Lesotho Travel Blogs

We get up at 7.15 am, I was already awake at 5.30, when Trudy was up and about. A large insect (a grasshopper or something) of about 8 cm long was wriggling over her and it startled her so much that she hasn’t slept well since. At eight the local farmers come to the trading post with their donke…

I won’t go into details on the purpose of this visit. I can just mention that this mine was abandoned in the early 80s but has re-opened a few years ago. Some amazing diamonds have been found on this mine, as big as 603 carats!!! Shortly before our visit a 125 carat stone was found. I was lucky …

Bon, j'allais rester un peu à Maseru, mais la ville avait l'air tellement glauque, que j'ai decidé de me pousser dès mon arrivée.  Et encore une fois, chance inimaginable lorsque j'ai trouvé le 2e minibus, et qui partait à l'instant!!!  Juste incroyable.  J'ai ba…

Om 07:15 uur loopt de wekker af. Om 05:30 ben ik ook al een keer wakker geweest, omdat Trudy aan het rond ridderen was. Ze werd vannacht wakker omdat er een groot insect (ze denkt iets sprinkhaanachtigs van een cm of 8) op haar zat te kriebelen. Ze is hier zo van geschrokken dat ze sindsdien heel o…

March 2009 me and two of my friends(André Smit & Patrick Bereng) traveled to Butha Buthe in Lesotho. We didnt plan anything and just wanted to go there and get some nice pictures for a book Patrick has been working on. When it got dark we decided to find a place to sleep. Some of the locals direct…

Me and my friend Patrick stayed at Malealea lodge from 28-29 March 2009.

Post-Graduation World Trip

This summer, or winter, depending on which side of the world you're on, I'll be leaving from the summerish Netherlands, to winterish South-Africa. First 4 weeks of volunteering work in a great project, called Masigcine children's home. Than about 3 and a half weeks of traveling with some Italian guy I never met in real life before.

Howzit, Aloha and Bonjour! This was my first taste of Africa -I have to tell you, the place moves you! Once you've been it will stay with you forever. I went on an overland trip starting in Cape Town and we finished in Jo'burg.

Since I'll driving right past the tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho just as it starts to get dark, I decide to stop in the small capital for the night.  There are cows running around town, but otherwise nothing really destinctive about the place.

2 month trip through Southern Africa

een reis van drie weken door Zuid Afrika... vanaf Jo'burg uiteindelijk door naar Capetown, met een omweg door Lesotho...WAANZINNIGGGG!!!!!

In 2007-2009 I made a trip around the world and in two years time I did see a lot of places in a lot of countries. I made a blog (in Dutch) at http://leokoolhoven.waarbenjij.nu/ , feel free to read my stories there.