What an exciting day it was here in Nqiningana today. The day started off hot hot hot, so hot that all of the local people spent the day sitting in the tiny bit of shade created by their houses, and did their best to stay cool. In the mid afternoon however the clouds began to move in. This is such a magical place, we are surrounded by mountains in every direction, in fact we are sitting at 3500 feet above sea level. The village sits in a very large valley in between the mountains which means that we can literally see the weather coming towards us. As we watched the rain fall in a neighbouring village we all prayed that the wind would change and blow the rain our way. As a group of us sat inside talking, braiding hair and cooking we heard tap tap tap on the tin roof. Just like that the sky opened up and the water fell to the Earth. They certainly don't get very much rain here but when they do get it it comes all at once! I have included a few photos here, you can see the rain falling in the distance, it is so beautiful. I also thought it was really funny that even the sheep took refuge from the rain ha ha, they stood there for 30 minutes.
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