Amphitheatre Backpackers Drakensberg

A great place to stay . They offer 3 tours Rock Climing on the Cathedral Peak .
Hike to the Tugela Falls , the 2nd highest in the world ,the highest in Africa.
Lesotho day trip .The highest country in the world . South Africa and Lesotho are separated from one another by the Drakensberg mountains .
We stayed 3 DAYS 2 NIGHTS, had beakfast dinner every day and took the LESOTHO DAY TOUR for R1,800 = $250 canadian approx for everything .

Lesotho

The Drakensberg

Local Besotho boys at the pub

The old boys at the local pub . Notice the more traditional bushman with his big hat and blanket .( I wonder who is watching his cattle )

Lesotho is the highest country in the world . Separated from South Africa by the Drakensberg mountains, known in Zulu as Ukhuhlamba , which means the barrier of spears .

This is one of the poorest country's in the world . There are no tarred roads and they use horses to travel around .

The bushmen(Nguni tribes men ) travel great distances , with their cattle , looking for grazing , and sleep out in the open , eating lizards and mice for nourishment .

Time has stood still here .

Stop and listen , you hear no cars , planes , trains , just the odd whistel from the Bushmen hearding their cattle .

Lesotho is the country , Besotho are the citizens , and Sesotho is the language .They are decendents from the Nguni tribes , who took refuge in these mountains from the Zulu's , Boer and British .

A young Besotho boy , wearing my hat . Canadian eh!

There is a family living in this hut . Must get weet when it rains .

Look I can see the C.N. Tower from here.

Stoneage cave paintings from the San people

"Ray I think we are lost "

The school Princible , teacher ,caretaker ,bottle washer, Mama TU TU , a lovely lady ,
Very passionate about teaching the children . She has 100 pupils in her class.

Mama TU TU comming to greet us .

The school gets no funding from the goverment, so some of the tour money goes towards helping .

Rough roads . No tar .

Rough roads . 4x4 only , the Lesotho
4x4 is a mule or horse

South African Boarder Pass to Lestho. Passports are required .

Ikageng "SERVE THE CITY "day care

bill's dog , her way of keeping cool

great niece's christening

cycat

Flowering , pre historic plant , baboons eat the flower ,spitting out the poisonous seed .

orphan boy

white lion cub

snake pithon