Cheese Farm & Lodge

In the 'hood, Mtubatuba as a destination

Mtubatuba, which means ‘he who was pummelled out’, is a small town north of Richards Bay and close to the entrance of the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park. Initially established as a railway siding in 1903 in a swampland of reeds and papyrus, the town Mtubatuba was almost swept away in 1918 in one of the worst floods the area had seen in over 100 years. It was only in the late 1920s that efforts ... cont.

other destinations on the Elephant Coast

Hluhluwe, Lake Sibaya, Mkuze Game Reserve, Mkuze, Sodwana Bay, St Lucia, Kosi Bay, Mabibi, Jozini, Kuleni Game Park, Ndumo, Ingwavuma, Manguzi