An Old Culvert

Thursday, July 20, 2017

All the varied elements that constitute transport, roads, railways, vehicles such as cars, donkars and ox wagons make up an important part of the country’s heritage. It is for this reason that I intend having a little dip in order to show some elements of transport which were familiar only to those who today are in their 60s .

I begin with an oddity. And thereby hangs a tale. Sometime in the 1960s I was driving from Mochudi to Pilane and was puzzled to see a hole in the road. Being in a hurry I didn’t stop. On my return, however, I was curious, stopped and wondered why there was just the one hole.

So, I found a decent sized rock and smashed it down on the road surface and lo, a second hole immediately appeared.

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