OK.... I was expecting tons of feedback, but I got gnuts. No problem, may be the first message wasn't that good. Or may be I'll need a little bit more patience.So our first paragraph will be about a wonderful site in eastern Uganda, on the road to Kenya. About 3 hours from Kampala, the Uganda capital city, you will find a small town, or is it a big village, called Kumi. From there, after less than one hour drive (4 wheel drive of course) you'll reach a place called Nyero Rocks. Nyero Rocks is both beautiful and mystical place, let me tell you why.
The only sight of those rocks is quite amazing: they are kind of round shape, of height from 5 to 8 meters. They are usually two, one on top of another one, and they constitute a kind of vertebra long of 1 km. In between the two rocks, in the empty space, some people long time ago decided to set their abode. They were like 5 meters above the ground, so they were safe from any wild animals. Today, there is no more wild animals, despite the fact that the landscape is wild Savannah. This is due to a war that took place some decades ago (80's), and like any common sensed human being, wild animals hate wars and escape when they can afford it.
What is surprising is that according to some paints those people did on the caves' wall, it seems that one of their major fear was a huge crocodile. But today, there is not even a river. The place is so dry.
This is the crocodile I was talking about. Another amazing fact is that: we don't know who did those paints and we don't know what material they used to do them. Some American scholars who studied the site in the 70's estimated that the paints were made about 500 years ago. Quite a long time... I have my self sent some samples to the French guy who discovered Lucy, but no response yet.Another interesting thing is that there is a family staying there, in order to keep safe the site and especially the grinning stone that the first people there where using. This family is so friendly, they even can allow you to stay there for the night. Believe it or not you could make wonderful rave parties th
ere, if there was power!!!! Seriously speaking, take a tent, some firewood, a goat, some drinks and some friends and enjoy one of the most mystical nights in your life.So far, my favourite paint is the one attached; it represents the sun. Some sun rays look like snake, some others like ladder (the ancestor of snake and ladder game, dunno?). What is so curious, is that I have ever seen documentaries where the sun was also drawn with ladders in South Africa. Is it a clue of the unknown origin of
Nyero first dwellers.What I have learnt from the caretaker is the way the were drawing the sun. They simply tied with a rope their right and left index fingers. One finger stands in the middle of the sun, the second turns around the first (still tied with the rope) in order to draw a near perfect circle. Once the first circle is done, they increase the length of the rope in order to draw the second circle.
That is it, folks. This is my first paragraph of a huge book, because for sure Uganda has so much to say to the World. Have a good day and take
care.
This is one entrance of Nyero caves.
