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From Mbabane (or Ngwenya-Oshoek Border Post) • Ngwenya-Oshoek Border Post: It's quite relaxed. You will need to get a slip of paper from the SA customs for your car, no cost. After stamping your passport at departure, the SA police sometimes examine your vehicle chassis number and engine number on exit, don't be alarmed! Drive to the Swazi side, fill in an entry form requesting up to 30 days (renewable) Once your passport is stamped, go to the next counter and pay R50 road levy, let customs search your car if they want to, and you are in Swaziland! • Visa's are not generally required from Europe, Commonwealth countries and North America. You need not declare your camera equipment. If you don't get behind a tour bus, the whole procedure should take less than 15 minutes. The toilets at the border are sort of OK. There is fuel here, often 10% cheaper in Swaziland. • From the border, there are a few km’s of frustrating roadworks until you reach Mbabane. At the second traffic light you will turn right to Manzini. There is freeway all the way to Manzini. Be careful as you come down the steep hill below Mbabane as it has notorious bends and a high accident rate. Continue directly through the untidy city of Manzini; try and stay in the right lane as the left is congested with taxi and bus traffic heading for the bus rank! About 40 km from Manzini, when you are close to the mountain, keep a good lookout for the major intersection to Siteki (Right turn) Also, look out for our “Mabuda B&B” green signs. Take this and after 7 kms, you will drive straight through the Foot and Mouth control line, (no need to stop, as you are entering a surveillance area.) 7 km thereafter, you're in Siteki. • Once at the town: Past a filling station on your right, a hotel on your left, take the first right turn you are allowed to take. (The first one being a One-Way) At that turn-off, you will see the sign directing you to Mabuda. (If you get to the Hospital, you've gone much too far!) • You pass over a stop street, and at the little cemetery, turn right, also signposted. Cross the tar road directly and onto a dirt road, (only 1km to go!) over a cattle grille, and you have arrived. The B&Bs are the thatched buildings down on your Left. Make your way to the little park home under the trees where Wits and Ina will welcome you. (If for any reason they are not there, please make your way to Mabuda house nearby.) If at any stage you get lost, wind down your window and in your best English, ask for directions to Mabuda Farm.
From Nelspruit: • Take the N4 to Komatipoort: Just after crossing a river and just before the town, take a right turn towards the Swazi Border. You will go past farm land and some small villages (keep to the speed limit): After about 80km, you will be at Mananga or Bordergate into Swaziland. This border is quite relaxed. You will need to get a slip of paper from the SA customs for your car, no cost. After stamping your passport at departure, the SA police sometimes examine your vehicle chassis number and engine number on exit, don't be alarmed! Drive to the Swazi side, fill in an entry form requesting up to 30 days (renewable) Once your passport is stamped, go to the next counter and pay R50 road levy, let customs search your car if they want to, and you are in Swaziland! • Visa's are not generally required from Europe, Commonwealth countries and North America. You need not declare your camera equipment. If you don't get behind a tour bus, the whole procedure should take less than 15 minutes. The toilets at the border are sort of OK. There is fuel here, often 10% cheaper in Swaziland. • From the border, continue till you meet a traffic circle, incongruously in the bush! Keep Left, pass the settlements of Tshaneni, Mhlume (a mill town) and then Tambankulu Estate. You will then get to a T junction with an army check-point nearby. (This is not for you! They are searching vehicles from Mozambique!) Turn Right (South) and cross the Mbuluzi River. After that, keep going south past the mill town of Simunye. You then drive through the Hlane Game reserve so look out for Elephants! Also, look out for our “Mabuda B&B” green signs. After 20km there is the intersection to "Siteki" on the Left. Take this and after 7 kms, you will drive straight through the Foot and Mouth control line, (no need to stop, as you are entering a surveillance area.) 7 km thereafter, you're in Siteki. • Once at the town: Past a filling station on your right, a hotel on your left, take the first right turn you are allowed to take. (The first one being a One-Way) At that turn-off, you will see the sign directing you to Mabuda. (If you get to the Hospital, you've gone much too far!) • You pass over a stop street, and at the little cemetery, turn right, also signposted. Cross the tar road directly and onto a dirt road, (only 1km to go!) over a cattle grille, and you have arrived. The B&Bs are the thatched buildings down on your Left. Make your way to the little park home under the trees where Wits and Ina will welcome you. (If for any reason they are not there, please make your way to Mabuda house nearby.) If