Ts'ehlanyane National Park ,Lesotho:

The Ts'ehlanyane National Park is Lesotho's Largest National Park and is located in the Maloti Mountains in Butha-Buthe District, Lesotho, and is part of the larger Maloti-Drakensberg Transfrontier Conservation Area. This Lesotho Northern Park protects a beautiful high-altitude, 5600-hectare patch of rugged wilderness, including one of Lesotho’s only stands of indigenous forest with a number of rare undergrowth plants that are unique to this woodland habitat.This proclaimed protected pristine area lies at the junction of the Ts’ehlanyane and the Holomo rivers. It owes its origin to the access road to the "Mamohale tunnel" (May 1991), which was the first adit drive for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. This audit covers 22 km from the source at Katse Dam to the Ash River outfall near Clarens, Free State.This Lesotho Northern Park protects a beautiful high-altitude, 5600-hectare patch of rugged wilderness, including one of Lesotho’s only stands of indigenous forest with a number of rare undergrowth plants that are unique to this woodland habitat. Here indigenous “Ouhout” (Leucosidea) trees of significant size are preserved.

The Park has an altitude ranging from 1940m to 3112 metres and is considered mostly sub-alpine. The diversity of habitat types is exceptionally high and derived from the large altitudinal range that the park has.The park is located deep in the northern range of the Maloti Mountains at the foot of the Holomo Pass and only about 45 minutes on tarred road from the South African border post of Caledonspoort (Caledonspoort is 15 minutes drive from the popular Freestate town of Clarens and about 4 hours from O.R Thambo International Airport).

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