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 traditional huts by sachara
These huts were made of local natural materials like rock at the bottom and straw for the conical roofs. The huts formed a perfect harmony with the surrounding landscape.
And these round huts with their roofs are cool during the day and hopefully warm enough during the night. Leave a Comment
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 girls in the villages by sachara
These two nice girls accompanied me. They showed me the best tracks to climb and where to walk at the steep slope between the rocks.
After visiting the caves they brought us to a very special house in the upper part of the village. Leave a Comment
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 village in the mountains by sachara
There a woman asked us to sign the guestbook of the village. Leave a Comment
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 house of the medicine woman by sachara
She invited us in her house. She is a medicine woman for body and soul. She treated the illness and body-pains of the local people, but she also helped with mental problems and she had a very important spiritual role in the village.
The interior of the house, especially of the prayerplace, was very peaceful and serene. The atmosphere was enchanting, also caused by the special effect of the natural light. It gave us a very good feeling.
The woman sung some ritual prayers for us.
Because it was getting dark very soon, it was a pity, there was no time enough for a treatment of one of us. Leave a Comment
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 climbing to the caves by sachara
The kids of the villages accompanied us, showed the best path and helped us to climb. They showed us the small caves and dwellings in the rocks. They were not very interesting, but the view at the plain was wonderful and so was the story of the caves.
And this is the story to be told:
In these caves lived cannibals in former times. This people stretched a rope across the plain to notice when a passer- by appeared. And then they knew, there is someone for in the bowl.
And these cannibals were maybe the ancestors of most or some of the people in this village nowadays. Leave a Comment
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 house at the escarpment by sachara
The two girls asked us to climb to the highest house under the overhanging rock. This house had very clear nice terracotta colours. All the other dwellings in the village had natural, grey colours, so this house with its colours was striking.
The woman at the clothes-line beckoned us and welcomed us at her place.
The view from this place at the village and the plain was splendid. It felt like a magical place, so just before twilight. Leave a Comment
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 reaching a village by pony by sachara
Our destination was the village at the foot of an escarpment. Above the village are some caves. And there must be also some rockpaintings.
After such a long ride through the fields along narrow tracks, we had the feeling, that the village must be very isolated.
Just before we reached the village we saw a tarred road and a pickup coming from the other side. Leave a Comment
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 Lesotho Maluti by MikeAtSea
Be reminded that if you do get your hands on local currency, try and spend it in the country, since you will battle to exchange it back into anything else later; even in South Africa!! Leave a Comment
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 Lesotho hat is same shape =
asian origins ??? by kenHuocj
Ride a horse in the hills,
visit rug and handloom weavers.
Stoneware with amazing hues.
etc etc & etc
Other than travel trips,
taking part in National Presidential election of Junior Chamber of Commerce (JCI-jaycee)
I was not good enough to wear the TOP MAN's HAT
i.e. lost the JCI presidential elections ;-( Leave a Comment
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 King Moshoeshoe I (1786-1870),
founder of the Baso by kenHuocj
against a scenic backdrop of highest altitudes of South Africa, the Water project, diamonds and labour, possibly travellers and tourism will provide the Sustainable develpement , dignity and independnece for the Lesotho people
".....The arrival of the missionaries had far- reaching effects on the life of the people. Potatoes, 'wheat, fruit trees and domesti cats and pigs were introduced. Before long the missionaries had opened schools and printed books in the Sesotho language.
The French missionaries did not belong to any of the colonising white groups of southern Africa and were accepted as citizens of Moshoeshoe's kingdom. In fact, Eugene Casalls had a role similar to that of a Foreign Minister for the period 1837 - 55 while living in a mission at the foot of Thaba Bosiu . His knowledge of the outside world proved invaluable to Moshoeshoe during the period when white settlers began to threaten his kingdom. ......"
source : http://www.lesotho.gov.ls/goverview.htm
A move away from Industrialised rat race of grab grab quick quick or else......
People in Lesotho are people aware of their environment, but today's instant society, travellers and toursits alike, do not make adequate effort to learn more of the Country's citizens do not speak the language of our resident or hiome countries. Leave a Comment
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