Amazing Tales for Making Men Out of Boys
“is a word with more than one meaning. The most literal translation is something about “that hill looks like a little house”—and from some angles the steep-sided 300-foot-high bluff of rock that bears the name does suggest the outline of a Zulu hut. Sometimes it looks more like a weathered and rounded sphinx. Light and shade dress it in different colors as the sun passes across the sky. Little house, lion—in sunshine or in shadow—the hill is the central character in a story that hangs around it ...like smoke. Isandlwana dominates the landscape, catching the eye from miles off and holding the gaze on the long approach down a deeply rutted dirt road. As visitors draw close, passing through the gates of the reserve, they emerge onto a stage always set for drama. The battle seems very close.
It’s easy to overlook the memorial lying off to the left, just beyond the gates. Low to the ground, it’s the most discreet of the many erected around the site in the years since January 22, 1879.MoreLess
It’s easy to overlook the memorial lying off to the left, just beyond the gates. Low to the ground, it’s the most discreet of the many erected around the site in the years since January 22, 1879.MoreLess
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