Lesotho – in 5 photos

A journey across the Kingdom in the Sky

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Lesotho – in 5 photos

Dear NE-One

On the escarpment of the rugged Drakensberg mountains, and completely enveloped by South Africa, there is a country its people often refer to as The Kingdom in the Sky.  Lesotho, it’s labelled on maps – ancestral home of the Basotho people.

Lesotho is tiny. At its widest, the country measures only 240km and from top to bottom it’s just a few kilometres shorter than that. But the landscape… oh what a landscape! There is mountain after mountain after unforgiving mountain; delapidated roads – and some new ones – somehow manage to cling to the side of them, and there are villages so remote they can be accessed only on foot. It’s a beautiful but harsh place: relentlessly cold in winter and with an infrastructure that barely supports its resilient people. Lesotho is a country with big skies and a whole lot of soul… and here are five photos to take you there:

If you’ve seen one photo of Lesotho, it’s probably this: Maletsunyane Falls. At 192m, this is the highest single-drop waterfall on the continent – and if you’re brave enough, you can abseil 204m down the basalt cliffs beside it.