Bloemfontein to Maseru, Lesotho, distance 143 km and it took 2:15 hrs including 30 min at the border. There was quite a crowd at the border, you first have to find a place to park on the South African side and then queue up at immigration to get your passport stamped. Drive a few meters and Customs who waved me through, then the SA police checked my Rental documents to make sure that I had permission to take the car out of the country. I had to pay the Rental company a surcharge of R1,470 for each border crossing. Drive a few metres to Lesotho immigration where I did not have to get out of the car stamp and go, next stop another Booth where I sat in the car and had to pay a Road Tax of 90 Maloti which has the same value as the Rand in cash their CC machine was not working. After that traffic was a mess, continued on through the centre, no marked lines, hundreds of small taxis crawling everywhere, basically chaos but slow moving. Back in the real Africa, meandered along until I got to Lion hill which I wanted to see. I had to turn off onto a road that was a narrow pot holed dirt road with sharp stones running into a shanty town decided it was not worth risking a puncture, turned around and back to the centre. 

Lesotho is one of the poorest countries in the world and this is reflected in the infrastructure. Had a look inside the Mall to get something to eat and then I drove to my accommodation which was 34 km out of town and took an hour to get there. Did absolutely nothing the next day but admire the view which was a more attractive proposition than driving into town hahaha.

Tin Town

Mountains

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Approaching the Lesotho Border

Road Tax

Enter Lesotho

Maseru Roads

Standard African fare

Lesotho countryside

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The road to my Lodging

The View

Luxury huts with all the conveniences

Looking up

Standard Africa fare

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