Travel on the N4 via the Toll road (Rands, Dollars and Meticais accepted). About 10 kilometers after the toll road you will get the Boane off ramp. Turn left of the highway and immediately right over the bridge. Your are on your way to Boane. Keep on straight until you get to Boane. (Do not turn right at the T junction before Boane, leading to Namaache, Swaziland, unless you want to go back to Swaziland). Travel into Boane and turn right at the T junction from right. (soccer/parade field on left). Turn right and travel straight. Be careful for traffic. Travel over the low water bridge (you will see people washing themselves, their clothes and collecting drinking water at the same place in the river) Travel for about 1.5kms and turn left of tar road onto dirt road. (The dirt road is on a wide corner and can easily be missed the first time). The next 50 odd kilometers are the worse part of the road. The road is not in a good condition. Be careful for sand edges and keep your speed down to 80Km/h max. In the rainy season this road becomes slippery and must be carefully approached. Many skilled drivers have overturned their vehicles here when the road was wet and they skidded of the road. Travel until you get to a T junction. Turn right onto a beautiful tar road leading to Bella Vista (heaven knows where this road comes from). You will see the most beautiful fever trees next to the road. Travel past Bella Vista on the left hand side. As the crow flies you are now 27kms from the sea, although it will take you another few hours before your first glimpse.
The road is getting really interesting now. You will be stopped at Salamanga by an customs official. Use the phrase ?Non falla Portuguese?, smile friendly and say Ponta Malongane Tourist when asked. Just travel straight through the Elephant reserve. Although there are around 200 Elephants in this massive reserve although the biggest portion of an Elephant I have seen in the past 6 years was its dung.
In the reserve you will get to a T junction. Turn right. Remember when you came back the same way to turn left here (mental note) as many traveler (writer included) have failed to do so.
Keep on traveling. You will get to grasslands and the road will become seriously challenging. Drop your tyre pressure to anything between 1.8 and 2.2 bar, depending on how brave you feel.
You may find traffic in the same direction on the same path as you. Make sure that if you stop to make way that it is on a hard patch and preferably a bit downhill. You will also find sometimes more than one sand road to take. All roads here goes to the same place. Play the lotto and choose the one looking the best to you. (You will be wrong anyway and ended up struggling through deep sand while old bakkies packed with smiling Mozambiquans will whisked passed you on one of the other adjacent roads). Be carefull in the heavy raining season for large water holes in the road, as it may be deeper than expected(as a well know seasoned traveller, whose name will not be mentioned here, experienced when he saw his Land Rover dissapeared into a deep waterhole a few years back.
The small sand road ends in a road leading to Zitundu , a small town close to Malongane. Turn left here on the tar road and tarvel east.
Travel until you get to the next waypoint. This is the most difficult part of the route as you have to turn right of the tar road into the field. This is just past the Vleiland.
This is the time to engage diff lock if you are in trouble. Follow any one of the numerous sand roads until you get to a few stalls shelling curios and artifacts. Turn left here. Travel for another kilometer or so until you get to Malongane.
