Lesotho day trip
Trip Start
Apr 2009
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Trip End
Dec 2009
Maseru, Maseru, Lesotho
Friday, June 26, 2009
It was not too long a drive, c.3 hrs each way with loads of loverly country to look at (really made me appreciate just how isolated Kimberley is - there really truley and honestly is nothing here at all except desert!!!) - i shall post lots of pictures fom the road trip soon i hope but i havent got them with me at the minute - so we drove to lesotho and accross the border - which was a joke in itself, not very helpfull not very friendly and lots of paper work (signed in triplicate, countersigned, sent in, sent back, buried in soft peat for 6 months and eventually recycled into fire lighters!). the first amusment were the enormous signs stating LESOTHO sponsered by Vodacom (thats vodafones africa network) - "great" thinks i "thats the network i am with should get great coverage". oh no... the very second, and i do mean the second we crossed maseru bridge and actually enetred Lesotho, no network coverage at all!! lol oh well. Anyway we drove into the center of Maseru, a dump, a complete dump. dirty, roaming with homeless, and street kids. we proceded to go to a nice looking little cafe, me wanting to experiance the place at least a little, but george and chester decided KFC was a better bet, so we drove to lesotho, to have a KFC :-/ whilst leaving a street kid was begging from us so we got him so new clothes, kitted him out in winter garb and he was most perplexed! dont think he knew what was going on and was a little scared that the other kids would beat him up for his trendy new warm kit - oh well we shall never know.
anyway post KFC we left lesotho, a real cultural experiance! - back to the border to do the business of the day and get george a fresh 90day visa. nope! they gave him 7 days! so the entire trip was a\something of a complete wasteof time effort and money - but hey - i have atleast seen something of lesotho, unfourtunatly the eastern side is apparently really really pretty, but i will probably never get to see it now :-(
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