Civil unrest throughout 1999 caused some destruction in most of the town centers and the country is still in the process of rebuilding. Maseru, Lesotho’s capital, is the obvious stepping-off point for a holiday.

Geography
Lesotho is a landlocked country surrounded on all sides by South Africa. It is a mountainous kingdom situated at the highest part of the Drakensberg escarpment on the eastern rim of the South African plateau. Its mountainous terrain is cut by countless valleys and ravines, making it a country of great beauty. To the west, the land descends through a foothill zone of rolling hills to a lowland belt along the border where two-thirds of the population live. Three large rivers, the Caledon, the Orange, and the Tugela, rise in the mountains.