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The most popular walk in the park is the Gorge walk. Talk to any South African who has been here and they will have almost certainly hiked the Gorge track. About a year later we worked with a South African in England and his reaction was “You’ve done the gorge walk! I can’t believe it!”…
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Being in Southern Africa we did however see lots of Baboons. Let me rephrase that we actually heard them first as they went from rubbish bin to rubbish bin, in the early hours of the morning, scavenging at whatever scraps were to be had. They left crap everywhere and they were still dining on the…
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On our first visit to South Africa in 1996, we had very briefly skirted the Drankesberg ranges and had promised ourselves that we would return some day. The Drakensberg is located mostly in South Africa and snakes down the central eastern side of South Africa, for about 1125 kilometres, and then teeing off to allow…
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The rest of our journey in Lesotho passed without incident as we passed the odd town, which appeared more western than those we had seen in the Malealea area, but still dusty and neglected and yet somehow thriving and functional! As it was Sunday a lot of the locals tend to dress in their best…
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That tricky river crossing was the final challenge and can you believe it wee stopped for lunch about ten minutes from there! We just wanted to get it over and done with! David & Clement had been unable to talk to each other as much because of David having to spend a fair amount of…
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The next morning we awoke just before daylight after an eventful night. Thunderstorms had followed us there and dumped rain on us just as we arrived the day before. They had cleared for a while but came back overnight and the heavy rain found its way through the opening in the hut that passed for…
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David & Clement talked incessantly amongst themselves in SeSotho. To us of course it was rabble of noise punctuated by frequent loud hearty African laughs. What they were talking about was anyone’s guess. Normally on these treks, one guide is enough for six people but as we and Olive and Petra had booked separately somehow…
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Somehow we made progress until we reached the river crossing about an hour in. In fact it wasn’t actually the river crossing that was the problem, it was the steep, narrow, rocky path that zig zaged down the side of a small gorge at an angle that would make you think twice about walking down…
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The Pony trek itself was something else. Now as corny as it sounds, I always get the dude horse. I once rode a horse that flatly refused to go anywhere, another time, a horse that would only go in one direction, home, which is fine at the end of a ride but is a bit…
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That night the local Basotho children’s choir performed for us. It was quite stirring stuff. They sung songs of peace and hopefulness with a great deal of emphasis on finding a solution for the poverty and a drug problem that was, surprisingly, becoming more prevalent amongst their youth. They were followed by the local band that…
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The main reason why we had come to Malealea was to go Pony trekking. Somehow though, Mick had not only talked us into taking an ensuite cabin rather than a lot cheaper Basotho hut but had also persuaded us to wait a day before going Pony trekking. I’m glad he did because that allowed us…
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We decided to celebrate our feeling of freedom at the Lodge bar. Well it was a sort of bar but more like a counter in a small cupboard. We managed to find a couple seats outside with some of the other fellow guests, the odd local ex pat, a few locals from Maseru (the capital, some two…
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Malealea Lodge is at the top of a hill right next to Malealea Village. The lodge itself is a collection of chalets, huts, a dorm and a bar/store dotted among Pine trees and areas of brown lawn. Set to one side away from the other buildings, stood a colonial style house that the old man…
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Malealea Lodge is set in the quaintly called Valley of Paradise that’s about 2200 metres high. To get to it, after travelling on what can only be described as the ‘road from hell’, 13 kilometres of potholes loose rock and shifting gravel, you have to travel through the “Gates of Paradise”. This is a pass…
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Our next destination was a place called Malealea Lodge located in a remote part of the South West of Lesotho. Malealea Lodge is known for it’s Pony and Walk treks amongst other things. We had managed to contact them from home not only to find out info but to ask about the security of entering…
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