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Extract from the Mokhotlong Travel Guides:
Perched on the banks of the Mokhotlong River,
MOKHOTLONG
, whose name means "place of the bald ibis" (although they are rarely seen these days), began life as a police post in 1905. Slowly, the post evolved into a trading centre for the Highlanders of the region, but remained cut off from the rest of Lesotho for years, with radio contact only established with Maseru in 1947. An airstrip was constructed in 1948 and a rudimentary road link built in the 1950s, but Mokhotlong continued to get the bulk of its supplies by pony from Natal, via Sani, for a long time afterwards. Even today it feels remote, with locals usually riding int...
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