Directions to Karoo Lodge at Samara

  • Exit from the Port Elizabeth Airport and follow the signs to Grahamstown/N2.
  • Continue along the N2 freeway for approximately 6 kms and then take the off-ramp numbered 751A marked Cape Town N2.
  • Follow the N2 and take the off-ramp numbered 748 marked Uitenhage R75.
  • At the top of the off-ramp you must turn right at the second set of traffic lights.
  • This will take you onto the R75 traveling towards Uitenhage / Graaff Reinet.
  • Follow signs toward Graaff-Reinet by-passing Uitenhage.
  • Continue along the R75 towards Graaff-Reinet for 258 km.
  • Approximately 23 km before Graaff-Reinet you will reach a staggered T-junction marked R63 Pearston/Somerset East.
  • This is a tar road (do not confuse with the gravel road also marked Pearston).
  • Turn right and drive for about 5.5 km when you will see the Samara sign on the left. (signposted Samara/Petersburg/Mount Camdeboo).
  • Turn left and follow the road (now gravel) through the lodge gates.
  • Follow the road through the reserve for 3km to the first electric gate (please call the lodge from here to let them know you are there).
  • It is then 12.5km to the second, double electric gate.
  • From there it is 2.2km to the MANOR HOUSE Reception turn-off and 5.4km to KAROO LODGE Reception turnoff.
  • This is about a 30 minute drive.
  • Drive north on the N2 almost all the way to Port Elizabeth.
  • About 40 kilometres after the Jeffrey’s Bay signs, take the R334 to Uitenhage.
  • In Uitenhage, follow the signs to the R75 to Graaff Reinet.
  • Stay on the R75 through Wolwefontein and Jansenville towards Graaff-Reinet.
  • Approximately 23 km before Graaff-Reinet you will reach a staggered T-junction marked R63 Pearston/Somerset East.
  • This is a tar road (do not confuse with the gravel road also marked Pearston).
  • Turn right and drive for about 5.5 km when you will see the Samara sign on the left. (signposted Samara/Petersburg/Mount Camdeboo)
  • Turn left and follow the road (now gravel) through the lodge gates.
  • From Heatherton Towers / Kwandwe Reception turn left onto the R344 unpaved dirt road and travel 2km west to the Kwandwe Gate.
  • Exit Kwandwe and, keeping left, travel 14km to the R350 tarmac road.
  • Turn right onto R350 and travel 72km over Carlisle Bridge to Bedford
  • On entering Bedford turn left onto R63 for 21km to T-junction on N10.
  • Turn left on N10 and travel south for 19km.
  • Turn right at Cookhouse onto the R63 and travel 24km to Somerset East .
  • Travel a further 52km on the R63 to Pearston.
  • Carry on through Pearston on the R63 for 51km.
  • Turn right onto Petersburg/Samara Road (unpaved dirt road).
  • Travel 3km to the first electric gate. Please phone 049 891 0880 and inform the lodge that you are on the property.
  • Travel 12.5km to the 2nd double electric gate and then 2.2km to the Manor House Reception turn-off or 5.4km to the Karoo Lodge Reception.
  • It is about a 30-40 minute drive on the unpaved dirt road.