We´re not long back from a wonderful week away in Lesotho, where we went deep into the beautiful Drakensburg mountains. What a lovely adventure 4 of us (our friends from Cisnecito) have had. We squashed into a little 1.4l VW Citi; the original VW which is still manufactured here, crammed with luggage, tent, sleeping bags and mega picnic, and off we drove for 14 hours to Semonkong!
Yachties own and run Semonkong Lodge at 2500m high, which is where we stayed when we were not pony-trekking through the mountains and canyons for 3 days The pony-trek was fab and tough-going - we went where not even 4 wheel drives can go, stayed in tiny villages with the locals in their traditional round huts. The Lesotho ponies are tough and amazingly adapted as they carefully pick their way through rocky, narrow, steep mountain passes, tracks and rivers as we climbed to nearly 3000m! There were a few acting bums & legs after those 3 days!
We also did the Guinness Book of Records highest commercial abseil in the world - 204m down the side of the great Maletsunyane Falls!! Wow!!!!
The scenary and views up there are gorgeous. Life is as it was hundreds of years ago in alot of the villages. Farming is the main source of income with big and small flocks of sheep and goats everywhere, always attended by shepards. Fields are ploughed by Oxen which they rear. Lesotho exports alot of Angora Goat wool for Mohair.
The traditional dress up the mountains consists of big blankets wrapped around you and also a balaclava as the wind can really bite. Most people travel by pony or by foot with kids walking through the mountains for 1 hours in bare feet every day to get to school.
Em xx
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