Sore bums and rock paintings

What a great weekend!

Zoozy Sue’s birthday, so we decided to celebrate it in Malealea lodge where we could do horse riding. The lodge was very atmospheric and friendly. We stayed in little traditional mokhoro’s (round huts) big enough for two - three people. Lovely to catch up with the “urban” Mafeteng crew and hear news. Compared to us they have both INTERNET!!! and Shoprite, a well stocked supermarket with cheese!

We hired a combi to take us the 3h journey to the lodge, viewing an amazing sunset over the stunning Lesotho mountains along the way. The beauty of this country is difficult to describe and I wished I could show you some pictures. Hopefully soon…

Saturday we spent on horseback. We rode through beautiful mountain landscapes, up steep ridges and down river passes, to a long drop waterfall for a swim. Here I met a fellow Norwegian randomly! In the afternoon we climbed through a proper “Lion King” landscape with huge rocks and ridges, even an echo cave, to see some 25 000 y old rock paintings. They were not even barred of, so we could go straight over to them and touch. Not overly touristy here!

Another fascinating thing about riding through this landscape is that you realize there are villages around you that blends so perfectly into nature that you can’t see them. People pop up from nowhere, carrying out their daily life, platting each others hair, having a chat with the neighbor or riding to the village for supplies.

Reaching back to the lodge we were pretty knackered and sore bummed after 7 hours of baking sun and newly learnt trotting skills, but a birthday party was still to be had. To cut a long story short, it ended in a very jolly night with lodgers from all over the world joining in on communal sing a songs. I have to say the Welsh and Irish where the most impressive, putting the rest of us to shame with their Folk tunes and choir skills.

Sunday is not too much to say about, apart from that the salty breakfast tasted good and the journey back was painfully long.


… Hope I get to an internet soon as I really miss hearing news from back home and want to update you guys on what I’m up to here.

Salang hantle!