The tour itinerary is as follow"
We all meet at Rebele Game farm just outside the lovely town of Clarens in the Eastern Freestate in South Africa. After breakfast the next morning we will leave for the border post at Caledonspoort. From here we will travel to Rhamabanta Lodge where we will stay for 2 nights. We visit the Maletsuyane water fall which is the highest free falling water fall in Southern Africa at a drop of 196 meters. The morning of the 16th we will travel to the Lodge at Malealea and on our way stop at the Botselo waterfall.
At Malealea the locals will treat us with their local choir and band with self made instruments before we move on to have dinner in the dinning room where the fire place is lit to set a very relaxed atmosphere. The morning of the 17th we will leave for Maseru tl exit Lesotho and the tour will end in Clarens with lunch together as
a group.The tour cost is R2100 p/p sharing and includes:
Four nights stay in Lodges
Four breakfasts and dinners
Qualified Tour guides
Two way radio for each vehicle
Vehicle recovery if necessary
and off course good company
A non-refundable deposito off R1050 will ensure your place. Please contact us for payment option and banking details
We do have a vehicle hire service through a third company.
E-mail Marieta at marieta@maranata-toere.co.za or phone +27835441182 for more details
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LESOTHO
Lesotho is a small country, rugged mountainous. 85% of Lesotho is mountainous area. It is the only country in the world with all its territory above 1400 metres - the highest low point of any nation on Earth. Due to this, Lesotho is often referred to as The Kingdom in the Sky, The Roof of Africa, or The Switzerland of Africa. At 3482m, Thabana-Ntlenyana ("Beautiful Little Mountain"), in Lesotho's Maluti Mountain Range, is the highest peak in Southern Africa.
Nine hundred and nine kilometres (909km) of boundary mark Lesotho off from its only and much larger neighbour, South-Africa. In other words, Lesotho has no coast line. The country is only 30 355 sq km in size.
Basutoland was Lesotho's pre-independence name. Independence from Britain, and the name of Lesotho, came officially on 4 October 1966. The country became a constitutional monarchy with an elected bicameral parliament consisting of a 60-seat National Assembly and a 33-seat Senate.
Lesotho is the only constitutional monarchy in Africa
From 1833 when they arrived, missionaries have played a key role in the provision of education in Lesotho. They introduced formal institutions where instruction was given in classrooms as we know them. Primary education (between 5 and 12 years of age) is compulsory in Lesotho, but some young Basotho, especially in rural areas, still do not attend school. Nevertheless, about 97% of Basotho children are enrolled. Most schools are run either by the church or by a Christian organisation, under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. Among educational institutions there are also the National University, the Teacher Training College, the Institute of technology (Fokothi) and the Agricultural College (Temong). Lesotho has a literacy rate of 91 percent, one of the highest in Africa. Lesotho is one of the rare countries where more girls go to school than boys.
The national dress for Lesotho is the Basotho blanket and the mokorotlo.
Maize and sorghum is the basis of most Basotho meals. Mutton stew and stiff porridge and also corn on the cob is very popular and made by street vendors.
Alcohol is freely available and cheap. Most of the canned and bottled beer is made under license by South African Breweries. Alcohol abuse is a problem in Lesotho.
Lesotho is famous for its mohair and woolen products like jerseys, rugs and shawls. You will also find craft centres in many settlements. Basothos also do a great deal of grasswork like the traditional conical Basotho hat.
Lesotho is a difficult country to travel in. There is only one train station which is in the capital of Maseru and a total of 26 km of railway line in the entire country. The bus network is well developed but crowded, dirty, noisy and lively. Minibus Taxi’s is a fast and dangerous alternative transport to busses.
There is 24 airports in Lesotho. Only 4 of them has tarred landing strips. Almost all the airstrips is little more than a level terrace cut from the hillside. Due to the unpredictable weather, flights are frequently delayed. So, the password is: “Wait and patience”.
Traveling by road can be challenging. In most areas a 4 x 4 vehicle is needed and taking extra fuel is a must.
Lesotho is one of the poorest countries in the world. They have hardly no export products. The biggest export product is water to South Africa. South Africa funded the Katze Dam project from where water is pump via tunnels to the Vaal River which supplies water to the greater Gauteng.
Lesotho has long been known as a source of diamonds, mainly from alluvial deposits. Production, however, has never been a big part of the economy and has only contributed little to Lesotho's gross domestic product (GDP).In 1967 Mrs Ernestine Ramaboa, a Mosotho woman, found a mountain diamond that weighed 601 carats. It turned out to be the eleventh largest diamond ever found in the world. It was sold, and subsequently cut into 18 finished diamonds. The third largest among them was set into the engagement ring that Aristotle Onassis gave to Jacqueline Kennedy. This diamond mine, Letseng-La-Terai, is the highest diamond mine in the world at 3200m.
Apart from Lesotho’s beautiful mountains and general nature, there is a quite a few interesting sights to visit.
Lesotho had the Lesothosaurus, and today the country has plenty of dino footprints to show off.
It is alleged that on 16 September 1995 a UFO crashed in Lesotho and that there was a subsequent cover-up.
Central Lesotho boasts "the highest free drop waterfall in southern Africa, the Maletsunyane Falls near Semonkong, meaning 'Place of Smoke', which thunders from a height of 624ft (192m)."
The Molimo Nthuse Pass is so high up and so scary that Basotho named it God Help Me Pass..
Lesotho has the highest pub in Africa (probably in the world). It is the Sani Top Chalet (2,874m).
The Spiral Aloë (Aloë Polyphylla) is indigenous only to Lesotho and does not naturally grow anywhere else.
anataDue to, to much cancellations this trip was cancelled
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