

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Cobham: Venice Cave via Lakes Cave and Glade Cave
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 am – Sun, 08 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Cobham: Venice Cave via Pholela river valley &amp; then into the Nhlabeni river valley via Nutcracker &amp; Lakes Cave &amp; Glade Cave. Return via Weaver Cave, middle route &amp; Siphongweni Rock.
35 km 530 m
Contact: Dave on Telegram 074-5803511 dave@landlubbers.co.za
Rating 3.5
 
NB: Grand Traverse training hike with solid distance. Great opportunity to tick off some of the best Southern Drakensberg caves out there.
 
Further information:
The best route to it is via Lakes Cave.  Once at Lakes Cave, you climb up to the magnificent tarns and then follow the upper contour path westwards until it disappears above what is a major river valley.  Strangely, according to the map this is not the Mzimkhulwana River but one of its major tributaries.  Even more confusing is the presence of an unmarked cave (Glade Cave) at the bottom end of this valley of about the same size and quality as Venice Cave.  If you descend into this river valley, cross the river and follow it down past Glade Cave to where it runs into the Mzimkhulwana River (here only a stream and considerably smaller than the tributary), you should find a faint path which you can try to follow up the remainder of the Mzimkhulwana.
 
This path appears and disappears in progressively more difficult terrain, but if you persevere you cannot fail to arrive at Venice Cave.  The maps indicate two Venice Caves, but the first one is up on the left of the narrowing little valley and is quite uninhabitable. About 100 metres higher up the valley, around a tight little bend, you will find the habitable Venice Cave on the right.  About 400 metres over the rise in front of the cave is Chameleon Cave. If approaching from the direction of Wilson’s Cave, Venice Cave is at the far end of the Sea Serpent.
 
The cave overlooks a steep, grassy hillside which does not provide much of an outlook.  However, there is a spectacular view upstream of the Minaret.  A short climb to the top of the little ridge opposite the main cave will provide a vantage point from which you can study the escarpment from the Minaret southwards towards Bushman’s Nek, and out over the lower berg towards The Island and Little Bamboo Mountain. Slightly downstream from the cave, on the hillside opposite, is a small rock formation that looks like a seated mouse.
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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/howick/cobham-venice-cave-via-lakes-cave-and-glade-cave/200029593869109
- **Event Categories**: workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 12

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Howick
- **state**: NL
- **country**: South Africa
- **location**: Cobham Nature Reserve, uKhahlamba Drakensberg World Heritage Site
- **lat**: -29.704442
- **long**: 29.415533
- **full address**: Cobham Nature Reserve, uKhahlamba Drakensberg World Heritage Site, Kwa Sani, Howick, South Africa

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: MBC Mountain Backpackers Club (https://allevents.in/org/mbc-mountain-backpackers-club/25757804)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 08:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Cobham Nature Reserve, uKhahlamba Drakensberg World Heritage Site, Kwa Sani, Howick, South Africa
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** MBC Mountain Backpackers Club
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Cobham: Venice Cave via Lakes Cave and Glade Cave ?
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