Malealea is a town about two hours from Maseru up in the mountains. One of the drivers, Jef, picked us up at 7:30am and drove us there. I had brought a book to read in the car but quickly realized that that definitely wasn’t a good idea once we were off the main road and driving up steep, rocky terrain! We got to Malealea around 9:30am and were planning to do the pony trekking. However the SOS orphanage across the road from the Baylor Clinic was having a teen camp in Malealea for two weeks so we decided to go visit with the kids first. One of the camp leaders picked us up and drove us to where the boys were building a road to connect the main road to the camp. The boys eyed us very suspiciously when we offered to help and it was probably with good reason because Kadi and I only lasted about 20 min using the pick axes! The manual labor was much harder than it looked, but fortunately they were finishing and heading back to camp to eat breakfast. We went along and said met some of the teen girls, and then the driver took us back for our two hour pony trek. The trail through the mountains and small villages was amazing!Kadi using the pick ax
Dog at Malealea Lodge that kinda looked like Bailey (this is for you Mackenzie!)
Kadi with the peacocks at Malealea Lodge
Erika dumping the wheelbarrow at the road building site
Erika on her pony
Little boy leading my horse to the trail
My pony
Trekking
More trekking
We took a stop and this was the view
Everyone had to take a turn pretending to jump off the edge of the cliff
Erika jumping
Kadi jumping
I really liked these round houses, they look so much warmer than the Cottage!
Giant aloe vera
Girls at teen camp
Helping wash dishes
Cutting up tripe...unlike Erika and I's thinking this is NOT a type of fish!
Erika got some tripe to go...I had no intention of going near it but I decided to be very adventurous and try a bite! The spices were really good but I wasn't crazy about the chewy texture.
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