Lesoto - Semonkong Lodge

That is the place we have been:

 

http://www.placeofsmoke.co.ls/

 

who ever wants to have a great holiday, that is the place. Together with Chris and Julie from Cisnecito we rented a car and drove the 13 hours to Semonkong, the place of smoke. The road trip alone was an amazing experience. It lead us threw the Drakensberge north of Durban with one stopover in the Champagne Valley.

The last three hours of the trip is on a mountain gravel road…better to have a 4 wheel drive, but our VW Golf I (what they are still building in South Africa) did a good job.

 

A bit exhausted but happy because of the amazing surroundings and the friendly people, we checked in to the Semonkong Lodge what is owned by the lovely people and Yachties Jonathan & Armelle.  The first day we made a hike to the Maletsunyane falls, a 200 m deep waterfall. After hiking up and down the canyon to the foot of the waterfall in around 2300 m altitude our muscles were burning and the sailors legs were tired and needed a rest. So we decided to make a horse back trip for the next three days.

 

Up and down the mountains on a horse back sounds quite relaxing but on these little passes, where an average person gets problems by foot, it was an exhilarating  trip what needed every minute our full attention.

 

After 5 hours riding on the first day we were happy to get into our little Lesotho Hut and had a rest for the night.

 

Two more days of riding threw the amazing and beautiful mountains of the little Kingdom gave us a sore butt but we had an unforgettable time in a country were the horseback is the normal way to get from one village to the other and cars are banned because the roads are hiking trails what are not accessible for cars.

 

Being back in the Semonkong Lodge we still had not enough adrenalin rushes in the steep mountains so we decided to do the longest abseil in the world, what are 204 m down a rock wall…….

 

Axel