All we wanted to do was chill out, relax, spend leisure time and booze and have fu. No adventures, just relaxing and lounging. That was the Plan A.

As per the plan A, we went to Morocco and stayed in Muran resort in Marrakech. What a hotel it was! We were completely bowled over by the look and chic of the hotel and fell in awe of it sinful red swimming pool. Our plan A was in full action and we were having fun time. We were simply having leisure time and fun with no sports or adventure. But then when do we stick with our plans. I mean just imagine living in riyad, with all amenities and facilities we got fascinated with Desert! The bloody desert! I shrieked and I shouted when all these idiots decided we are going out trekking and camping in desert. How can a rose (that’s my name too) survive desert, I would become a thorny cactus. Just imagine my just done nails and hair, how can they take a mermaid of this red heaven pool into the devil of desert. Hell!

Now Plan B

These funky idiots decided to go trekking, or Caravan if I call it in its traditional name. The hotel provided for the jeep to reach Ouarzazate, which was basically the starting point where all the people and camels for the caravan get together, for trans-Saharan camel trekking. We were joined by some other enthusiastic people who all wanted to go on adventure of desert; all the passengers were from different walks of life. And I was petrified and terrified of the camel. I wasn’t much impressed with the beast. I really didn’t like those camels. Tall, dark and definitely not handsome. It was my first experience to see the camel up so close and I had never ridden a camel. But when the guides came in and started getting people comfortable, preparing them for the nomadic life they going to have for the trek of two days. I let my inhibitions, fear and reticence go and from time on I was myself excited to go this Caravan. I was riding the camel named Kamal. That’s some Arabic name I suppose. We didn’t had to steer our camels, guides were all there to help us out with the desert and camel. With our loaded luggage, food and equipment we started out first day travel to our camp that was some place in desert. Had I got lost I couldn’t have found myself back to caravan.

We were taught how to tie Shesh- the headscarf typically worn by nomadic people here to save our self from sun and sand. That is how the Sahara deserts’ Bedouin and Toureg nomads wear it. The caravan was set in earnest and as each member had their own camel, we rode in single file- along with us were the camelsteers on foot, porters, guides and camels carrying our luggage. As we were moving more into the desert and the city with amenities and modern technology disappeared, we were laid back to thousands of years back in traditions of desert caravan. Though we were here for fun and add on excitement and exploring of desert with leisure and guides. Moreover we didn’t had to search oasis, we were all carrying mineral bottles of water and were not just having dates but ceareal bars too. With my nikicam (Nikon Camera) I was taking the various pics of deserts, its nomadic lifestyle and sand formations around. We were feeling like nomads our self with the kind of traditional trek that we had planned. I would love to say the view was panoramic and kamal was a lovely mate. The ride itself was fun, I was amazed as how did these guides know which way to take, and I mean it was all sand all over the place, all so same nothing different. Taking on the route that was following running River through Draa Valley we saw scenic scenery of diversity in desert. A desert is an ocean of sand with secluded Oasis, water and bit of greenery, being a rare site. The magnificent desert landscape, along the way we saw sand dunes up to 50 feet high, their curves and as we climbed the dunes at sunset we watched the light and color of sand change. There were these rock formations as if they have been made to grow from the ground, and these are the natural check points guiding people on their route. We came across village where people still lived in primitive ways going about to fill water from wells. We saw crumbling Kasbahs.

An Arabian adventure, riding on Camels like Berber nomads it was one great experience.

As the night fall and we reached the campsite traditional Bedouin tents were resurrected for us to rest and sleep while authentic and spicy Berber Tagine was prepared over an open fire. The meal had soup, couscous and mint tea additional to Tagine. After the meal we sat by bonfire and heard the distance drumming voice carried over by unstoppable wind. I took an opportunity to lay down in soft golden sand. It felt cool on the back, and as I lay gazing the sky lit with millions of stars, as sparkle has spread across the sky. It was very beautiful and romantic, I never know when I will able to see such a marvel. So completely different, because in city we don’t have time to look over to the vast sky nor can we see this beauty. Whatever were my views of this trek got all lost when we started but this night, the sky will be remembered life long. I was too happy , to feel so close to nature and moreover I was relaxing rather then just boozing or making fun. this was more calm and relaxing. The experience should be taken, it puts into perspective as to what values we are attaching to possessions rather then nature and people. The camel Kamal was better acquaintance; he bowed and sits even when I said him to do so. How we keep running for success and forget the values and people in the race. The trip had made some changes in us as when we went back.

The city, its vehicles and noise was all chaos. The hotel was like fun again with that swimming pool being the most favored place thereafter. Yet we loved the time in desert and it was an experience that you ought to take once in lifetime.

The Bushmen have offered an affluence of information for the branches of genetics as well as anthropology. Later a change was even witnessed in their traditional lifestyles. One wide lessons of African hereditary variety concluded in the year 2009 found that the San people were in the middle of the 5 populations with the uppermost calculated stage of hereditary assortment in the midst of the 121 dissimilar African populations which was being sampled. The San people can be well thought-out as the mainly basal branch of the phylogenetic tree that comprises of mostly all the numerous living humans; its difference of opinion swelling with numerous other human beings is the sincere familial situation that can increasingly be rebuild by means of DNA from living human beings.

