During your walks into the bush, you will be introduced to the Kalahari and Bushman way of life. Spontaneous gathering and discussions about the uses of plants and wildlife by your Bushman Guides provide the link between culture and wild environment. In the Bushman village you will learn from the women how to prepare the bushfoods using only the most basic of tools and an open fire. You will be able to sample a variety of foods from wild spinach and roast beetles to ostrich egg omelet cooked on the coals. Some of the women will show us how they make beads from ostrich eggs and the simple but striking jewelry that they make from porcupine quills, seeds and ostrich eggs.
Leather is decorated with both glass and ostrich beads to complex and beautiful effect.
With the men. walk into the bush and search out the poison grub beetle and gather suitable roots, sanseveria leaves and branches for the manufacture of rope, bows and arrows. After returning to the Bushmen village, watch the men prepare bows, arrows and quivers. The next day you will have the opportunity to track, stalk and hopefully hunt down some wild quarry using traditional bows and arrows. Meet a traditional healer and walk out into the bush searching for ancient traditional remedies and cures still in use today. You will spend one day away from the Bushman for a visit to Drotsky's Caves.