Videos tagged with "19th"

Rock Art - Drakensberg - South Africa [02:38]
The Drakensberg Experience is centred on the Drakensberg World Heritage Site, which includes Giant's Castle and the Central and Northern Drakensberg. Known to the Zulu people as uKhahlamba ('barrier of spears'), the Drakensberg mountains ('dragon mountains') provide a magnificent semi-circular border between KwaZulu-Natal and the inland mountain kingdom of Lesotho. This 200km-long mountain range has witnessed many historical events in South Africa's history. The San people were probably the first to gaze upon its magnificence, but they tragically disappeared in the late 19th century, leaving only engraved rock walls and artefacts to remember them by. The same range was also the western boundary of the mighty Zulu kingdom, encountered by the Boer settlers around 1837 on their Great Trek north from the Cape Colony.
Tags: Drakensberg Rock Art, self-drive, route tourism, travel routes, experience, adventure, authentic, San, rock art, Drakensberg, South Africa, Africa, traditional

Tanzania Maasai - Moran, Eunoto - The coming of age ceremony of the Maasai warrior [05:03]
Arriving from the lower Nile valley north of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya and central Tanzania between the 17th and late 18th centuries; the Maasai -- often misspelled Masai -- territory achieved its largest size during the mid-19th century, covering virtually all of the Great Rift Valley and neighboring Mt Marsabit in the north and as far south as Dodoma. Although today you will find; Maasai moved as far south as the town of Iringa and sometimes beyond. The Maasai, a Nilotic ethnic group of semi-nomadic origins, are among some of the best known tribes in Africa. The tribe consists of twelve geographic sectors, each with its own leadership, dialects, customs and appearance, a characteristic still being followed today. Their distinctive dress, with red as a favorite color; Maasai are often known as bright and colorful ornamented warriors. The main article of clothing being a wrap; women's wraps are called kanga, where men's wraps are called kikoi. Another characteristic of these people are the fact that they reside near the many game parks in East Africa. During the German invasion, the people of the Maasai stood against slavery, and outsiders looking for people to enslave kept away from these people who managed to live alongside most wild animals. A myth about the Maasai: each young man is thought to kill a lion before "Emorata", and in doing this, obtains great importance while becoming an icon in the community. Lion hunting has been banned in East Africa, although it ...
Tags: East, Africa, Tanzania, Maasai, Moran, Il-Murran, Eunoto, coming, of, age, ceremony, jumping, dance, Adumu, Aigus, Emorata, circumcision, culture, traditional, tribe, kenya, lower, Nile, Lake, Turkana, Great, Rift, Valley, Mt, Marsabit, Dodoma, Iringa, so

The most unusual 19th hole in the world. [01:00]
A couple from the USA take a helicopter flip to get to the most unusual 19th hole in Limpopo province.
Tags: South Africa, adventure, golf, 19th hole, Limpopo

Kaapse Klopse South Africa 2011 [00:25]
Although the traditional black and white minstrel shows are thought of as un-PC by most, minstrels come out in force at the Kaapse Klopse of Cape Town Minstrels Carnival, though in reverse! In 1848 as a protest against their former masters, ex-slaves whited up their faces and sung songs parodying the behaviour of important local figures and the tradition has been passed down through families ever since. Today around 46000 white faced minstrels don their brightly coloured garb and musical instruments and parade through the streets of Cape Town on New Years Day (traditionally the slaves only day off.), although for 2011 there seems to be an ongoing political argument that the Festival is to occur on the 3rd of January as the 2nd is the day of the sabbath. Many important local acts now become part of the minstrel shows and historically this was a way for dark skinned South Africans to become involved in the music industry. Originally, on 19th June , 1890 Orpheus Myron McAdoo's Virginia Jubilee Singers from the city of Hampton arrived to Cape Town, it was the first black minstrels to perform and tour South Africa. The reception held in there honor was overwhelming and the blacks of the city were giving pleasing smiles, there was aura of happiness around and air was filled with black people's joy. This event became a legend as it started an historic event, a festival called Kaapse Klopse which has its meaning as clubs in Cape Dutch, or as in English, it is said as troupes ...
Tags: South Africa 2011

South Africa Road Trip - Heading to Addo - 19th August 2010 [00:22]
Denise taking photos.
Tags: Addo, ostrich, south africa