rocks. It was very awesome and I saw 3 different types of lizards or geckos.
After the hike we gave a ride to the 4 women working at the site and got a lesson in Damaraland language. They use 4 different types of clicks when speaking, none of which I can replicate, and they are used as exclamation points at the beginning of the words. The women also all had a design in gold on one of their front teeth. I didn’t have time to ask what that was all about. 
After a kick ass supper of some sort of creamed chicken with rice and veggies we went over to a gathering area for some local singing and dancing. It was a lot of fun and we all joined in the dancing and singing at the end. All in all it was an okay day. Tomorrow will be Etosha National Park where we will do our first game drive. I’m EXCITED!!
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