Lesotho Overview

Lesotho, Africa's tiny mountain kingdom is completely surrounded by South Africa. This is the only country in Africa where Africans have adapted to living in near Alpine conditions. Lesotho is a land of mountains, deep valleys and rural homesteads that dot the landscape. Summer brings the rain and the hills and mountains are swathed in a mantle of green grass and wild flowers. In winter snow often covers the mountains especially in the east where the Maluti Mountains rise up to meet the Drakensberg Mountains at altitudes exceeding 3000 metres.