http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Lesotho en-us Sat, 12 Dec 09 06:34:37 +0000 Sat, 12 Dec 09 06:34:37 +0000 The Global Neighbor Project an outreach from Tacoma WA to Sekameng Lesotho Africa is planning a trip in February 2010 to revisit the community where we sponsor children and provide community development assistance through World Vision. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Maseru/blog-448204.html Day 31 Molumong Lesotho 29809We left the Sani Lodge at 0900 with our tour guide Michael on the tour with me there were 4 Dutch girls who were travelling together. We travelled though the roads of the Drakensburg Mountains to reach the Sani Pass and the Lesotho border pass we went in a 4X4 as its the only type of vehicle that could make it up there. As a gentlemen and somebody travelling http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Sani-Top/blog-446435.html Having visited the tourist information centre opposite the Basotho Hat in Kingsway in Maseru I was recommended by the lady there to go to Thaba Bosiu and to see the Royal Graves. She gave me directions to the market close to the Roman Catholic Cathedral where I would find the minibus taxi to Thaba Bosiu fortunately the service terminated there.The minibus trip cost M12 each way approx EUR 1.1 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Thaba-Bosiu/blog-443288.html Leaving JBay by coach 16 hours overnight crap I make a detour to Durban to fix my wide angle lens which I dropped onto tarmac trying to get a photo of a whale's tail at Mossel Bay... all v. annoying I decide to hire a car to travel up to the Drakensbergs and then east through KwaZuluNatal and Swaziland to Kruger Park so I collect Guppy named in accordance with the Chris and Tracey Park http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/blog-438265.html Day 85 Aliwal North Lesotho 31.8.09We left the death camp at around 7am and stopped in town for a few supplies before heading towards Lesotho. Across the border it was like a different world again reminiscent of east africa in as much as there were lots of huts and very basic buildings not to mention run down shacks that would still be housing people. We climbed higher and higher in our truck http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/blog-436699.html Hei igjenDette er da siste dagen var i St Lucia for vi reiser videre. De siste dagene har vi tilbragt pa de flotte strendene ut mot det Indiske hav eller ved bassenge pa hotellet. I gar tok vi turen ut til et sted som heter Cape Vidal en flott strand hvor kun 100 biler slippes inn pa samtidig sa vi ungikk den alt for store syden strand folelsen. Vi begynner a ligne litt mer pa de fastboende n http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Sani-Top/blog-367270.html In the centre of South Africa is the worldrsquos thirdsmallest but highest country Lesotho. Lesotho has 2.1 million people living in it. The population is largely farmers living in small rural communities their main crop maize. The Northern Drakensberg where I am staying is nearby the Lesotho border and my backpackers runs day trips across the border. So that was my adventure today.T http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Butha-Buthe/blog-361308.html I en forlnget weekend fra d. 1216. december var jeg i Lesotho med Anna svensk og AnneSofie dansk. Til jer som ikke gider sl op i et atlas er Lesotho er et selvstndigt land som ligger ca. 400 km syd for Pretoria. Det ligger midt inde i Sydafrika og er omkrnset hele vejen rundt. Det meste af landet ligger i bjergomrder og Lesotho deler bjerge med Drakensberg. Vi krte fredag efter http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Sani-Top/blog-358435.html Leaving Amakhala was difficult not least because we had to work out how to get everything back into the Land Rover. This task was made more difficult by a serious hangover induced by our final night party. I wonrsquot go into details but Chris fans should definitely get him checked for itches and scratches after he was taken in hand by an older lady. I think the scratches might have been sustai http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Maseru/blog-356671.html Monday 15th we ascended into Lesotho the mountain kingdom. Another day another country The driving was great because the scenery was amazing We took a shortcut on tiny dirt roads that didn't look like they could hold our truck that took us right up through the mountains. They are the same kinds of mountains as the rest of South Africa rocky interesting shapes Table Mountain style just bi http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/blog-356003.html Firstly I had better