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“Are your feet different sizes?” asks Nunke Kadimo, my San guide as she demonstrates how to make fire. “No,” I say, somewhat bemused. “Why?”
“Because your shoes are,” comes her smiling response. “Look at your tracks.”
Strangely enough, one of my shoes has felt too tight for a while but it takes me a moment to work out what is happening. Photographer Shaen Adey and I both recently bought new hiking shoes, identical, but for the fact that mine are a size bigger. Shaen howls with laughter at the muddle up. She had wondered why one of her shoes needed constant tightening.
It’s our first visit to the !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre, on the R27, an hour north of Cape Town, where it has established itself as a West Coast destination. Thanks to
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