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...
Thaba Bosiu was just an overnight stop for us on our way to Semonkong. We were kindly allowed to park next to the village, near the restaurant where we had dinner. Thaba Bosiu is a historic sandstone plateau and one of the most important places in Lesotho, regarded as the spiritual and...
We drove our truck from Maliba Lodge with a local guide to visit Basotho villagers living in the surrounding mountains. The community is connected with the Maliba Community Trust, which supports local development through tourism, including regional health services, education programmes...
We finally received approval to visit Sandstone Estates, a working commercial farm in South Africa’s Eastern Free State and home to one of the world’s largest private collections of vintage agricultural machinery, railways, military vehicles, and transport history. Upon our...
Since we were already driving through the area, we stopped briefly at the Basotho Cultural Village, a living museum nestled beneath the spectacular sandstone mountains of Golden Gate Highlands National Park in South Africa’s Free State province. The village features an 18th-century-style...
As part of our Sani Pass trip, we visited Sekiring Village, often spelt Skeering by local tour operators. This living, traditional Basotho settlement lies roughly 7 kilometres beyond the Sani Pass border post, on Lesotho’s rugged high-altitude plateau at almost 2,900 metres above...
On our way to Underberg, we stopped at two culturally profound landmarks just a short distance apart in the greater Durban area: the Umhlatuzana Hindu Temple in Chatsworth and Mariannhill Monastery. Although they belong to different faiths, both places share remarkably similar stories of...
After two days of rain, we finally got one day with better weather, so we decided to make the most of it and see as much of Durban as possible in a single day. Durban, affectionately known as “Durbs”, is a vibrant coastal city in KwaZulu-Natal, famous for its warm subtropical...
Our second historical stop of the day was Ladysmith, a historic town in northern KwaZulu-Natal that played a central role in the Anglo-Boer War. The Ladysmith Siege Museum sits next to the town hall in a building built in 1884 that originally served as a market house and later became a...
After spending the night in Dundee, we visited the Talana Museum (🎟️50 ZAR), one of the most important heritage sites in northern KwaZulu-Natal, which brings together the region’s rich military, industrial, and cultural history. Dundee was founded in 1882 by Peter Smith and soon...