Country Info
- Maseru
- Capital
- Loti (LSL)
- Currency
- 2,177,062
- Population
- LS
- Country Code
Lesotho Slideshow
Top Hotels in Lesotho
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Lesotho Sun Hotel Maseru
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Lancer's Inn Maseru
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Sani Top Chalet Sani Pass
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Lesotho
Travel Blogs from Lesotho
Lesotho
This is a top pick! ... , sweets or food... Tomorrow, we will traverse the little country and go via Sani Pass... a long day ahead of us. Corinne 7 déc Lesotho Nous voulions enseigner dans ce pays il y a 25 ans mais il s'est avéré que nous avons obtenu un contrat au Zimbabwe; ...
The Top of the Magnificent Amphitheratre
This is a top pick! ... to the Mont Aux Source that was 5 km away. This was the highest point in South African and the border with Lesotho. I'd forgotten the hard boiled egg and cheese for lunch and managed to escape lightly although a do maintain that hiking is a team ...
out of this world
This is a top pick! ... the dark of night to meet the stars. The stars - no, I wont even try, just close your eyes and imagine........ Ah, Lesotho, to think I never even knew, could have easily missed, this wild and romantic encounter. But I found myself there, by fluke or by ...
Ginger beer and the magnificent Drakensbegs
This is a top pick! ... Backpackers where from the front lawn we got a fantastic view of the steep cliffs of the Drakensbergs as they stretched up to Lesotho. The cliffs went on for miles and miles. After settling in we went out for a drive to check out the Amphitheatre, a ...
Week Four - Wild Coast, Lesotho and Durban
This is a top pick! ... to Sani Top Chalets. Expected journey time 8 hours. Border crossing shuts at 4pm hence early start. Passed through many Lesotho village with friendly waving locals. Three quarters of the way to Sani over mountains exceeding 3000 metres we came across ...
The Hills are Alive
This is a top pick! ... budget allows. Am I being rude when I leave some of the hefty mound of papa on my plate each evening?? * Wondering when Lesotho will be strong enough to refuse conditions set by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in return for their aid - ...
Progress Report
This is a top pick! ... by blowing part of the roof off the orphanage. - The World Food Program has not renewed its contract with the Government of Lesotho for this district, meaning new sources of dried foodstuffs must be solicited. - Hilda has been scheduled for surgery in a ...
On Top of the World
This is a top pick! ... a doctor, or to register their children for schooling. One needn’t wonder why “water” is one of Lesotho’s main resources - the rivers flow abundantly through the remote and rugged countryside. I recently spent a very relaxing day ...
Mountain Kingdom
This is a top pick! We next drove on mostly gravel and dirt roads for about five hours to what could be call the middled of know where, Semonkong! But it was the place of The mighty Maletsunyane Falls, one of the highest single dropping waterfalls in Africa, creates a haze ...
Celebrating Christmas with the Children
This is a top pick! ... ; trip to South Africa to purchase Christmas gifts for the orphans became too onerous, so I decided to make do with what Lesotho had to offer. While North American children dream of every toy imaginable for Christmas, the tradition here is for children to ...
Just Clowning Around
This is a top pick! ... by the lavish luncheon spread for the participating agencies. The government provides no financial support for Rachel’s or any of Lesotho’s orphanages, yet how many children could have feasted on just that one meal. * When life seems to be ...
Can It Get Any Worse?
This is a top pick! ... was fortunate to sit in on a home-based care workshop, facilitated by Peggy from Canada and Mathabo from the University of Lesotho. At the time, I was extremely impressed with the support group women who were so unselfishly caring for the sick (mostly ...
Lesotho
This is a top pick! Photos of Sani Pass Lesotho Day trip arranged by http://www.sanilodge.co.za/da/ ...
Out in the Mountains
This is a top pick! ... the Teacher, and picture of the Pre-School children) 2. Local museum in a traditional hut where you can see plenty of Lesotho herbs and plants. 3.Village walk and garden project Children from the village take you on a walk to their homes and places ...
Hilda's or Rachel's?
This is a top pick! Maputsoe might best be described as a town of drunkenness, drug dealing, and an active sex trade. Prime location for an orphanage, don’t you think? Fortunately, Rachel’s Children Home is several km out of town, and I have never felt at all ...
Katse Dam
This is a top pick! ... The World Bank arranged for a treaty between the then-Apartheid government of South Africa and its much smaller neighbor, Lesotho, allowing execution of the project to proceed. Water delivery officially began on 22 January 1998. The dam currently ...
Aid for AIDS
This is a top pick! While Canada, along with much of the world grapples with a potential H1N1 pandemic, Lesotho struggles with the continuing dilemma of AIDS. It affects the entire nation. The thousands of annual deaths are just a reflection of those left behind - the HIV ...
Monk's Cowl - The Drakensberg
This is a top pick! We moved to the famous mountains of the "Drakensberg" and stopped at Monks Cowl. Taking its name from the peak between the towering Champagne Castle and Cathkin Mountains, which is part of Drakensberg Park World Heritage site. Breathtaking ...
Lame in Lesotho
This is a top pick! ... noticed my right ankle was the size of a grapefruit. Oh yes, just as I was crossing the border from South Africa into Lesotho, I managed to step into a pothole in the road. My seventeen kilo backpack (who needs all that stuff anyway?) pulled me off ...
An African Adventure
This is a top pick! ... possibilities made it even more alluring. When my overnight flight to Johannesburg arrived too late to catch the noon flight to Lesotho, I decided to catch a bus. After all, it’s always good to be gradually introduced to ones new surroundings. At ...
The mountain kingdom
We entered the final new county of the trip, the tiny mountainous country called Lesotho. It felt like we had stepped straight back into Kenya. The people were poor, living off the land in huts. The scenery was spectacular. There we went on a pony trek in ...
Speaking Sesotho to the Basotho of Lesotho
... Drackensberg (dutch for “Dragon Mountains”) form an impenetrable wall encircling the land-locked, highland nation of Lesotho. It is claimed that childhood vacations to the area provided the inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Misty ...
In a sea of mountains
... over the 'Roof of Africa' - Lesotho's highest, most mointainous area, which means extremely high and extremely mountainous, seeing as though Lesotho's lowest point is above 1000m (the highest low point of any country in the world!), and is jam-packed with ...
Pony trekking
... most frightened people had been the guides, who probably had never seen such a large group of inexperienced riders. Even here in Lesotho there were helmets available although it was not obligatory to wear them. Everyone seemed to enjoy the ride and the ...
Lesotho land reclamation project
... by a man called Mr. Musi and is now carried on by his widow and son, who was our guide at the donga. Lesotho has a major problem with erosion. Because the Basotho have had to plant on mountainous terrain, erosion has carried away much of the ...
Sani Pass
... top of the Drakensburg mountains in Lesotho. Lesotho is a country in the mountains that is inside of South Africa. The people in Lesotho wear blankets due to teh extreme winds and temperatures. At the top of the pass there is a tiny border patrol as well ...
Drakensberg and the mountain country of Lesotho
... towards the Drakensberg. Unmissable! Next day was Sani Pass day. Sani Pass is a route that connects Kwazulu-Natal and Lesotho. It is a notoriously dangerous road, which requires the use of a 4x4 vehicle and above average driving experience. While ...
Lesotho
... . People like it. I don't know if I will get it done another time but it is fun right now. Some observations...in Lesotho, no restaurant can make good French fries. This is a common discussion and annoyance amongst us here. In Ghana, they know how to ...
