During our weekend at Meiringskloof we went to Lesotho for the day. Lesotho (prounounced le-soo-too), is a seperate country in South Africa. We had to get our bakkie searched and show our passports before they would let us in. It is a very very poor country, but absolutely stunning!!

You dont see many cars, most people ride donkeys and use horse & cart, or in this case, cattle & cart!

There's donkeys everywhere!

The shepherds in Lesotho are always wearing colorful blankets to keep warm. There's no paddocks, all the animals have a shepherd or are tied up.

In Fauriesburg, there's mealie (corn) fields with 'dagga' (marijuana) growing in-between. But in Lesotho theres dagga growing with mealies in-between!! This is a green house FULL of dagga right next to the road!! (ok...we'll just plant it here!!)

Yep...thats a hut in the middle of nowhere! You have to look really carefully when you're driving to see them. Most of the people live like that. No power...a long walk down the mountain for water....and its VERY cold in the winter, all the mountains will be covered in snow soon. brrrr.....

The ski lodge. There was only patches of snow, but still very cold!!

Little bits of snow...

While we were standing at the highest point (3,222m) it started to "kapok" its sort of like hail, but soft - not quite snow. (Joe was trying to be tough wearing shorts!) We met some other people there and drank some champagne...lekker!!!

Lots of steep hills and hair-pin bends