:00:12
Anyone else would die of thirst
in a few days. In this arid desert...
:00:17
... that looks like a paradise,
there's no surface water.
:00:20
But the slender, graceful
Bushmen of the Kalahari...
:00:24
... live here contentedly and in complete
harmony with their environment.
:00:47
They have lived undisturbed for
20,000 years because they are...
:00:51
... the only people in the world who know
how to live without surface water.
:00:59
When ivory poachers in high-tech
vehicles intrude into this thirst-land...
:01:04
... to hunt elephant, they have to drag
reservoirs of water with them.
:01:09
And when the water runs low they have
to hightail it out of the Kalahari again.
:01:18
So the Bushmen work and play
in peaceful isolation unaware...
:01:22
... of the crowded, hectic
world outside their domain...
:01:25
... and even of the wars that are fought
on the very fringes of the Kalahari.
:01:32
Sometimes Xixo tells about the time
he looked for the end of the Earth...
:01:37
... and about the strange,
heavy people he met...
:01:40
... but it's difficult to describe
those who live outside the Kalahari.
:01:44
He always ends by saying the heavy
people know some magic...
:01:48
... that can make things move
and even fly, but they're not bright...
:01:53
... because they can't survive without
their magic contrivances.
:01:57
In the mornings, they like
to read the news.
:01:59
They can read that
the hyena has a new girlfriend...