East London, officially proposed for renaming to KuGompo City, is a major port city on South Africa’s Indian Ocean coastline, situated between the Nahoon and Buffalo rivers. It is home to the country’s only river port and serves as a key logistics hub for the nearby Mercedes...
On our way to East London, we stopped briefly at Reef Café for breakfast before taking a short hike around Nahoon Point Nature Reserve. Proclaimed in 2004, this beautiful coastal reserve stretches along more than two kilometres of largely unspoiled shoreline, featuring coastal sandstone...
We spent two nights on the beach near Chintsa, a picturesque coastal village in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province and a gateway to the famous Wild Coast. About 38–40 km northeast of East London (KuGompo City), Chintsa sits at the mouth of the Chintsa River, where it meets the Indian...
Today we started really early, determined to complete our planned route from Malealea Lodge in Lesotho to Queenstown — officially renamed Komani — in South Africa’s Eastern Cape before darkness. It turned out to be a remarkably scenic road trip, taking us from the dramatic and rugged...
Malealea is a scenic mountain village and valley in the Mafeteng District of southwestern Lesotho, tucked deep into the Makhaleng (also known as Makhomalong) Valley, among the foothills of the Maluti and Thaba-Putsoa mountain ranges. The landscape is classic Lesotho: rugged basalt ridges...
The drive from Morija to Malealea was beautiful and increasingly adventurous, with the final 7 km taking us over the famous Gates of Paradise Pass. The rugged section begins where the paved road ends, and we turned left onto the unpaved track. Within the first 1.8 km, we climbed to the...
We made a short detour to Morija, the historic cultural heart of Lesotho, known as the country’s first mission station and an important centre of art, education and heritage. French Protestant missionaries from the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society established the settlement in...
Maletsunyane Falls is a spectacular 192-metre single-drop waterfall plunging dramatically into a deep gorge near Semonkong. It is one of Africa’s highest single-drop waterfalls (🎟️160 LSL). The enormous curtain of falling water creates a permanent cloud of mist around the gorge...
We spent one day and two nights in Semonkong, a remote mountain town in the heart of Lesotho, best known for the spectacular 200-metre-high Maletsunyane Falls. Finding suitable parking for our expedition truck wasn’t easy, but we eventually managed to reverse through a narrow path...
The drive from Thaba Bosiu to Semonkong was a stunning mountain journey of roughly 120 kilometres, which took us about 3.5 hours on a surprisingly perfect tar road. The route climbed into Lesotho’s high-altitude landscapes, crossing dramatic mountain ranges including the Thaba...