2024

BOTANICAL GARDEN

Parks and gardens

A small botanical garden for lovers of biodiversity and rare plants that grow in Lesotho. These 17 hectares nestled on the heights of the village of Katse were initiated in order to protect the alpine flora which was then greatly threatened by the arrival of the Katse dam. In particular, the beautiful spiral aloes that can be found there today were greatly threatened. It is the highest botanical garden in Africa and also contains many traditional medicinal plants used by the Sotho.

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