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...
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