Adventure to the North

In mid-August I traveled to the far northwest corner of Namibia with a fellow volunteer to paint another world map at a village school out in the bush. For those of you with maps of Namibia, dig them out and see if you can find Opuwo and Epupa Falls. The village that I was in is between those two places and is called Okanguati, don't know if you'll find it on a map.

There is a PCV teaching at Okanguati Combined School who runs the school library/computer lab that the previous volunteer established. We were there to paint a world map on one whole wall. It was the end of the school term, so there were many learners free from classes and available to help. Even teachers came to paint and contribute to the project. Working in this village school for a week gave me another view of life in Namibia, much different from my own, and also allowed me to see a part of the country that I had never been to before.

After the map was finished we traveled to Epupa Falls on the Angolan border. It was beautiful and well worth the bumpy, make-you-carsick drive on a gravel road. The pictures don't even do it justice, but I thought I would at least try.

The trip back to Windhoek took two days. The first day we traveled from Epupa Falls to Ondangwa across the north of Namibia. We spent the night with another PCV who lives on an Oshiwambo homestead (see photo of the "bath house" with the rusty truck for one of the walls) and then traveled to Windhoek the next day.