Lesotho – Part 1

Day 1: A visit of hand craft workshop

Our first day in Lesotho was really short, we only had time to collect our rental car, pass through the border, do some food shopping for the week and discover the capital of the country, Maseru. We had the time as well to visit “Lesotho Design”, a hand craft workshop where women of a small village make weavings. This was really interesting to visit this workshop and gallery, we could learn the all process of Basotho weavings. We loved their work. Apparently, it can take them more than one month to realize a weaving! It was really impressive.

Day 2: A stressful road trip from Maseru to Semonkong

We had been told that the road between Maseru and Semonkong was difficult to drive on with a small car like we had rent. But we tried anyway to go to this place (lots of people told us it was a wonderful place, we wanted to see it!). Actually the road was really stressful and tiring, it was a real adventure to arrive to Semonkong without damaging our rental car: we drove 70 kms on an unsealed road under the snow. We took one hour more than the estimated time to arrive to our lodge. We were relieved to arrive to Semonkong Lodge without damages.

We spent the rest of the day walking around to discover the village and buy some stuffs agains the cold like pairs of gloves, coat for Maxime and a blanket for Delphine (Basotho people protect themselves against the cold and the wind with a blanket, their blanklet is part of their culture, it’s a real social symbol).