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Travel mystery #4

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It's really difficult to extract the cyanide from cassava. You have to ferment, drain, dry and then cook...  Sometimes you see the fermented, chopped pieces of cassava on plastic outside homesteads to dry, but in parts of Angola you see these roadside patches of drying cassava.  You get a real sense of the effort and industry that goes into cassava eating. OF course this raises another mystery. Who worked out this is how to extract cyanide from cassava.  Lots of these on the side of the road Angola   Hint
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Travel mystery #3

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  Vic falls, Zimbabwe First find the madness, then explain how, then hazard a guess why??? Top middle It's the Devil's pool and we met a couple who had been there. Will set you back $190 (lunch incl.)
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Travel Mystery #2

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  Caprivi, Namibia  Along Caprivi strip, place names such as Rundu, Divindu, Katima Mulilo,  Kongola, Oshikango...and then this odd sign Thanks for all comments: Fatty acid police? - Richard  Everyone knows that the bushmen had a secret source of Omega 3’s from the trout in a small river leading into the Okovango Delta (which explained their longevity). The bushmen that is, not the trout. And then the Europeans came and found this out, and put that sign-post up, which gave the game away. Then this new health fad caught on in Europe, and soon after that, in true Colonial style, the secret source was depleted. But the sign post remains as a simple reminder to never kill the trout that lays the golden omega. -- Stu No Latin for me, it’s all about watches. Like the island of misfit toys (or the clothing dumps in Patagonia) the Angolan government has been paid heaps of money to provide a place where all Omega brand time pieces can be deposited. Worth a visit… -- Pipp...
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Travel mystery #1

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Tirasberg,  Namibia  Eskom! -- Penny Prototype SKA (Square Kilometer Array)? -- Claire Maybe an old radio station???? Maybe a war relic???? -- Gillie Solar Well and a radio mast. 2 in one? -- Di A solar powered self heating water pump.  and shower for the King Kwa Namiboowah. -- Ivan Art like you see at Afrika Burn or maybe something homemade to improve cell phone/radio reception. On top of a water tank? OR Left-over scene element from the Mad Max movie that wad filmed in Namibia, the one with Charlize Theron. -- Doris & Bernd Everyone knows that the Bushmen invented cell phone masts hundreds of years ago, before even cell phones were invented! -- Stu I think it could be and old water tower which a creative, crazy man has used as a base for his sculpture and antennae for communicating with sentient life in outer space. -- Mary Anne That monstrosity is a windmill with storage tanks of yesteryears on the R13 between Aus and Helmeringhausen. -- Coennie Some sort of wate...
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