Day 3:https://tinyurl.com/LesothoDay3
Hit the dirt early morning towards Sani. The sun was luckily out and the dirt was mostly okay. We did come across some mud patches, some worse than others.
We came across a group (Alfie Cox's apparently) of bikers come from the other side and one on a KTM 690 hit the mud hard and came off, breaking his arm, etc. Not good, but it was a big group so not much we could do to help. No reception, and even if we had, who do you call? Need to get this info sorted before the next trip.
We carried on with this amazing road and some of the most stunning scenery I've seen in my life. Some of the stretches were tricky with massive ruts and if you chose the wrong line you'd really be in for a bad time. Luckily no incidents, other than my buddy and his pillion come off in the dirt. No injuries.
We finally got to the tar road leading to Sani and rested for a bit. We noticed a bakkie with a KTM and rider on the back, looking worse for wear. The same guy from earlier - they loaded him and his bike on a local's bakkie and sent him on his way. Not something we would do, to be honest.
He could not move his right arm, had no comms and seemed a bit dazed. He insisted on getting on his bike and we realized we wouldn't be able to change his mind, so we helped him on his bike, got his hand on the throttle and off we went, escorting him slowly to Sani pub. It started raining again when we got there.
We also learned a valuable lesson here - comms is important and NEVER lose sight and don't be stupid....I noticed my friend and his pillion was missing so I stopped and waited, but my group didn't see my signals and carried on. I could sense a big f-up developing here.
I waited for a bit but my buddy wasn't coming and neither was the rest of my group. I eventually decided to turn around to go looking for them.
Found them on the side of the road with a massive sigh of relief, turns out my one friend spotted his dad who was on tour with another BM group and stopped to chat without signaling. Not cool.
We headed towards Sani to meet up with the rest of the group. Injured guy was able to contact his people with help on the way, so he was taken care of. Still raining at this point and the whole top of Sani was filled with mist.
We headed towards Sani Stone Lodge and this turned out to be mess of note. The snottiest mid I have ever encountered and we were slipping and sliding all over the place. I was NOT having a good time at this point and I was simply gatvol to say the least.
I was also regretting fitting a Karoo Street rear tyre.
We finally reached the lodge and was finally able to have some room temp beers - no working fridges there. Very picturesque though and we had some nice pap & steak that evening.
They did switch the generator on so we could have charge our devices, but no warm shower unfortunately.
It was also raining the whole evening so we knew we were in for a bad time getting out the next morning in the mud.
Topic: Lesotho - Katse to Sani Stone Lodge via the A3 (Read 745 times)