Big Fig

When we got to Manyana to look at the cliff paintings, we got a bonus.  After seeing the drawings, the guide got into our car and directed us to "Livingstone's Tree".  This giant fig tree was a big tree when Livingstone was a physician-missionary in this part of Africa in the mid-19th century.  It was big enough for him to practice medicine under this tree.

The nature of this fig, and there are several types in Botswana, is that it droops to the ground.  The limbs touching the ground send out roots.  This strengthens the tree, provides more water, and gives it a long life.

Here is what it now looks like underneath.

As you know there's lots of Scriptures about trees and roots, so I won't quote those now.  It is neat to see/ touch/stand under a tree where David Livingstone stood.  He had a heart committed to Jesus the Christ.  You can't do better than that.