explain that we didnt actually go to Lesotho as we didnt have enough time but we were a stones throw away so I'd thought I would add itWe arrived at the Khotso Horse ranch at lunch time and were immediately awe insipired by the views.The ranch was in teh mountain near the town of Uunderberg in the Southern Drackensburg region. I beleive the ranch was approx 1500m above sea le http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Sani-Top/blog-347249.html Lumela wie man so schoen in Sesotho sagt Hallo in LesothoSprache So langsam fallen mir nicht mal mehr Ueberschriften ein da sich ja jetzt doch einiges wiederholt hier in meinem Blog...nochmal Afrika nochmal Lesotho...also langweile ich euch nicht lang mit alten Kamellen sondern gebe nur einen kurzen Ueberblick ueber die letzten 3 Wochen die ich eben in Lesotho verbracht habe. Obwohl http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Maseru/blog-341829.html Our journey started September 21 and ended October 2. The Global Neighbor Project Team of Tacoma WA Kathleen and Rick Olson Michelle Cox and Julie Nordlund led by Bob Bowen of World Vision left SEATAC on a Sunday afternoon and arrived in Lesotho on Monday morning. We flew Northwest Airlines Airbus KLM 747 and South African Airways turbo prop to reach our destination. We laid over in Am http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Maseru/blog-331691.html Why am I traveling to a tiny country surrounded by South Africa Why now Here's the deal It started when I was President of Tacoma 8 Rotary in 2005. Our club hosted a team of business persons on a study exchange from South Africa. They stayed in Tacoma for a week and my husband Rick and I hosted a team member. I worked at Point Defiance Zoological Society at the time and provided a behind http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Maseru/blog-322921.html Afrika die Zweite und nicht letzte...Nach aufregenden 2 Wochen in Botswana bin ich nun nach Lesotho bdquoweiter verschickt wordenldquo... Hier in Maseru ist ein weiterer Campus unserer Uni in dem gerade das erste Semester startet...Heit ein paar Leute aus KL und Botswana sind mit einem Kleintransporter 22 LeuteGepckUniMaterial 12 Stunden von Botswana quer durch Sdafrika nach Lesotho g http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Maseru/blog-318003.html Histoire d'un week end par temps d'hiver au Lesotho pour aller voir .... la neige. Et oui en hiver on peut trouver de la neige en Afrique du Sud et notamment au Lesotho pays situ en plein centre de l'Afrique du Sud. Pour la partie historique le Lesotho est la patrie des Basotho et des peuples sothotswana. Lors du grand trek des Voortrekkers sud africains blancs ceux ci envahirent le pa http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Butha-Buthe/blog-300599.html Lesotho is a gorgeous country Known as the Kingdom in the Sky because it is the highest country in the world measured from the lowest point if that makes any sense at all. Again very different from other places we've been to in Africa and even better that we were here for three nights at the same place yay no driving. The highlight here besides upgrading from our tent to a nice cab http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Maseru/blog-280991.html I've been back at school for a little over a week now but I haven't had time to update from my trip to Lesotho because this is cram time on campus papers and exams flying right and left computer lab full at all times of the day and night and everyone including me is busy all the time. Luckily before this madness started I got to spend a week in lovely Lesotho here is some background on t http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/blog-274105.html Amazing placeThe backpapers at the Drakensberg organised day tours to Lesotho The Kingdom in the Sky and as we were so close we decided to head over there.The roads up to Lesotho are very very bad and very very twisty. You wouldn't believe that we could get up there in a normal minibus on the way we passed Qwa Qwa to say this you have to use the click found in ZuluSotho languages repl http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Butha-Buthe/blog-272876.html The snow Blizzard started as soon as we left the Sani pass Police post in South Africa. It was chaos 7 4X4 vehicles in front of us had got stuck in the thick snow. There were vehicles behind us but we persevered after an exciting 3 hrs burning the clutch screeching tyres eventually we got to the top but ahead the gates were locked and there was no one to be seen. The blizzard grew worse and ther http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Lesotho/Sani-Top/blog-243134.html