Voyez donc les endroits que j'ai visités depuis que je suis.
Thursday 29 May 2008
Sunday 25 May 2008
Saturday 24 May 2008
Lesotho
I only stayed one day in Lesotho but it truly was an interesting experience: meeting the locals, taking pictures of kids playing football while the girls were enjoying a game of netball, tasting the local beer, trying to understand what the healer was telling us and discovering San paintings.
Lesotho is the highest country in the world with its lowest point being at 1100 metres of altitude or so. The whole day was spent in a village near the border, meeting with the school staff, children, the sangoma (healer) and other locals.
Thanks very much to Gareth for taking us there and making this day a very special one, the climax of our Drakensberg experience.
On one of the school walls, instructions for pupils and teachers.
A classroom.
The school's deputy director and children singing the national anthem and dancing.
The pupils' lunch bowls.
A traditional house.
Claudia and Vanessa - Go, Québec, Go!
The village's sangoma, or healer. He usually gets inspiration and medical knowledge through ancestors who communicate with him in dreams. Then he mainly uses herbal medicines when possible, or sends patients to hospital when he is not able to help them. This is a very simplified description of his "job" but, as you can imagine, his role in the local community goes much further than simple medical assistance. We were lucky to be able to spend a long time chatting with him.
Souvenir picture of an exceptional day in Lesotho...
Lesotho is the highest country in the world with its lowest point being at 1100 metres of altitude or so. The whole day was spent in a village near the border, meeting with the school staff, children, the sangoma (healer) and other locals.
Thanks very much to Gareth for taking us there and making this day a very special one, the climax of our Drakensberg experience.
On one of the school walls, instructions for pupils and teachers.
A classroom.
The school's deputy director and children singing the national anthem and dancing.
The pupils' lunch bowls.
A traditional house.
Claudia and Vanessa - Go, Québec, Go!
The village's sangoma, or healer. He usually gets inspiration and medical knowledge through ancestors who communicate with him in dreams. Then he mainly uses herbal medicines when possible, or sends patients to hospital when he is not able to help them. This is a very simplified description of his "job" but, as you can imagine, his role in the local community goes much further than simple medical assistance. We were lucky to be able to spend a long time chatting with him.
Souvenir picture of an exceptional day in Lesotho...
Beautiful sunrise...
...still in the Drakensberg. Another glorious morning with colours you can only find in Africa.
Thursday 22 May 2008
The Drakensberg
This was the last adventurous part of my round-the-world trip. A week in various locations of the Drakensberg mountains, on the eastern border of Lesotho. It was incredibly beautiful ... and a memorable way to finish such a fantastic trip.
The following pictures aren't in the right order...But then, what is a "right order"? I ask you... Before hearing your answer, I let you look at the photos.
Sunrise on Inkosana Lodge, in Central Drakensberg.
Baboons doing their stuff, while I do mine.
Second sunrise on Inkosana Lodge, playing with the swimming pool.
Being a cat simply rocks.
Monkey!
Now, who's looking at whom?
Long on the top, short on the side... That's what happens when you sweat too much.
Yeah...Right...
The Amphiteatre, ainsi nommé car cela ressemble à... un amphitéâtre bien sûr!
On top of the amphitheatre, 3100 metres up in the transparent sky.
Tugela Falls, the 2nd highest in Africa, or the world, or the universe, I can't remember which.
The following pictures aren't in the right order...But then, what is a "right order"? I ask you... Before hearing your answer, I let you look at the photos.
Sunrise on Inkosana Lodge, in Central Drakensberg.
Baboons doing their stuff, while I do mine.
Second sunrise on Inkosana Lodge, playing with the swimming pool.
Being a cat simply rocks.
Monkey!
Now, who's looking at whom?
Long on the top, short on the side... That's what happens when you sweat too much.
Yeah...Right...
The Amphiteatre, ainsi nommé car cela ressemble à... un amphitéâtre bien sûr!
On top of the amphitheatre, 3100 metres up in the transparent sky.
Tugela Falls, the 2nd highest in Africa, or the world, or the universe, I can't remember which.
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