Profile used for matching
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- Script
- Latin
- Language
- English, Sesotho
- Road edge lines
- Yellow, solid
- Centre lines
- White, dashed, Triple
- Street View car
- White
- Camera
- Gen 3
- Warning signs
- White triangle
- Landscape
- Mountainous, Alpine
- Road surface
- Unsealed
- Road numbers
- A
Country-wide 7
All coverage = Gen3, white car w/o antenna (back visible almost everywhere)
Eswatini: Tall grass → Eswatini; treeless tabletops → Lesotho.
Botswana: Flat dry Kalahari → Botswana; mountains → Lesotho.
South Africa: Gen3 southern-Africa round → lean the small three.
'Lesotho mountains': bare, treeless, tabletop-like shapes w/ horizontal rocky ridgelines (inland SE: more rolling green hills but ridges still show)
Western-Cape ZA mountains can look similar - the everywhere-ness of the tabletops is the Lesotho tell.
South Africa: Tabletop ridges EVERYWHERE you look → Lesotho; ZA's are more localised to the Cape.
Plates long white w/ blue text; partially unblurred you may see the Mokorotlo hat symbol left
Yellow outer + white inner lines; some roads have the southern-African triple middle lines (2 solid + dashed between); drives left
South Africa: Landscape + plates decide.
Rural areas: traditional round huts w/ thatched roofs (rarer in the neighbours)
Agave plants common countryside clue; grasslands = short grass
Eswatini: Short → Lesotho; tall → Eswatini.
Many people wear the traditional Basotho woollen blanket; lots of free-roaming livestock on roads (cows, horses, donkeys)
The Basotho blanket is a Lesotho-only garment.
Regional 1
Coverage very sparse (SE mostly yellow roads only; all urban coverage in the NW); two landscape halves: 'flat' (tabletops far from the road; most coverage/farms) vs mountainous (road on the mountainside, big green mountains - only ~6 main roads covered, learnable by heart)
City 1
Maseru = the only real urban downtown (suburbs still rural); Qacha's Nek (remote SE border town) = green mountains all around + notably bad weather
Specific spots 2
Reservoirs: the big Katse reservoir visible from the A25; smaller Mohale from an A3 off-road (don't confuse w/ the Letseng diamond-mine lake)
Road spotlights: A2 Maseru↔Mafeteng = by far the best pavement in the country; A25 east of Katse = raindrops on the camera in one direction; A5 south of Nyakosoba = construction w/ white-painted stick 'bollards' + wide dark-brown dirt road; Ramatsediso→Sehlabathebe NP = unpaved light-brown road, fluffy clouds, grassy high mountains + light exposed rocks