Trip to South Africa, Day 6: Rock art!

I havent much time to blog today, having been out in the "wild country" and taking pictures with the infrared camera of (finally!) rock art, and now I'm going out to dinner soon.

My hotel, High street 137:

 The rock art site. Yes I'm wearing skiing clothes in several layers, but this was the first day I didnt acually have use for them. It was roughly 30 degrees at the site at most.
The thing with South Africa, like most countries, is that they have nothing like the "allemansrätt", ie most of the land is hedged in and owned by someone, so our guide, an archeolgist, had to borrow some keys from the helpful farmer owing the lands.

A partial hand painted on the rock, the other half being lost due to weathering. The motives varies very greatly in quality, from simple human lookalikes to finely drawn hunters and trees and strang beings.

SO, this is my last chance to blog for this trip, at least while on it. Tomorrow we will be traveling to Uppington, and then into Namibia, ending up in Gobabeb research station on saturday evening, where we will stay until wednesday for the SAAG conference. Then its more photographing in the Cederberg, and then the flight home from cape Town via Doha in Qatar. Be seeing you all!