Celtic Rover
Our three days in Lesotho has been one of the highlights of all my overlanding trips so far. The mountain scenery is as good as any I have seen and constantly amazing hour after hour, roads cling to the sides of deep gorges and blue rivers and often run along the ridges of the mountains were the small settlements seem to concentrate. Although the population is sparse the people sport colourful blanket capes and oddly often white wellington boots and balaclavas as they pass walking or on horse or donkey back, very little other traffic is seen just wild and majestic country in the clouds above South Africa. We find lovely new roads, battle through rough old roads, and need to use first or second gear both up the hills and down the hills to avoid burning out the brakes on Nelson which get a bit over hot occasionally. There are great natural sights like the falls at Maletsunyane in the picture below and man made wonders like Katse Dam which we had a tour of including going inside it. However the overwhelming feeling we are left with is of a country of majestic enthralling beauty, which is still partly of the past, but disappearing slowly as access opens up bit by bit
Go while you still can ….
