Ameridaddy in post #3162 asked about the ramshackle structures the area in the previous Baobab picture. That land was usually planted in corn,maize, as they call it over there. The area was hard hit by drought and whoever was living, subsidence farming, there had left, I am not sure of the exact nature of the structures some sort of hut probably for living maybe storing grain or livestock, goats, shelter.
Below is another picture of the same general area the Baobab in the foreground is a "Bee tree" the pieces hanging from the limbs are hollowed out logs which are used as bee hives, the locals hoist them up into the tree branches, away from two or four legged predators, and lower them periodically to collect honey, beeswax, and so on.
As Ameridaddy called them "upside down trees", yes, they are known and look that way, and old African legend tells long ago a Baobab tree somehow annoyed a tribal God who pulled the tree up by its roots and shoved it back into the ground upside down. Branches and leaves underground, and roots in the air, they have been punished and look that way ever since.
Steve W
