Lesotho
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Established | 1966 |
Land area | 30,355 sq. km. |
Visitors each year | About 1,009,856 |
Head of State | Tom Thabane |
Area(s) Served | Lesotho |
Beautiful, culturally rich, safe, affordable and easily accessible from Durban and Johannesburg, mountainous Lesotho is a vastly underrated travel destination.This is essentially an alpine country, where villagers on horseback in multicolored balaclavas and blankets greet you round precipitous bends.
The hiking and trekking – often on a famed Basotho pony – is world class and the infrastructure of the three stunning national parks continues to improve. An astonishingly beautiful country, this ‘Mountain Kingdom’ needs to be seen to be believed.
Background: Lesotho was originally inhabited by local tribes of hunter-gatherers called the Khoisan. Later came the Bantu tribes and eventually the Sotho-Tswana peoples. Continue reading.
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