The Outpost

Overview

The Kruger National Park is widely recognised as one of the largest game reserves on the African continent – measuring in at 18,989 square kilometers, it boasts nine gates, and an exhaustive ecosystem. The reserve itself is available (and popular for) self driving, and is well loved the world over as a place of adventure.

The park’s northern tip is home to the Makuleke Region’s Outpost Lodge – a honeymooner’s dream getaway destination, resting gently on the crest of a looming hilltop which overlooks the panoramic breathtaker of the Limpopo floodplains.

Accommodation

Accommodation at The Outpost consists of twelve individual lodge rooms, with en-suite bathrooms, mosquito netted bedrooms, min-bars, remote controlled weather screens, affixed balcony areas, and 180-degree views of the Luvuvhu River Valley.

Wildlife

Kruger National Park plays host to a vast, free roaming array of impressive mammals, including Burchell’s zebra, African buffalo, impala, lion, black and white rhino, cheetah, leopard, elephant, and hippopotamus, as well as various reptiles and water creatures, and five hundred and seventeen distinct bird species.

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Children
Children younger than ten years old are not permitted at The Outpost Lodge.
Children 10 to 11 years of age pay 50% of the full adult rate if sharing with parents.
Children 12 – 18 years of age pay the full adult rate.
Children must be supervised at all times.

Directions

Location:

Directions Via Pietersburg (Polokwane) and Louis Trichardt (Makhado) to The Outpost Follow the N1 north towards Messina (Musina). Just after you have gone through the Baobab Toll Gate, you will find the R525 turnoff to Tshipise and Pufuri. Take this turnoff to your right and you will eventually pass Tshipise on your right. Further along the R525 you will also pass through the Masisi boom (this access boom is approximately 111 km from the R525 turnoff from the N1).

Please note the detour: Directions for the detour at Masisi to get around the washed away road are: When reaching Masisi on the R525 (approximately 110km from the N1), just before the turn-off to Tshikondeni coal mine (to the right), turn off the tar road left where you will see a primitive control post with a gate and a person in green uniform. Once through the gate all is gravel.

Drive approximately 400m, passing over temporary concrete pipes, then turn right just before very large tree. Follow road past houses on the right for approximately 300m then turn right at the first crossroad. Follow road and keep to left curve after 200m, then after another 200m turn right. After 300m, passing over concrete pipes you will get back to the tar road. Turn left onto the tar road and follow road approximately 20km to Pafuri gate.

Approximately 35 km further, still on the R525 you will enter through the gate to the Makuya and Kruger National Parks. From this gate travel another 6.6 km until you see the sign for the Outpost. Turn right at the sign and follow the 4 km dirt road to the camp.

Flight Options:
1. OR Tambo to Phalaborwa Airport – Private Transfer which takes 5 hours
2. OR Tambo to Tshikondeni Private Airstrp (1 400m Gravel Tshikondeni Mine Landing Strip: S22°30’ E30°53’ (±45 minute transfer to the Lodge – Complimentary)