Protea Hotel Simunye

If you are looking for a true African setting then you should definitely visit the Protea Hotel Simunye. The turn off is located between Eshowe(30kms away) and Melmoth(20kms away). This is a real cultural experience where you can truly go back in African time.

Accommodation at Protea Hotel Simunye consists of:

The Hotel offers superb accommodation in the heart of Zululand. The rooms were all built by Zulus without any plans and just on pure instinct. There are six of these rock rooms, 5 lodge rooms and 5 Zulu huts in the Zulu muzi. The rooms and lodge gives off a true African feel. For breakfast you are served a typical farm breakfast and for dinner there is either a barbecue or traditional Zulu food will be prepared. The lodge also offers conference facilities where the conference room is built up into the cliffs and has immaculate views. The room can accommodate up to 40 people comfortably.

There are plenty of places you can go and escape in from thatched wooden decks set into the tree tops with the stunning river flowing below you to breathtaking waterfalls and if you feel like exploring you can go and visit the comfortable cave in the cliff face.

For leisure you can go on one of the trails, go for a swim, a definite must is going for a horse ride where you can experience Zululand at its best, and the culture tours are great fun. Great place to visit is the Zulu homes when they are having ceremonies, here you can escape into another world for centuries ago and meet a true Sangoma and learn all out there ways, remedies, herbs and medicines. The Zulu dancing is fascinating beyond belief with there mysteries of courtship, love and marriage all hidden in there dances, beadwork and hunting talents.