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Submitted by DrewParsons on Tuesday, 25 November 2008 Page Views: 14043
Rock ArtSite Name: The White Lady GroupCountry: Namibia
NOTE: This site is 11.705 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Uis
Latitude: 21.11068S Longitude: 14.662650E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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KaiHofmann visited on 1st Oct 2005 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 3 great site at brandberg, with hundreds of paintings.
DrewParsons have visited here
In February 2005 when I visited the site there was a new sandy, corrugated track from near Uis to the site entrance where official guides wait to take people on the 45 minute walk to the first set of paintings at the "Maack Shelter" an overhanging rock face which is named after the first European to see them (a German explorer - in 1918). The temperature on our walk was 38 degrees centigrade making for a hot hike. There had been no other visitors in the three days before our arrival and apart from a French couple who decided not to walk to the paintings in view of the heat there had been no one else there that day either, so the eight ragged local guides had seen no work for several days.
The White Lady is an misnomer as the white figure herding animals together with other figures who are all in darker shades is now realised from closer inspection of his bodily appendages to be male and most probably a shaman!! My photo of the shaman did not come out well but I have included several photos of the surrounding art. Another twenty minutes hike further up the valley is a second set of rock paintings in a better state of preservation than those by the White Lady, presumably as fewer tourists make the effort to go up to them. My photos are a selection from both sites plus the route there. In warm weather be sure to take plenty of water for the walk.
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