And yet it is a country with a unique beauty unlike any other!
The Blanketwrap is excited to announce the winner of it’s first photo contest. The contest’s theme was, “Lesotho” and there is no denying that there is no end to the amount of photographic opportunities available in the mountain Kingdom.
Before we announce the winners, we’d like to extend a huge thank you to all our facebook fans who had the mighty task of picking the overall winner of the 2 Night stay for two people at Maliba Mountain Lodge.
And the winner is: Read more
Maliba Mountain Lodge, with the help of vulture specialists Sonja Kruger and Andre Botha from KZN Wildlife and the Endangered Wildlife Trust, have started a vulture feeding site in the Ts’ehlanyane National Park, with the aim to attract the rare Bearded and Cape vultures for protection and research. In the past vultures have been seen as vermin- spreading disease and killing livestock and have thus been killed, virtually driving them to the brink of extinction.
Vultures form an important ecological component of our natural environment, cleaning up dead carcasses and decreasing the spread of some diseases and therefore need to be protected. The main cause of the demise of this important raptor group is a declining food source, although other issues such as loss of foraging areas, electrocution by electricity pylons, and inadvertent poisoning also have a strong negative influence on their numbers. Read more
Afriski, nestled high up in the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho, is host to both the 2011 SA National Ski Champs and the SA National Snowboarding champs.
The final day of the SA National Alpine Ski Champs saw an unprecedented 77 Skiers register to compete. The competitors spanned from 8 years old to 69 years old, and competed in the highly technical snow sports discipline of Giant Slalom. Skiers race down a timed course of 1000metres of groomed snow and have to maneuver in between gates, missing a gate results in disqualification.
Laura Bauer (1st Place)
Maliba Lodge prides itself in many things and one of them being that; in spite of its beautiful scenery and luxurious chalets, the Maliba Lodge team has been able to make this place so high in the mountains a home away from home for all our guests including his Majesty King Letsie III, who honoured as once again with his presence here at the lodge.
King Letsie III after his lunch at Maliba
Donning colourful blankets and Basotho hats, the Maliba crew attended the third biggest tourism show in the world at Durban’s International Convention Centre in May.
The Tourism Indaba is a remarkable four-day trade event which attracts over 13 000 international delegates from the travel tourism and related industries. We were boosted by the heavyweights with our directors, Nick King and Chris McEvoy, flying in from Australia to join us.
As a new face in the Maliba family and the marketing department, this was my first Indaba and it proved the most invigorating, enjoyable and, at times, overwhelming experience.
On the eve of the Indaba opening, I arrived to look at our allocated stand and was amused by the booming public announcement warning contractors to “stop using saws and angle grinders in the hall immediately!” Read more
The long, snaking dirt pass between Himeville in KwaZulu-Natal and the eastern highlands of Lesotho – The Kingdom in the Sky - is typified by its tough ‘4×4-only‘ surface, ‘boot quaking’ turns and quite spectacular scenery, but has recently sparked controversy in a number of circles after the RSA government (under the auspices of the Department of Transport) and the Lesotho Government have joined together in the application to tar the entire length of the Sani Pass.
Phase 1 of the project has been in progress for a number of years now, with resurfacing of the road between Himeville in KwaZulu-Natal and the South African border post at the foot of the pass. Read more
“From the 9th to 13th March, the ITB (International tourism bourse), the world’s leading travel show took place in Berlin. The German market is one of Lesotho`s most important tourist markets.
Lesotho was represented by the Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC), 3 private tour operators and Maliba Mountain Lodge. The Lesotho stand was located in the heart of the Africa hall, close to other tourist destinations like South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia etc. and had a steady flow of interested visitors. The stand was beautifully decorated by traditional Basotho craftwork, blankets, woven baskets and hats which made it a very unique and eye-catching attraction in the hall.
Lesotho ITB Berlin stand
Teachers Kaye Young & Lidia Mancini
“We came to teach and ended up learning.”
That was the response of two Australian teachers, Lidia Mancini and Kaye Young, who travelled to the highlands of Lesotho to help in the education of local youngsters. Read more
On this day The 11 of March, the Basotho’s long lived heritage comes back life as we honour the former life of king Moshoeshoe I, the great leader and founder of our beautiful Basotho nation. “Moshoeshoe’s Day” brings the whole nation together in all ten districts of Lesotho for a commemoration of our king on the day of his death (11-03-1870).
Moshoeshoe Day Celebrations - Photo by John Aerni
During my primary school days, we would dress in our school uniforms and march as a group to the statue of Moshoeshoe I, which is mounted on a hill in down town, Maseru. There we would listen to a number of speeches by the current King Letsie III, the Prime Minister Phakalitha Mosisili and other government officials. We would learn about our history and how the Basotho nation came to be through the wisdom of our late founder. Read more
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