Transkei

Transkei

Transkei

August 25, 2007 January 8, 2019 / Africa Photos

All local women carry amazing packages on their heads

Beautiful big mamas

Beautiful day at Kidd’s Beach

Big Mamas singing, dancing, drumming

Billabong is everywhere

Blessed, blissed

Bob & Silas who is activities manager & drummer at Bombvu

Bob amazes local fishermen by going for a swim in very rough water

Bob gets some exercise

Bob jumping off rock

Brei (grilled) chicken with 3 salads & beans

Bricks & start of foundation for rondavel

Calm spot in a stormy sea

Ceremonial face paint

Coffee Bay

Cook with clay oven

Cooks kitchen at Bombvu

Crochet & shell lid to keep bugs from juice

Dairy cattle land drving to Kidd_s Beach

Dawn _ Bombvu owner_ Monique

Dawn & new friend on walk

Dawn at home in Bombvu

Dawn’s-hair

Drum making at Bombvu

Dunes, rock, ocean & Dawn at Kidd’s Beach

Euro home foreground, Khosa kraal’s in background

Full moon over ocean

Full moon walk

Handmade clay bricks

Hills upon hills of well grazed pasture

Hillside along ocean

Kayaking Mthatha river

Kidd’s Beach

Knoll overlooking Coffee Bay & river mouth

Last river bend before Indian Ocean at Kidd’s Beach

Local cowboy

Mangrove near river mouth on Mthatha

Mangrove swamps & river

Monique serving dinners

Moon & rondavel

My friend Nancy and her bead work

One of many backpacker lodges along Transkei coast

One of many great salt water swimming pools

One of many river mouths in the Transkei

One of the best dogs to befriend us.

Our lovely rondavel

Paddling upstream with Transkei land in background

Bombvu Bob

Bombvu cactus

Bombvu cat

Bombvu dog

Bombvu drumming

Bombvu Firewood

Bombvu mandala

Bombvu mural

Bombvu planet

Bombvu sign

Bombvu Yoga

Bombvu

River boardering Bombvu camp

Sacred pools still used for ceremonies

Sangoma & assistant

Sangoma, kneeling, his wife watching over everything

Sangoma’s assistant

Thatch roof under contruction

The river trail

The river

Town & our BB at Kidd’s Beach

Transke terrain

Typical homes of locals

Village of Coffee Bay

Walking through miiles of hills in Transkei near Coffee Bay

Weaver bird weaving

Yellow flower

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