Visitor Information

• There are three self-catering communal kitchen which are very basic with only the essential items.  They do have gas cookers,  fridges and portable braais.
• Meals are served
• Drinking water is available for purchase
• A Bar with Pool Table and small curio shop on site, firewood & charcoal for sale
• 2 large halls for conferences.
• Laundry service.
• A large games room with pool table and table tennis table. 
• Clay Tennis Court  (Tennis rackets and balls are available for hire). Private Tennis lessons from a TSA qualified coach available on request. 
• Children’s playground with jungle gym and trampoline
• Labyrinth made with recycled bottles
• Choir & Band perform most evenings for a small donation
• Visit the Handicraft Centre to buy your Lesotho souveniours
• Activities can be booked at a moment's notice

The facilities available at the Lodge are strictly reserved for the use of residents.

We’re excited to share that we are now on Starlink Wi-Fi 🚀✨ and can offer our guests free internet. ✨ Please note: this is still new and we’re testing it out. The signal may not work in all areas of the lodge – you may see the bars go up and down as you move around. Feel free to walk about and try it.  There are some rooms where there is no internet signal.

If you want to have your own internet and are travelling through other parts of Lesotho, we highly recommend bringing your own dongle/modem and purchase an Econet SIM card. SIM cards are available at any Econet store or at the border post. You need to register the sim card using your passport. You can then buy prepaid airtime vouchers and convert it to data. R660 will buy you 20Gigs of data.

Are provided, except for the forest hut rates.

Please bring own torches/flashlights.

All is flexible and can be arranged at a moments notice on site.

The weather in Lesotho is unpredictable. In mountain valleys annual rainfall is 20 inches, with most of it falling in the summer months from November to March, though there is also an average of almost 9 hours sunshine per day. Of course mountain masses can cause uplift of cloud making higher peaks rather wetter, particularly in the afternoons. Snow has been recorded in the mountains throughout the year, though it is not common in the months when we are travelling except on the highest peaks.

Summer temperatures in the lowlands can reach 30 degrees Celsius, but there is a fall of about 1 degree for every 100m gain in altitude. Night time temperatures are frequently below zero in the mountains, and during the day there can be rapid falls in temperature if cold cloud and rain sets in. Our trekking seasons are selected as the best possible - April is towards the end of Autumn, the best season for trekking and the picturesque harvest in the villages. September/October is Spring, with masses of blossoms and clear, warm weather interspersed with occasional short, sharp storms.

November to April (Summer)

The countryside starts becoming green after the first rains usually in October/November. Summers can be hot with short, intermittent thundershowers and hail storms with lightning.  Most of the rainfall comes in the seven-month summer season from November to April.

May - October (Winter)

Winters are generally dry with bright, sunny and crisp clear skies.  The early mornings are very cold until about 9am. During the day the temperatures are moderate to warm with sudden cold temperatures just after about 4:30pm. Minimum temperatures of around 0°C are common in June, the coldest month. Snowfalls often occur either at the beginning or the end of the winter season. When it does snow on the ground at Malealea, it’s usually not very thick and melts the next day as soon as the sun comes up. The Thaba Putsoa mountain range in the distance usually stays covered in snow  for longer, resulting in spectacular views. 

Flora

February is a good time to see Red-hot Pokers and flowering Aloes

March/April you can see fields of cosmos

September – the countryside is dotted pink with peach blossoms