Category Archives: Lesotho

Surrounded completely by South Africa, Lesotho is a tiny kingdom (30,355 square km) set high in the sky. It lies above the tree line, its landscape scrubby and barren but striking and beautiful, its lowest point higher than that of any other nation. Its people, all 2.1 million of them, are hardy and hard-working. Life in Lesotho in 2009 is very much like it was 100 years ago. The majority of people live in basic rondavels, circular houses made of …

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