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We started our second day with a delicious breakfast prepared by Olinda, the mother of our friend Una. Coffee and orange juice were accompanied by homemade bread prepared with many spices. When bread is smeared with butter, cream cheese and homemade jam berries of both local and other fruit: the rubharb. We also ate crepes, or “pancakes crisis” as they call it in Iceland. This is because they are made with leftovers from the preparation of porridge, which is a typical breakfast food in times of crisis.

After breakfast we take a walk around the farm, we approach the horses has Olinda. She trains, and presents exhibitions and competitions. In total there were 29 horses of all ages, including three of them born just a few months earlier in the spring.

Horses are very curious and approached us as we walked parallel to them, allowing acariciasemos. It was her way of greeting and welcome us to Iceland. Also arrived just in time to witness the whole process of courtship and romance that took place between a pair of horses on the farm.

Icelandic horses are different horses from around the world. They are slightly smaller and have lots of hair on the head. These horses have a lot of will and energy, but, nevertheless, also have a very sweet temperament. They are horses with a lot of resistance and have five different ways of walking or jogging. One of these is very stable trot, the rider barely seen the horse’s movement when performing this type of jogging. Read the rest of this entry »

The various tribes in the world that has managed to remain unaffected by the destruction of civilization valuable deposits environmentally friendly lifestyle. These earth-friendly cultures are as interesting as the intricacies of the universe itself.

There is more to be gained cultural tourism if approached with the level of sensitivity that can be called responsible tourism.

In the last century, cultural tourism or tribe is often motivated by curiosity and an element of voyeurism that cannot appreciate the lifestyle to the land of the tribe. There is a sense of superiority and assistance was decided not to “barbaric savages” themselves. Others feel the urgent need to civilize the “savages” or placing them in the fold of religion. So, for whatever reason, there is an urgent need to intervene in the lives of indigenous peoples to make them better.

Fortunately, in recent decades this trend has been defeated by a healthy attitude marked by interest in a sincere and responsible attitude, characterized by respect and appreciation for the subject. A search for understanding has been taking tourists to remote corners of Africa, America and Asia to find information about alternative ways of living. Anthropology studies and documentary television has sparked growing interest in cultural tourism, more driven by tourism companies and state governments to see new economic opportunities in their backyard. Celebrities contribute their mite to bring a new place for the world’s attention either through the adoption of children or to visit this distant land. Cultural tourism has definitely come, even growing by leaps and bounds. How does this affect his own tribe, anyway?

In the northwestern region of Namibia, the Himba tribe lives. They live in the desert Kaokoland and have done since time immemorial. The Himba women are decorated with a large amount of jewelry and elaborate braids, a lot of pride in their femininity. Rub their bodies with a mixture of ocher, butter and herbs to give your skin translucent perfection. The Himba live in the fruit of the earth in isolation until tourism fell backwards beautiful. With the best intentions, that the candy to the kids and the liquor men, besides a large number of processed foods everywhere. Now that Western modernization has swept the young Himba in it, while only cling to old traditions.