Zingela Safaris

Zingela Safaris

A destination with a difference. Follow the road less travelled and discover Zingela, a bush camp in the heart of a wilderness area in the Battlefields of KwaZulu-Natal. When you stay at the bed and breakfast camp you also have the option of making use of our self-catering facilities or joining the main camp for lunch and dinner.

From the tiny hamlet of Weenen, drive through picturesque Zulu country across river drifts and bush tracks to the romantic river camp of your dreams.

Zingela completes the African wilderness saga with uninterrupted leisure or adventure and adrenalin. We offer unique accommodation, lashings of good food, game walks, fly-fishing, white water rafting, abseiling, 4x4 quad trails, teambuilding and conferences.

Only four hours from Jo’burg and two hours from Durban, the well established camp can sleep from one to fifty one. It’s yours for the asking.

Facilities

En-suite bathrooms, tea/coffee facilities, TV, safe, parking, telephone, credit card facilities, internet, laundry and air conditioning.

Directions

From Durban
Try our new SMS facility: SMS the word zingela 1 to the number 34591
Bypass the towns of Pietermaritzburg, Howick and Mooi River.
Approx 10 min after the Mooi River Toll look out for the Estcourt South turnoff.
Take this glide off and turn right.
You will cross the freeway over a bridge.
The road will take you past the Estcourt bacon factory and over the Bushman’s river.
Drive through the centre of Estcourt.
You will pass the old station on your left, the Nestle factory and a bunch of shops such as Ackermans and Jet.
Absa and the post office will also be on your left.
Keep going straight and you will soon find yourself leaving town on the Colenso Road.
Cross an insignificant little stream, go through the last set of robots and at the crest of the hill 200 metres or so on is the Weenen turnoff (R74).
Someone removed the oncoming sign so you have to twist your neck at 180 degrees to see it.
The turnoff is not far out of town at all so DON’T go to Frere or Colenso!
Make your last cellphone call, as you will have no coverage until you reach Weenen.
From here on signage is good. You will have approx 20min travelling time to go.
Look out for Rhino as you travel slowly through the Game Reserve.
At the T. junction turn right unless you want to sightsee in Colenso.
Check behind the cannas for fine-hungry traffic officers as you enter the little hamlet of Weenen.
At the Engen Garage turn left. The Zingela meeting place is the third house to your left (approx 400 m down the road) and is signposted ‘ Zingela, Mark & Linda Calverley’

From Johannesburg
SMS the word zingela 2 to the number 34591
When descending Van Reenens Pass on the N3 look out for the R103 that leads to Ladysmith at the base of the pass just before the Tugela Toll Plaza.
You will go though a minor toll gate and then travel on a single lane tar road past Besters en route toward Ladysmith.
Bypass Ladysmith by turning right just before the town entrance and follow the signs indicating Colenso.
Colenso is approx 20 min drive away. With Colenso on your left, the R103 will cross the mighty Tugela.
Take the R74 glide off to your left soon thereafter signposted Weenen, Muden, Greytown.
The glide off is before you go under the bridge spanning the R103
The paint on the signs is quite faded so be careful not to overshoot it otherwise you will end up back on the N3.
Turn left at the top of the off ramp. Weenen is approx a 20 min drive away.
Drive past the initial dwellings and farms until you see the Engen Garage. Turn left immediately after it.
We will meet you at the Weenen house……. It is the third house to your left (approx 400 m down the road) and is signposted ‘Zingela, Mark & Linda Calverley’