Alright, first of all, Lesotho is not in South Africa, I know. It's its own country, but which is completely surrounded by South Africa, and I'm only including 'South Africa' in the title because I visited on the same trip! Here's
part one if you haven't seen that as well, to explain what my trip all entailed too. Right, details out the way, on with the actual post!
We started early for our departure from Drakensberg, as it's a long drive into Lesotho. It's known as the 'Kingdom in the Sky', as the whole region is very mountainous, so as you can perhaps imagine, there was some pretty impressive scenery throughout the drive! The land started to get drier though, and we left rolling green hills, in exchange for brown, rocky, dusty mountain ranges. This time of year is actually rainy season, hence the thunderstorms we'd experienced, but there's also an ongoing drought, compared to their usual levels of rainfall. We drove through South Africa for several hours, before reaching the border crossing, conveniently placed on a bridge, so the river serves as the border. It was an easy process, simply getting our passports stamped out and in for each country. The drive continued through Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, which actually started out as a police camp!
