The Kingdom in the Sky

Craving adventure this week, we started a new book of African Tales. Each story comes from a different country in Africa and is prefaced by facts about the country of origin.

Ferdy suggested that we learn ten facts about each country, find it on a map, look up favourite landmarks on Google Earth, then read the story.

First up was Namibia.

The boys were most intrigued that it houses the world's largest metiorite, the Hoba.

©Google Earth

We found some quirky videos about facts about Africa.

A day or so later it was Malawi, also known as the 'Warm Heart of Africa' (which gave me the excuse to have a boogie to the classic The Very Best's 'Warm Heart of Africa'; I must have lost the picture Ferdy took of this..), and finally the Kingdom in the Sky,  Lesotho, a small mountainous country surrounded totally by South Africa.

Ferdy's favourite story from our book was the one from Malawi about a boy called Makhosi who has to save his village with the help of a talking bull. On Friday, Ferdy wrote part of and dictated the rest of one of his own much loved tales from his audiobook, Nelson Mandela's Favourite African Folktales.

As retold, verbatim, by Ferdy

I was slightly stumped when Gil asked if we could go to Africa for our Friday outing, but Ferdy proposed we climb a mountain and imagine that we were in Lesotho.

So, not far away, we managed to find our very own kingdom in the sky. 

Bunster Hill: 1079 ft