Today we left Konka Kamps and set off back towards Pretoria stopping at the Lasedi Cultural village.
One of the boys described the experience as a bit like Beamish in Africa, but with Elephant Skulls Zulu Warriors & barbequeed caterpillers. (I'll leave you to observe the likenesses).
The Village welcomed us and the first real opportunity for souveneers presented itself. Needless to say there are some interesting gifts on their way back to the uk. And some of our group have learnt some valuable bartering skills from Mr Johnny Hedley who displayed cool confidence within the Market.
Within the Village we were taken around and introduced to many different tribes and explained a little about each. The trip culminated in a giant hut adorned with elephant skulls (very indiana jones as observed by one of the younger members of the tour) in the hut we were treated to some amazing traditional dancing with Will Peart-Bentham holding his own in the dancing ring whilst Mr Dias was challenged to stickfighting by the Mderbele. A great trip and very educational with the boys now aware that in the future a wife is worth 20 cows and sits on the right of the hut because "they are always right!"
At the end of the trip we had some traditional cuisine with Sweet & sour crocodile, Biltong, Ostrich and chocholate pudding with custard!
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