In a quest to maintain and preserve culture, the Ovaherero people gathered at the Ombu Cultural Festival in the Otjozondjupa Region.

The Ombu Cultural Festival is a platform created for the Ovaherero people to celebrate their culture and heritage.

At the festival, they also showcased their skills, talents and other cultural practices, as some are dying out.

Founder of the Ombu Cultural Festival, Vetumbuavi Mungunda, said, "We have got between 80 and 100 participants that are participating in various categories of cultural arts and also cultural heritage as well. We have got two key attractions. One is a museum, a place where we preserve and store cultural arts effects, but we also store our history, and we also store our knowledge and practices. Then we have got the village itself; the village is like a living museum."

The village takes you through a journey of history as old as 150 years, showcasing the kind of building materials used and the structures built in the exact same way.

The Ovahimba people from the Kunene Region are amongst those who maintained their culture in the purest form.

"They have another type of tradition that is a little bit different; actually, it is the original tradition, and it's also very important to teach, as they are now doing here to teach us. Some of us have mixed up with other tribes and races and so on, so they keep up the original," said India Katjivena, a participant at the cultural festival.

The Miss Namibia team also graced the event.

The three-day festival marked the second edition of the festival.