On Sunday on the way back to Oshakati, we stopped in Outapi. Outapi is home to a giant baobab tree that was once used as a shelter during tribal wars. The women and children would climb down inside the huge tree (I guess baobab trees are normally hollow) and hide from the violence. After that the South Africans cut a huge “door” into the tree and the inside has been used as a post office, chapel and a prison, a coffee shop, and a gift shop of sorts. Now it is a heritage site and there are really neat campsites underneath the huge tree.
Me inside the hollow trunk of the Baobab.
René standing in the doorway.
I want one of these in my back yard! How long do they take to grow this big? ;)
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