Landing Strip in the Malouti Mountains Landing Strip in the Malouti Mountains

Landing Strip in the Malouti Mountains



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Basotho  Flag Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the UK in 1966. King MOSHOESHOE was exiled in 1990, but returned to Lesotho in 1992 and reinstated in 1995. Constitutional government was restored in 1993 after 23 years of militar... [read more]
Blog: Clinics, Sacrifical Goats and Hail
Date: June 29th 2006

I had to look up to see the tops of the peaks and canyon walls as the six-seater sesna bumped and bounded its way through the turbulent air in the gorges running through the Malouti mountain range. The terrain is very dramatic and exposed not altogether dissimilar from pictures I have seen of the mid-west: Grand Canyon, Brice and Zion. While the mountainous setting was surely a contrast to the Sou ... read more




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If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels. They express, however inarticulately, an understanding of what life might be about, outside of the constraints of work and of the struggle for survival. Yet rarely are they considered to present philosophical problems - that is issues requiring thought beyond the practical. We are inundated with advice on where to travel to, but we hear little of why and how we should go, even though the art of travel seems so na... full info
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