Kaia Homestead

03/09/2024

An Eco Logically Minded Homestead situated in the heart of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park - a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Sodwana Bay - KwaZulu Natal - South Africa

www.sodwanago.com

066 517 1868

[email protected]

31/08/2024

Bruno, Head of Security having a nap between shifts.

24/08/2024

SodwanaGo on an adventure?

Tiura and trips in and around Sodwana Bay

Get in touch

22/08/2024

Home away from home

An Eco Logically Minded Lodge situated in the heart of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park - a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

We offer 3 different types of accommodation. Depending on the size of your group we have on offer, an 8 sleeper house, a 4 sleeper cottage & a 3 sleeper room .

All accommodation has an open plan kitchen & lounge as well as braai facilities outside.

A 5 min drive will get you to the entrance of the Sodwana Pay National Park, a tranquil bay that offers wild coastline landscapes, sensational scuba diving and an abundance of wildlife.

17/08/2024

Each year, humpback whales embark on one of nature's most remarkable migrations, journeying from the icy waters of Antarctica to the warm, tropical seas and are seen daily in Sodwana Bay

This epic voyage, spanning thousands of miles, is driven by their need to breed and give birth in the more temperate and safer waters.

As they traverse the vast ocean, they navigate using a combination of environmental cues and sophisticated echolocation, showcasing their incredible endurance and adaptability. Their migration not only highlights their impressive physical capabilities but also the intricate connections between different marine ecosystems.

SodwanaGo see some Whales in Sodwana Bay?

12/08/2024

Sodwana Bay National Park is a narrow strip of forested sand dunes located along the east coast. Proclaimed a national park in the 1950s, it is frequented by anglers and divers. Sodwana is situated in the Maputaland Marine Protected Area and is the only recreational scuba diving area along the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park (now renamed to iSimangaliso

coastline. Classified as one of the top dive sites in the world, the park is visited by some 35 000 scuba divers per year. The bay is near the southern end of the tropical western Indo-Pacific marine ecoregion, and reef-building corals are present. The 50 km (31 mi) reef complex is the habitat of a wide diversity of resident and migratory species. Several submarine canyons cut into the edge of the continental shelf, which is very close to the shoreline. It was in one of these that on 27 November 2000 that a resident population of coelacanths was discovered.

07/08/2024

An Eco Logically Minded Homestead situated in the heart of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park - a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
We offer 3 different types of accommodation. Depending on the size of your group we have on offer, an 8 sleeper house, a 4 sleeper cottage & a 3 sleeper room .

All accommodation has an open plan kitchen & lounge as well as braai facilities outside.

A 5 min drive will get you to the entrance of the Sodwana Pay National Park, a tranquil bay that offers wild coastline landscapes, sensational scuba diving and an abundance of wildlife.

[email protected]
066 517 1868

07/08/2024

An Eco Logically Minded Homestead situated in the heart of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park - a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
We offer 3 different types of accommodation. Depending on the size of your group we have on offer, an 8 sleeper house, a 4 sleeper cottage & a 3 sleeper room .
All accommodation has an open plan kitchen & lounge as well as braai facilities outside.
A 5 min drive will get you to the entrance of the Sodwana Pay National Park, a tranquil bay that offers wild coastline landscapes, sensational scuba diving and an abundance of wildlife.
[email protected]
066 517 1868

29/07/2024

Too cute my New found friend

A Herald or Red-lipped Snake (Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia) from Gauteng. This snake is common in suburban gardens, especially those with water features or fish ponds. They feed largely on toads. The venom of the Herald Snake is mild and has little effect on humans and pets like dogs and cats.

15/07/2024

"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing"
Alan Watts

08/07/2024

A Resident African Fish Eagle at South Africa's biggest Freshwater Lake in South Africa. Lake Sibaya

Tours Available on request

066 517 1868

Kaia Homestead - Sodwana Bay - RSA

08/07/2024

2 years in the making of the extremely unique pineapple .

A pineapple plant can stay alive and continue giving fruits for up to 50 years.

Along with asparagus (20 years) that's a super perennial

All organic Ananas comosus

07/07/2024

Kaia Homestead - Sodwana Bay RSA

066 517 1868

[email protected]

Also available through Booking.com and airbnb

06/07/2024

Sodwana go to the beach?

Kaia Homestead

19/06/2024

A Piece of peace - Maputaland

Sodwana Bay - South Africa, this is why I live here

Kaia Homestead offers affordable and comfortable accommodation in the heart of the Isimangaliso Wetland Park.

Set in the lush coastal forest, surrounded by incredible sights and sounds.

For enquiries please reach out.

066 517 1868

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19/06/2024

A Piece of peace - Maputaland

Sodwana Bay - South Africa, this is why I live here

Kaia Homestead offers affordable and comfortable accommodation in the heart of the Isimangaliso Wetland Park.

Set in the lush coastal forest, surrounded by incredible sights and sounds.

Photography / Videography workshops, Safari Tours, Birding Tours available to surrounding game reserves as well as boat safaris in Kosi Bay Lake System

For enquiries please reach out.

066 517 1868

🌱🌞🌊🪻🌳🐕🦈🐋🐬🐟🦓🦏🦛🦀🐞🐒🐸

12/06/2024

Sodwana Go on an Adventure?

09/06/2024

No two people see the exact same rainbow

If you and a friend are standing next to one another looking at a rainbow, you’re still not seeing the exact same rainbow! That’s because a rainbow has not physical presence; a rainbow is a purely optical phenomenon, and its appearance – its precise shape, arc, and the width of its color bands – will be slightly different according to the eye of the beholder.

That means there's one more amazing fact about rainbows we could add to the list: every rainbow is unique to you

31/05/2024

My soul and I went to the great sea to bathe.  And when we reached the shore, we went about looking for a hidden and lonely place.

Khalil Gibran

27/05/2024

Slowly Drifting

07/05/2024

Hey! Sodwana see Sodwana?

30/04/2024

Did you know that the south coast is often referred to as the Hibiscus coast? This is not only because of the exotic Hibiscus we see growing there but because South Africa has around 60 indigenous species of Hibiscus most of which are found in the KwaZulu Natal region.

17/04/2024

Awake! For morning in the bowl of night
Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight
And Lo, the hunter of the east has caught
The sultan's Turret in a noose of light

Omar Khayyam

12/04/2024

It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.

She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.

And in front of her,
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.

But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.

08/04/2024

Sodwana go find the thief?

All sorts frequenting the homestead.

08/04/2024

An Eco Logically Minded Lodge situated in the heart of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park - a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

We offer 3 different types of accommodation. Depending on the size of your group we have on offer, an 8 sleeper house, a 4 sleeper cottage & a 3 sleeper room .

All accommodation has an open plan kitchen & lounge as well as braai facilities outside.

A 5 min drive will get you to the entrance of the Sodwana Pay National Park, a tranquil bay that offers wild coastline landscapes, sensational scuba diving and an abundance of wildlife.

[email protected]

066 517 1868

01/06/2023

SodwanaGO Meet Boy George?

Private Photography Excursions &
Nature Walks in Sodwana Bay available on request.


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13/03/2023

The trumpeter hornbill prefers warm evergreen forests. Coastal forests and riverine forests are typical habitats. Diet consists mainly of fruits and berries, they love eating Papaya, with various invertebrates acting as a supplement.

Kaia Lodge Birding Tours

23/02/2023

White-Crested Helmut Shrike ((Prionops plumatus)

It is a gregarious bird and is found in small, active parties that are always on the move as they forage among the foliage or on the ground. They chatter noisily to one another as they move through their territory.

16/02/2023