Travel Agent Port Shepstone

After my trip to Lesotho, I now really know why it is called “The Mountain Kingdom”.

I really enjoyed this trip to Lesotho as it was the first time I had actually gone right into the heart of the Kingdom. I went on a Rotary weekend to deliver clothes to the “poorest of the poor” in a very rural part of the country. For this reason, I saw parts of Lesotho that I never thought I would ever see.

The roads are long and winding through spectacular scenery. We travelled through mountain, after mountain, after mountain, up one mountain and then down the next and up another one and down again and so it went on!! It was truly beautiful. Something that struck me the entire time I was there is how “house proud” these people are. Their homes are made of rocks and beautifully built with well kept gardens. I couldn’t stop admiring how pretty some of these very rural homes were.

It was winter and it was freezing! We are not used to the cold, coming from a coastal area that doesn’t have a “proper” winter. All the Basotho people that we saw wore blankets over their clothes. Sadly, some of the very poor people didn’t have many clothes under their blankets. There was snow on the ground in many of the places that we drove through, on the day of delivery. Once we left the main road and when we got into the more rural areas there was more snow than what we had expected. For us, it was a winter wonderland and it was very exciting. For those Basotho people, I can only imagine that they long for summer eagerly!

Our children had so much fun in the snow. Making snow men and having snow fights. Something they usually never get to do.

It snowed during the night on our last night there. On our very long drive back home, we saw some spectacular scenery with snow all around us. It felt as though we could have been in the Swiss Alps - it was so beautiful. We drove along very long and windy roads, sometimes with boulders in the middle that had fallen off the very high cliffs and through the clouds at some stages. It felt like we were on top of the world and like we were on top of the world being in such a beautiful place, yet so close to home!!

I still can’t believe that we have such a beautiful winter wonderland so close to home, yet we don’t visit it often. I have decided that I would like to visit Lesotho again soon and to see more of this very pretty little Kingdom right on our doorstep.

I have fallen in love with Lesotho!