Lion and Leopard Lodge is a breakaway to nature your last stop before you enter Mozambique and your first stop when you return from Mozambique.
Lion and Leopard Lodge is ideal for if you want a break away . We offers Full Luxury unsweet air-conditioned units with self-catering kitchens . All our units have DSTV with 55inch LED TV`s . The beds in our units have hi quality memory foam matrasses. Our Restaurant at Lion and Leopard is famous for our Tiger Prawn and Portuguese dishes. Lion and Leopard Lodge have a full licensed Bar with an outdoor swimming pool. Our attractions and activities include Tiger Fishing , Game drives into the Kruger National Park, Marloth Park and the Lebombo Mountains. The Kruger National Park’s, Crocodile Bridge Gate is within 8 km from Lion and Leopard Lodge
Komatipoort is a town situated at the confluence of the Crocodile and Komati Rivers in Mpumalanga province, South Africa. The town is 8 km from the Crocodile Bridge Gate into the Kruger Park, and just 5 km from the Mozambique border and 65 km from the Swaziland border.
It is a small, quiet town within the Lowveld with some attractive tree lined streets. It is one of the hottest towns in South Africa where temperatures can reach almost 48°C (47.7 °C (117.9 °F) on 12 December 1944) in the height of summer, but also with a perfect winter climate around 24 °C (75 °F).
Komati' takes its name from the Komati River whose original native Swazi name is Nkomazi, translated as "river of cows". It is where the Crocodile and Komati Rivers meet to flow through the 'Poort' (mountain pass) through the Lebombo Mountains into Mozambique.
In the 1890s Komatipoort of those days was a wild and uproarious construction camp for the railway being built from Lourenco Marques (modern Maputo). Conditions weren’t the best with the area gripped by a malaria epidemic; it was in the zone called 'fever country'.
Between 1900 and 1902 during the Anglo/Boer War, the town was used as a base by Major F Von Steinaecker and his group known as 'Steinaecker's Horse'. They were a bunch of mercenaries and bushwhackers and were recruited by the British in order to fight Boer guerrillas in the bushveld.
Near Komatipoort is the site where the former Mozambique's President Samora Machel died in a plane crash in the Lebombo mountain range, the natural barrier between South Africa and Mozambique. At the site of the accident stands the Samora Machel Monument.
The Nkomati Accord was signed in Komatipoort in 1984.
