{"id":31749,"date":"2020-05-26T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T10:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/tribes-of-the-southwest\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:46:36","slug":"tribes-of-the-southwest","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/africa\/angola\/tribes-of-the-southwest","title":{"rendered":"Tribes of the southwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Authentic &amp; colorful tribes<\/h2>\n<p>For years they were cut off from the outside world by the Portuguese and then by the civil war. To this day, dozens of authentic tribes in southwestern Angola have been able to safeguard centuries-old traditions and customs.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Muila<\/strong> live in the lubango area and are recognizable by the beautiful clay hairstyles and exuberantly colourful beaded toes. An unforgettable experience is attending a <strong>fico,<\/strong>a traditional &#8216;rite de passsage&#8217; that forms the transition from girl to woman. In addition to the Muila, thousands of <strong>Khoisan<\/strong>, descendants of the Bushmen , also live in this special region.<\/p>\n<p>Further south, near the border of Namibia and the Cunener river, meet the <strong>Himba&#8217;s<\/strong>. Dressed in goat leather skirts and adorned with a wide-fanned head of hair, they smear themselves with otjize, a mixture of goat fat, herbs and ochre. Meet the <strong>Hakaona,<\/strong>recognizable by a heavy bun on the forehead, who live on livestock farming and recognize unmarried <strong>Dimba<\/strong>girls on the turf symbolizing virginity.<\/p>\n<p>The southwestern part of <a href=\"\/?continent_category=angola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Angola<\/strong><\/a> is also home to the <strong>Nguedelengo<\/strong>, which is distinguished by geisha-like hairstyles, and the nomadic <strong>Cubal<\/strong>,where women wrap a rope around the breastpart. Colourful tribes with their own identity, <em>Where the world can&#8217;t find you&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authentic &amp; colorful encounters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":28017,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[262],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-31749","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-angola","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/31749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/31749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233265,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/31749\/revisions\/233265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=31749"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=31749"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=31749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}