Zululand Backpackers

36 Main St, P.OBox 24, Eshowe, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa 3815

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Overview

Hostel in forest setting in cultural capital of Zululand.All amenities. Spacious gardens, swimming pool. Family owned Brewery.

City/Town: Eshowe.

Comfortable 50 bed hostel in a forest setting and only half a kilometre from town. Spacious gardens with very large swimming pool. Kitchen, laundry, bar, open campfire and internet café (ADSL). We have a Zulu Traditional medicinal garden. Only Backpackers in the world with our own Micro Brewery. Try our “Zulu Blonde”.

This is an ideal base to explore “101 Things to do in Eshowe, Zululand”. Eshowe is the cultural capital of Zululand. Experience rural & urban African life. Every weekend we attend traditional Zulu ceremonies – weddings, coming of age, sangoma healing & initiation. Zulu village (also overnight) and township tours. Upliftment projects like classroom building, Skills centre, aids orphanage, economic housing, crafts and others. Volunteers for aids orphanage welcome. Fort Nongqayi (Zululand Historical Museum), Vukani collection. Norwegian missionary museum, Shakaland, Dhlinza Forest Aerial Boardwalk, Martyr’s Cross, Cetshwayo’s memorial. Zulu and Anglo-Zulu Battlefields.

Eshowe "A City Set on a Hill” is situated close to the Capitals of the old Zulu kingdoms and the birthplace of Zulu. It was the first British Capital of Zululand as a separate British colony (1887 - 1897). It was King Mpande who first invited the Norwegian missionary, Rev. Ormund Oftebro in 1853 to settle his mission station here, thereby forever changing the face of Eshowe. The Museum offers a rare look at John Dunn unique in being South Africa's only official white Zulu Chief, and husband to 48 Zulu wives. Eshowe is situated around a 250 hectare indigenous coastal scarp forest. DLINZA FOREST with hiking trails and the magnificent new DLINZA FOREST AERIAL BOARDWALK. The boardwalk, the first of its kind in Southern Africa and
We have a resident historian and forest birding expert.
All in or within 15 kms of Eshowe.

Daily Tours. (NO minimum numbers)

Zulu Village Tour. R235.
Zulu Village overnight. R345
Zulu Village Tour & Sangoma. R265.
King Dinizulu Township Tour. R235
“Upliftment projects in Zululand”. R235
“Valley of the Zulu Kings” Tours from R395.
Zululand Outback Tour. R1895
Zululand Weekend Package. R1995.
Traditional Zulu Ceremony. R295.
Kwa Makethleni healing ceremony. R235
Isandlwana & Rorkes Drift budget tour with Victor. (Car hire)
Battlefield & Agricultural Tours on demand.

Rates: Dorms R80. Doubles R200, Singles R140, Triples R290. (Linen provided)En suite rooms available.
Camping. R55.

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Linen Free

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Bar Credit cards accepted
Self-catering Facilities No curfew
Lounge area Internet
24 hour reception Restaurant
Safety deposit 24 hour hot showers
Tours/Travel Desk Washing machines

Cancellation Policy

Guests can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 2 days day(s) before arrival. Deposits paid are non refundable.

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