WHITE LADY
Guided tour to discover a remarkable rock fresco, painted over two thousand years ago by a group of Bushmen.
The visit will last about two hours. It is necessary to go in the massif of Brandberg to follow the tracks of the "White Lady"... We advance with a guide damara, because we evolve then on a protected site. It is here that the famous White Lady was discovered in 1918 by the explorer Maack, who gave his name to the shelter. But what is the White Lady? It is nothing more than a rock fresco drawn on a rock of 5.5 m by 1.5 m, painted more than two thousand years ago by a group of Bushmen in the heart of the rock. If there are thousands of rock paintings in the region, this one has been the source of much debate on its interpretation. The character has the particularity of having straight and light hair, could he be non-African? Others see it as a ritual dance. Could it be the self-portrait of a Bushman shaman who painted this fresco? If we take into account the bow, the arrow and the animals all around the painting, wouldn't the drawing rather represent a simple hunting scene? By dint of haunting the German geologist explorer Reinhard Maack, the drawing was nicknamed "White Lady". If archaeologists agree to date the work to 16,000 years, the theories on its origin diverge. The most recent ones tend to show that the painting is indeed of Bushman origin and that the White Lady is a man. But isn't this the beauty and magic of rock paintings, not to understand everything, explain everything, detect everything and leave the past its secrets of history?
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Avis publié : 22 novembre 2019
une belle randonnée qui mène au site de la White Lady, qui n'est ni une lady, ni totalement white. Peinture rupestre étonnamment bien conservée (environ 16 000 ans d'âge !)
La randonnée en soi n'est pas difficile, mais nous l'avons faite sur le chemin entre Uis et Walvis Bay, donc à 14h. Les guides ont tenté de nous dissuader, ce qui était raisonnable, mais pas d'autre choix. Si ce devait être votre cas : prévoyez 2 litres d'eau (un litre fut très très juste), et une bonne condition physique. La chaleur était accablante et nous étions tous les trois (sportifs) au bout du bout au retour (30, 60 et 70 ans).
Mais le paysage est superbe, la peinture et les explications intéressantes, et rencontrant une autre guide et ses deux touristes, nous avons eu la chance incroyable que nos 2 guides se mettent à nous chanter des chansons dans leur langue à clics devant la White Lady ! Moment inoubliable
durée du tout : 2h30 Tarif : 80 Nad/pers et 10 Nad pour la voiture, plus un bon pourboire pour nos guides chanteurs !