Hereros are about 100.000, with different sub-groups.

Also Himba are in the Herero group.

Herero women wear colourful clothes, wich style comes from the colonial period.

Hereros are farmers and shepherds, the cattle represents the biggest richness for a village.

Many Herero live in the North, in Opuwo.

Himbas live in the North-East of the country from the 16th century.
They aren't leaving their ancient costumes and jewels and life style.

Himbas are very beautiful, tall and slim and elegant.
Women and children have a mix of butter and red sand on their skin, a way to be protected from the sun.

Women wear skirts madeof goat leather, many necklaces and bracelets made of seeds, tin, small pieces of wood, leather.

We visited a couple of villages close to Opuwo, taking some presents, like butter, sugar, salt, meat.

We gave the presents to the head of the village, so he gave us the permission to going around taking pictures.

During the day in the villages there are only women, children and old people: the boys and the men are in the fields and hills with the cattle.

Damaras were shepherd, but during the colonial period they became farmers.

In 1960 the South African administration gave them an area called "Damaraland".

Unfortunately that area was not good for farming and many Damaras had to find a job in the farms of white people or in the towns.

Damaras wear western style clothes and use their traditional clothes only in special occasions.

Damaras has got a very partucular language, made of clicks and very strange sounds.

We met many Damaras in Khorixas.

Bushmen or San are the most ancient group.

They are hunters, able to live in a very difficult hambient: the desert of Kalahari.

About 1500 years ago, the Bantu tribes conquered the lands of Bushmen and 200 years ago arrived the Europeans.

Nowadays there are very few San and Bushmen tribes in Namibia and Botswana.

Close to Marienbad there's a sort of reserve with a Bushman village. You can stay there for a day and knowing their life and hunting style. It's a way to save this culture from extinction.

Europeans are about 100 000, descending from Germans and South Africans. The most part of them is involved in farming, trading and tourism. I met some owners of restaurants, resorts, travel agencies, shops.

Some of them told me the biggest difference between white and black people is the way they look at the job and at the future.

For white people job is very important and it's the way to gaign money, improve their life style and give more opportunities to their children. Black people live in tribes wich means problems, money, children education... everything is in common. Job is a way to gaign money, but they think at the present and are not used to save money for the future.

White people have more or less the control of the economy and many black people work for them.