Best Eswatini & Lesotho: Mbabane, Sibebe Rock, Hlane, Maseru, Sani Pass, Maletsunyane Falls & Southern African Mountain Kingdoms Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Lesotho travel | Africa destinations Best of Eswatini and Lesotho: Mbabane, Sibebe Rock (3 billion years), Hlane Royal Park (22,000 ha), Maseru, Thaba Bosiu (founded 1824), Maletsunyane Falls (192 m), Sani Pass (2,873 m) and the Maloti-Drakensberg UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 2000, extended 2013) I spent twenty-three days threading together the two enclaved kingdoms of southern Africa on a single overland loop that began at OR Tambo International in Johannesburg and ended at the same terminal. The trip carried me across two borders, through five language zones, and over the highest commercial road on the continent. Eswatini gave me granite domes and a royal cultural pageant. Lesotho gave me a sandstone fortress that has never been militarily conquered and a 192-metre waterfall that drops into a basalt amphitheatre. I want to share exactly what I paid, what I saw, and how I would do it again. TL;DR Eswatini, which the world knew as Swaziland until King...