Thaba-Bosiu

Thaba-Bosiu is the flat topped mountain that Moshoeshoe the First fortified in eighteen twenty four and never lost, and the nation that grew around it takes its founding from this rock. A guide walks visitors up the Khubelu pass to the summit plateau, where the outlines of the old settlement and the royal graves are still laid out in the grass. The pinnacle of Qiloane stands opposite and is said to have given the Basotho hat its shape. The information centre at the foot arranges the guides. It is half an hour from the capital.