San-Bushman

Around 4000 years ago, a group of people came together. They were basically called as Khoi Khoi. The Khoi-Khoi group of people came in contact with the much older hunting-gathering people group from South Africa. They were known as San, which means ‘food-gatheres’. A huge territory of the Southern Africa was been occupied by the Sans for nearly 50,000 years.  The Dutch colonist of the 17th century who had their control over the Cape of Good Hope had asked out the sans who lived in Boschveld, Boschjesmannen, which was located in the interior of the Cape.  The got their name as Biushman from the original residence. The Bushman has lived in South Africa for the longest time. They are considered to be one of the lasts remains of the Stone Age man who were later distributed all across the Central as well as Eastern and the Southern Africa.

Origin

The Sans bushmen have been living in the southern region of African for nearly 10,000 years. They are the itinerant group of people, who are supposed to the last generation of the stone-aged man. These people have been having temporary shelters over their head as they keep wandering. There occurs many times when they live in the caves or beneath the rocks. The first group of the European who were settled in the Southern region of Africa dates back to the year 1652 AD. The Europeans settled in the various areas of Africa were the Sans used to live. The Sans were been destroyed by the Europeans and were treated as animals by them. Bushmen is the name the Sans have got from the European. The European have also killed the Sans to a large extent. Around 200,000 of the Sans were killed by the Europeans in a phase of 200 years. The Sans were being sold by the European in the various markets as slaves and also the various circus which kept on traveling from one city to another.

Rock Art Work

The Europeans were the first to experience the rock art of the Southern Africa. The rock art are quite magnificent as well as beautiful. It was quite attractive and fascinated everyone whoever encounters it. It is believed that the rock art of the Southern Africa is nothing but the easy adolescent portrayal of Bushman life. These days the western culture is trying hard to find out the actual meaning of the numerous rock arts. The Europeans and also many of the African were surprised to see that the people of the older society were capable of creating such an intricate as well as complicated work of Art. To everyone’s surprise the art didn’t represent the day to day life of the primitive people but it passed on many message to the further generations. Many metaphors, symbols as well as religious marks were used the rock art of the Sans. The rock paintings which were known from the early times are as old as 27,000 year. The art work was found on Apollo 11, rock haven a committal stones.

Languages

The various languages that are being used by the sans are the part of the Khoisan group of languages. The languages used by the Khoekhoes and also the Sans are also part of the same group. A careful study carried out on the languages regarded them as one of the most complex languages in the world. The various unique sounds of click are the most fascinating part of the Sans languages. Many of the western civilizations are attracted to the Sans just because of the language they use. You can also witness few of the clicks in  Zulu as well as Xhosa and also the Siswati tribes.

Food

The Sans are ready to eat anything that is available to them at the moment they are hungry. The food they would love to select ranges from Zebra, antelope, wild hare, porcupine, Giraffe, insects, Lions, tortoise, snakes as well as flying ants. They also love to eat eggs, wild honey and also hyena. The meat of the various animals is either boiled or roasted on the fire before it is served. The Sans doesn’t believe in the wastage of food thus each and every item is been eaten.

Religion and Beliefs

The Sans has a belief that there are Supreme as well as the lesser gods. They also believe in the spirit of the dead and also the supernatural powers. As stated by the Sans of the Kalhari, the supreme god is related to their life and the increasing sun. They also feel that the lesser gods are responsible for the deaths as well as the illness. The shamans, have right of entry to the lesser gods who are responsible for the illness throughout the ceremony dance daze.

The San bushmen also shell out respect to the spirit of the dead. Nearly every San believed that in the lead death, the spirit went flipside to the grand god’s abode in the the heavens. The deceased prejudiced the life of the living. For instance when a medication man died, the Sans would be worried as to whether his strength may come back to haunt around the people and also create a danger to their life.

Birth as well as the death, the different genders, rain and also the weather was all supposed to have paranormal consequence, for instance people get hold of good and also the bad rain-bringing aptitude at the time of his birth and this aptitude is activated again when the person face his death.

San Bushmen do not encompass commencement ritual as observed in the other adjacent group of people. However, they do have formal procedure that may be apparent to be analogous to commencement rites for both the women as well as the men.

Marriage in the middle of the San Bushmen is a confidential small key occasion. It is considered as just a mere agreement among two individuals. Visitors are said to be requested to come only in outstanding cases. As a division of the marriage ceremony, the man provides the fat of the Elands’ heart to the parents of the girl. At a later on stage, the girl is massaged with Eland fat that the boy had got.
Life in the 21st Century:-

The San bushmen customary standard of living is supposed by a number of people as being prehistoric and out-of-date. They at present come across a variety of tribulations which also depend on their resident areas. Surrounded by the various region of South Africa as there are hard work to incorporate their crowd with the remaining modern developing societies they survive in. In South Africa, for instance, the Khomani are supposed to encompass the majority of their terrain privileges documented, while the Sans in Botswana were under duress dispossessed from the ‘Central Kalahari Game Reserve’ by the Botswana government to create way for locating the diamond mines in the year 2002. Lately, the Botswana court seized in good turn of the bushmen decision that they were illegitimately detached from their territory. The court additional lined that the bushmen have the right to make a decision at what time and how they want to connect the contemporary world.

The San Bushmen have been clever to stay alive their altered chance and the cruel circumstances of the Kalahari Desert in which they are at the present frequently concerted. There are organizations that look for to lend a hand to them talk to the abundant confronts they at present face, to name a few are the various health issues, ecological dares, land rights, job conception, language conservation, and education.