at any stage you get lost, wind down your window and in your best English, ask for directions to Mabuda Farm. From Hluhluwe: • On the N2 towards Pongola, look out for a small turn-off, poorly marked "Golela", about 2 km after crossing the Pongola river. (If you get to Pongola town, turn back, you have gone 30km too far!) The Golela/Lavumisa border is 10 km away. • It is very hot at the border but quite relaxed. You will get a slip of paper from the SA customs for your car, no cost. After stamping your passport at departure, the SA police routinely examine your vehicle chassis number and engine number at the boom gate, don't be alarmed! Drive to the Swazi side, fill in an entry form requesting up to 30 days (renewable) . Once your passport is stamped, go to the next counter and pay R50 road levy. You need not declare your camera equipment unless you plan to sell it here! Swazi Customs may look in your car but only in a very casual manner, and you are in Swaziland! If you don't get behind a tour bus, the whole procedure should take less than 15 minutes. The best toilets at the border are on the South African side or at the nearby filling station on the Swazi side. The fuel is often 10% cheaper in Swaziland. • Drive north through Nsoko (34 km) and after 30km, Big Bend, (a sugar milling town.) 6 km past Big Bend, take the turnoff to the right sign-posted "Siteki, Lavumisa". From here the B&B is well signposted!. After 39 km (and some pot holes from the 15 km mark!) you reach a T Junction. Turn Right, signposted "Siteki". You will shortly drive straight through the Foot and Mouth control line, no need to stop. 7 km thereafter, you're in Siteki. • Once at the town: Past a filling station on your right, a hotel on your left, take the first right turn you are allowed to take. (The first one being a One-Way) At that turn-off, you will see the sign directing you to Mabuda. (If you get to the Hospital, you've gone much too far!) • You pass over a stop street, and at the little cemetery, turn right, also signposted. Cross the tar road directly and onto a dirt road, (only 1km to go!) over a cattle grille, and you have arrived. The B&Bs are the thatched buildings down on your Left. Make your way to the little park home under the trees where Wits and Ina will welcome you. (If for any reason they are not there, please make your way to Mabuda house nearby.) If at any stage you get lost, wind down your window and in your best English, ask for directions to Mabuda Farm. From Maputo: • If you are coming from Maputo: Take the road towards Komati, about 15km after Boane, turn Left to Goba. This is a poorly marked road in an area of some mud huts. It is a new road in excellent condition (except for the camber on the mountain pass section- a bit flat!) • Continue past the town of Goba and up the hill to Mhlumeni. You will find the border relaxed. On the Swazi side, fill in an entry form requesting up to 30 days. Once your passport is stamped, go to the next counter and pay R50 road levy, let customs search your car, and you are in Swaziland! The Swazis will ask whether you have meat or any other contraband that may harbour Foot and Mouth Disease! Visa's are not generally required from Europe, Commonwealth countries and North America. They sometimes want you to declare your camera equipment. If you don't get behind a tour bus, the whole procedure should take less than 15 minutes. • It is about 30km to Siteki. You will see our signs near the border. Be prepared to stop at an army checkpoint nearer to Siteki: I think they are looking for imported AK47's! On the outskirts of Siteki, you will find our signboard. • At Siteki, you will get to a T junction, next to the Siteki Hotel; Turn Left and follow our signs from there. Take the first right turn you are allowed to take. (The first one being a One-Way) At that turn-off, you will see the sign directing you to Mabuda. (If you get to the Hospital, you've gone much too far!) • You pass over a stop street, and at the little cemetery, turn right, also signposted. Cross the tar road directly and onto a dirt road, (only 1km to go!) over a cattle grille, and you have arrived. The B&Bs are the thatched buildings down on your Left. Make your way to the little park home under the trees where Wits and Ina will welcome you. (If for any reason they are not there, please make your way to Mabuda house nearby.) If at any stage you get lost, wind down your window and in your best English, ask for directions to Mabuda Farm.
 Border Post Opening Hours:
| Mhlumeni-Goba | 07h00-20h00 | | Golela-Lavumisa | 07h00-22h00 | | Oshoek-Ngwenya | 07h00-20h00 | | Mananga-Bordergate | 07h00-18h00 |
Visas: Nationals of South Africa, USA, Canada, Britain and most other EU Countries are automatically given a visitors stamp in their passports at the border and do not require a separate visa. Residents of other countries should contact the nearest Swaziland Consulate or Embassy for information about visas. Follow the Hornbills: On all routes, as you get closer to the farm, you will see our distinctive signs with the hornbill logo which will guide you to Mabuda.
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