How to find kukummi lodge the ultimate secluded Drakensberg experience

Getting here

GPS Coordinates: 29°2’5.00″S 29°25’5.00″E

Kukummi Lodge is on a farm road, concrete strips and dirt, not suitable for cars with a low ground clearance. High rise vehicles and 4×4 vehicles are recommended. We are about 3k from the main road, the R600. Vehicles with a low ground clearance do use the road daily but this would depend on your off road driving skills.

From Durban

  1. Travel along the N3 through Mooi River toll

  2. Pass Estcourt turnoff

  3. Pass Shell Ultra City and take the exit 194 (Bergville, Colenso, R74 )

  4. Turn left (Bergville Sign) and proceed for 20km to Winterton. 1km through the town, turn left opposite the Engen Garage, onto the R600.

  5. Proceed for +- 13km to the crossroads at Thokozisa. Continue straight for +-17km. Pass The Nest, Champagne Sports Resort, Cederwood shopping centre on the right, Drakensberg Sun Resort turnoff on right, Dragons Peaks and the Drakensberg Boys Choir School on the right. Less the 300m after their gate you will see a small sign FARM ROOD on the right fixed to the fence in front of Rise Upliftment Centre. Turn into the driveway. The gate is black and set back from the road. This is an unpaved road.

  6. The gate is on automatand you can push open/closed by hand. Follow the concrete strip road down the hill and cross over a weir bridge. Mount Champagne’s tennis courts will be on the right hand side. Continue along the road and you will go over another weir bridge, follow the road up the hill.

  7. When you reach the second gate (black with a red pedetrian gate to the right). Phone or whatsapp 063 109 8124 or 072 379 6083 and we will call the gate to let you in.

  8. Go through the gate and you will pass a house on the right, follow the road until you see a left turn. Follow this turn along the grass driveway past the lemon trees. You will go through an old farm gate. Continue up the hill. The lodge is at the top of the hill. If you reach a third bridge, you have missed the left turn, so should retrace.

From Gauteng

  1. Take the first exit off after the Tugela Toll Plaza

  2. Turn left, for approx. 4km on the N11 and then turn right towards Winterton. You will cross the N3 highway. At the T-junction (R74) turn left towards Winterton.

  3. As you enter Winterton, opposite the Engen Garage, turn right onto the R600.

  4. Proceed as above

Alternate route from Gauteng through Oliviershoek Pass (more scenic)

  1. At Harrismith turn right onto N5 for 5km.

  2. Turn left onto R712 QwaQwa, Bergville Road.

  3. Left again on Bergville, Oliviershoek Pass through Bergville and onto Winterton.

  4. As you enter Winterton turn right opposite the Engen Garage on the R600 Central Drakensberg road.

  5. Proceed as above.