|Government||Parliamentary constitutional monarchy|
|Currency||loti (LSL); South African rand (ZAR)| |Area||total:
30,355 km2 water: 0 km2 land: 30,355 km2 |Population||2,022,331
(July 2006 est.)| |Language||Sesotho (southern Sotho)
(official), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa|
|Religion||Christian 80%, indigenous beliefs 20%| |Time
Zone||UTC +2| Lesotho  is a country in Southern Africa. Known as
the Kingdom in the Sky because of its lofty altitude — it has
the highest lowest point of any country in the world (1400m) and
is the only country to be entirely above 1000m! Lesotho is
totally surrounded by South Africa and is a fantastic adventure
holiday destination. Originally, the Sotho-Tswana people lived
in what is now Free State in neighbouring South Africa. They
were a farming people, and when the Zulus started attacking
villages and the Voortrekkers started encroaching on their land,
they fled up into the Lesotho mountains. Here, continuous
attacks from the Zulus forced local tribes to join together for
prot