My Top 10 Road Trip Experiences of 2025
For me (and for many others), 2025 was a strange and sporadically horrible year. I spent much of 2025 feeling anxious and depressed for various reasons, and I blogged less than I have in [...]
The Blogitects Hike to Maletsunyane Falls
Back in April, the Blogitects took a long-anticipated road trip to the remote highlands of Lesotho to see Maletsunyane Falls. It was early April, after weeks of heavy rain, so the falls were overflowing [...]
Greylene the Suzuki Jimny Conquers Sani Pass
After I moved to South Africa in August 2010, my very first cross-border trip was to Mokhotlong, Lesotho. Although Mokhotlong is right next to Sani Pass, we didn’t have time to drive it on [...]
Six Arts and Crafts Hotspots in Africa
Although I generally avoid shopping, I love to buy things when I travel -- especially in Africa (which is most of my traveling these days). So when Afristay asked me to write a post [...]
Must-Have Christmas Gifts From the Maluti Mountains
I went to Lesotho last week for a work assignment. I was in a rush on the drive there, but on the way back I took my time, winding through the Maluti Mountains and visiting [...]
Remembering Things in the Land That Grows Rocks
Amidst all the excitement of the #MeetSouthAfrica trip, I nearly forgot that I was going to Lesotho. One of my newest Instagram connections, @nuttywheat, recently referred to Lesotho as "the land that grows rocks". It's a [...]
An Interesting Story About Blankets
UPDATE (February 2021): The Blanket Shop in Clarens is no longer located on Naauwpoort Street, and is sadly no longer run by Minnie and Gertie. But their family has re-opened the shop in downtown [...]
Malealea: A Vacation for Fun People
My friend Michelle and I have a tradition of meeting up somewhere in Africa over the Christmas holidays. Last year we went to Namibia. This year, Michelle wanted to go somewhere new (not easy, [...]
Portraits From the Kingdom in the Sky
Very few people in the world know that there is a tiny country in Africa called Lesotho. Fewer still know how to pronounce it. (It’s Leh-SOO-too.) Even fewer still have actually been there, which [...]
Heather Went to Lesotho and All I Got Was a Clay Porcupine.
From the Melville Cat: Heather left me over the holidays and went on a trip. Apparently she went to a tiny country called Lesotho, and to a place in South Africa called the Eastern Free [...]
Lesotho Redux
2summers has been on hiatus for the last week, as Joe and I were holed up at the Lesotho Sun Hotel in Maseru working on a photo exhibition for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS [...]
Final Thoughts on Lesotho
This trip ended more than a week ago but I still have a few more things to say about it. Driving to Mokhotlong The drive from Maseru to Mokhotlong was about 300 kilometers (168 [...]