A young cattle herder near Moliboeas, Leribe District, Lesotho.
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Please don't call it the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam. Gariep is Khoekhoe for "river", the original name of the Orange River; the name changed after the end of apartheid. It is the largest storage dam in South Africa.
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On a bitterly cold winter day in Lesotho, I saw this horserider, an elderly man on a striking white steed, riding upwards to the 10,000 foot high Lisiu Mafika Pass. There was quite a bit of snow and ice along the southward-facing sides of the road and especially at the top of the pass. Lesotho is a mountain country and outside the tropics. In July, it can get very cold indeed, with nights down to -10C not uncommon in the highlands.
The horse-rider stopped and posed for a photo happily, but he seemed to speak no English and my Sesotho is limited to "Hello!", "How are you?" and the like.
From here, I drove another 60 km to the Katse Dam, the goal of that day's journey, and grabbed some lunch in a little pub around there. Three hours later, I passed the man again as I returned, with the temperatures starting to drop rapidly in the late afternoon; by this stage on the other side of the pass, still riding on.
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On a bitterly cold winter day in Lesotho, I saw this horserider, an elderly man on a striking white steed, riding upwards to the 10,000 foot high Lisiu Mafika Pass. There was quite a bit of snow and ice along the southward-facing sides of the road and especially at the top of the pass. Lesotho is a mountain country and outside the tropics. In July, it can get very cold indeed, with nights down to -10C not uncommon in the highlands.
The horse-rider stopped and posed for a photo happily, but he seemed to speak no English and my Sesotho is limited to "Hello!", "How are you?" and the like.
From here, I drove another 60 km to the Katse Dam, the goal of that day's journey, and grabbed some lunch in a little pub around there. Three hours later, I passed the man again as I returned, with the temperatures starting to drop rapidly in the late afternoon; by this stage on the other side of the pass, still riding on.
Tags: Outdoor africa afternoon candid horse horse rider lesotho rural southern africa winter лесото 下午 乡 乡村 偷拍 冬天 南非 吗 莱索托 非洲 马 骑
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Lesotho's "Main Road North" runs through the village of Ha Morameng in the north west of the country. Well tarmacked but narrow, this is one of the southern African mountain kingdom's main roads. The trees are bare in July midwinter.
At around 1700m above sea-level, this area in the Leribe District is in Lesotho's lowlands, and the mountains in the distance are relatively "low" too, as evidenced by the lack of snow cover.
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