Thaba Tours - Lesotho via Sani Pass - Drakensberg - South Africa

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Abstract: LESOTHO VIA SANI PASS - WE GO FURTHER!

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A once in a lifetime trip with Thaba Tours will offer you the freedom, convenience, comfort and luxury of a fully guided Sani Pass and/or Lesotho Overland Tour.

Thaba Tours takes pride in going the extra mile to offer you highly personalized service, whether it be for a team building event, research project, holiday or an adventurous sporting event.

Our professionally guided trips in fully enclosed 4x4 vehicles up the spectacular and enchanting Sani Pass is the most memorable experience in the Southern Drakensberg. Tours cross into KwaZulu Natal’s Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park close to the historical and frontier towns of Underberg and Himeville.

Sani Pass Day Trip

Underberg - Sani Pass - Basotho Village - Sani Top Chalet (The highest pub in Africa at 2874m) - Underberg.

Departure from the Thaba Tours 4x4 Adventures office 09h00.
We travel through Himeville to the World Heritage Site of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, following the Mkomazana River up the scenic Sani Valley to the South African Border Post (border formalities). We continue up the Sani Pass Road, which was built by David Alexander between 1948 and 1954, viewing the Hodgson’s Peaks and the old South African Border Post.

A stop at the Good Hope Trading Post, where the history of the trading era is explained. Climbing to an altitude of 2874m and zig-zaging upwards beneath towering cliffs, buttresses, past waterfalls and unique flora and bird life.

The view site offers unparalleled vistas of the 12 Apostles of the Southern Drakensberg, Moshoeshoe’s Finger, with the Sani Pass and spectacular Wild Protea in the background.

After having completed the border formalities on the Lesotho Border, we arrive at the Sani Top Chalet, where we stop for a hearty lunch.

A visit to an authentic Basotho Mountain Village is included. Descending the Sani Pass in the afternoon, the excitement grows, passing through the 20 hairpin bends of the steepest section of the Pass. One is reminded of the fact that the Sani Pass originated as a mule track linking one to another world, where life is untouched by civilization. Arrival in Underberg at the Thaba Tours office in the late afternoon.

Lesotho - Kingdom in the Sky

Experience one of the few remaining unspoiled wonders in Africa. Lesotho with its majestic mountain beauty is the only country in the world with all of its territory lying over 1200m above sea level, just waiting to be explored by you!

It has the highest mountain in Southern Africa, Thabana Ntlenyana (3.482m), the highest road in Africa, Tlaeeng Pass (3.255m) and the highest single drop waterfall in Southern Africa, Maletsunyane Fall (197m).

From the lowlands with its forests and wild flowers in the west, the land rises to the grassland mountains in the east. The traditional dress, the Basotho conical hat and blankets, are still worn everywhere in this ethnical country.

Visitors may see San Rock paintings and dinosaur footprints in this virgin terrain, accessible only on foot or by horseback.

Trips across mountain ranges into valleys with spectacular waterfalls, crystal clear rivers and craft markets which offer wool and mohair weaving, sheepskin products, tapestries etc.
For the outdoor enthusiast we offer pony trekking, hiking, bird watching and mountain biking.

Accommodation facilities range from hotels to lodges to self-catering chalets and backpackers.