Pontseng Sebapala

The man called Rasilasi is the 1st person to stay at Pontseng,  Rasilasi who was staying in the rock that was being built by the bushmen in the early years back,  Rasilasi stayed there in several years until he decided to build a home at the nearest village called Pontseng and got married, his wife Masilasi had kids, one of her kids was Rapholoana who got married and her wife name was Mapholoana. 

Mapholoana created a well and named it after herself.  This well called Mapholoana,  people who live at Pontseng village are still using that we'll to provide themselves with water.  It's water is naturally cold all the year around,  mostly get very cold especially in summer, 

Quthing history

This historic site is one of Lesotho hidden treasure. It is located in Quthing District, about 180km South of Maseru. The cave house was built in 1866 by Rev.David  Ellenberger,  a missionary of the Paris Evangelical Missionary society.

Ellenberger used a natural rock shelter which had been used by Bushmen,  to make his home,  he enlarged the cave and enclosed it with brick.  This became his home with his wife and the kids, most of his children where born in that cave.

The cave house restored in 2003 since then over 8000 visitors have come from around the world. It is now a museum with exhibits installed.

Rev.David is the one who discovered the Dinosaurs footprints in the district of Quthing in 1960. In 2000 million years ago dinosaurs where living in the district of Quthing and they were killed by volcano and the other one's that survived the volcano were killed by the hunger.

Rev.David found the footprints and there were some bones around, those bones belonged to the 4 metres long dinosaur. When time goes by they transformed to rocks