Cultural Village

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I wrote a quick post this morning to cover what we did last night. However, I didn't have time to write about our trip to the Cultural Village Friday afternoon. The Cultural Village is set up to provide people with a sense of traditional Setswana culture. Dan and a UB Motswana peer guide were chosen to be participants in a wedding ceremony. We had a chance to see how the ceremony was performed and the duties of man and wife that followed. We also had a chance to learn some Setswana games and eat some delicious food.

The wedding ceremony

On the night of the honeymoon (wedding night,) the grannies snoop outside the newlyweds' house.

One of the wife's duties in Setswana culture is spreading cow dung on the floor of the house to keep snakes away. This is when the American girls realized we were glad we hadn't volunteered to be the wife!

We had a chance to try our hands at molding with REAL clay from the river. I made a person.

These ladies were limber! They showed us all kinds of dances and sang songs for us. We even got to dance with them.

We were taken to a lookout point where you can get a great view of the areas around Gaborone.

This might have been the best meal of the trip to date. The white cornmeal mixture is really starting to grow on me and that bread was delicious!

It was really amazing to see how life goes on in a traditional Setswana village. The women were so friendly and really made us feel welcome, making the visit one of my favorite parts of our trip so far.