Babs’ travels -The Peking to Paris Rally and other driving adventures.

After a great night at the Sani Pass some of us got up to watch the sunrise, well Gerard, our photographer and I did, anyway.  The other slugabeds snoozed for a bit longer and missed the best part of the day when the world is waking up. Having only really crossed into Lesotho the day before, as our hotel was in sight of the border post, we set off excitedly into the country. We had an easy start as the road was tarmacced but that soon ended before long and we were on dirt and very rough tracks that were only passable with a 4x4 and presented us with some very challenging driving.  All good fun.  It's not called the 'Kingdom in the sky' for nothing.  Up, down, up, down is the order of the day.  We passed through many attractive villages of mainly thatched rondevals, all with their own shiny new latrine next to them. There has been a massive programme to give every household its own latrine and it is good to see. The villages are very orderly and mostly completely free o

This missive comes to you from Africa's highest pub, after a splendid morning and with your correspondent fortified by beer and chips. What else could a girl want? We entered Lesotho, the Kingdom in the the sky, a couple of hours ago via the Sani Pass which happens to also be Africa's motorable road.  We are on The High Road 4x4adventure organised by the marvellous Duncan And Verity the owners of Tour de Force UK.  What a blast it's  proving to be. The first couple of days were spent in the shadow of the Drakensburg mountains at the atmospheric Cleopatra Farmhouse catching up with old friends, getting acquainted with our vehicles, eating great food and generally fortifying ourselves for the adventure ahead. We are a very select group of 10 cars. We are in hired Hiluxes for this trip, all full equipped for bush camping.  Our first day of driving has been utterly fabulous.  It was only 140 kms up here, to Sani Pass, our home for the night, but it was far from an easy dri