Nambia - Catch the Drift NYT

Namibian Landscape, originally uploaded by geoftheref.

Catch the Drift -NYT Article
IN NAMIBIA, EMPTINESS IS REVERED, SOLITUDE IS PERVASIVE, AND AT EVERY TURN IS A VIEW WITH THE POWER TO ASTONISH.
BY NATHAN LUMP

Photograph by geoftheref

I began perhaps the most fantastic single day in all my years of travel by riding up to a traditional Himba ‘‘village’’ — a small clutch of domed mud-and-thatch huts surrounding a pen for livestock, improbably sited in a wide desert valley — on a Honda A.T.V., pulling off my helmet and questioning a bare-breasted and intricately coiffed octogenarian about the changing nature of her world.