The mission was to find the abandoned Tunnel Camp at the train track tunnels which lead to it!

I found this abandoned Tunnel Camp on maps which seemed to not exists anymore. After doing some research we found that it does still exist, but is out of use. We found the 4x4 route of the Impangele Mountain Lodge Farm leads to these tunnels and campsite. We booked our stay at Impangele Mountain Lodge and off we went to find these tunnels. There was extremely little information on it, so it felt like a real treasure hunt!

We spent the first day scouting the route down into the valley and up the next until we found ourselves at a dead end. To our surprise, there was a Boer War Relic here. At the top of this valley next to the train track was a lookout point built from rocks which were used in the Boer War. Calling it a day, we headed back to base camp and decided to keep searching the next day.

On the 2nd day, we venture up the 4x4 route. After bundu bashing our way through, we got to a point where the road was leading away from the direction we were meant to be going. We turned around and once more backtracked down the valley. On our third attempt, we finally found the right route!

We finally found the tunnels which I have only seen one image of before and after lots of searching I found them! The smallest tunnel through which you can drive is dated to 1876. This is seemingly the oldest train tunnel in Southern Africa. Alongside that one is a secondary tunnel dated to 1929 which was built to accommodate the larger locomotives. Down the road from that, we found the Tunnel Camp. This is seemingly the remains of what used to be a train station, in the middle of nowhere! Sadly it is all been abandoned, but the facilities are still there in ruins.

It was absolutely amazing to find these relics which seem to now be all abandoned and I am glad I could find them and shed some light on them once more!

These are all accessed via Impangele Moutain Lodge and all on their land (We think). There are many questions left unanswered and I shall try and get some more information regarding all of this!

Our stay at Impangele Mountian Lodge was great! The cabins are neat and tidy and the whole place is under new management. Craig and Linda are planning to tidy up the place and get it up and going once more! They are planning to tidy up the 4x4 route and other routes on the farm as well as introduce the Tunnel Camp and some extra Wild Camping spots. Impangele Moutain Lodge and Farm is also part of the Roscan Sanctum and the money goes towards Roscan. I hope they bring these historic spots into the light and take care of them as well!

If you have any more information about these sites, please let us know in the comments below!

Impangele Mountain Lodge:
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Roscan Sanctum:
http://roscan.co.za/

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