KwaZulu Natal Accommodation & Travel Guide

SOUTH AFRICA Eastern Cape Free State Gauteng Kruger Park Kwazulu Natal Limpopo Mpumalanga North West Northern Cape Western Cape Cape Town Metro AFRICA Botswana Mozambique Namibia Swaziland Zimbabwe Advertising	KwaZulu-Natal is a meeting place. It has witnessed the meeting of Africa with Europe, the Zulu kingdom with the birth of a new European endeavour, and now witnesses the meeting of the tourist with a place of multiple experiences. The principal town of this province is Durban, the continent's biggest and busiest port, and a city that is home to over three million people, is the country's third largest. If it is history you seek, a short visit to the 'heritage city', Pietermaritzburg, and the surrounding midlands will provide enough evidence of the multi-cultural origins of the province's inhabitants. The provincial capital, Pietermaritzburg has an undeniably British character and its modern epitome of the old colonial town. A short trip further inland takes the visitor to towns such as Wartburg, no less colonial or Teutonic but entirely German in nature. Further north into Zululand, history takes the form of the many landmarks and tributes to the great Zulu nation and their indomitable leader, Shaka. Original dwellings, kraals and burial sites can be visited; the beating heart of perhaps the sub-continent's most widely known culture. Adjoining Zululand are the famous battlesites of the many wars that have scarred the graceful Natal countryside. The Battlefields Route takes visitors on a trip through a history less auspicious but over-whelmingly important, these are the fields of dreams carved out of nightmares, the promise of peace on the playground of war. Going further back than Nguni and European settlement, one will encounter in KwaZulu-Natal the remnants of the Khoi-San culture in artwork found, most notably, in the caves and rock shelters of the Drakensberg. And then there are holidays. From the sparkling South Coast and its vacation towns massaging the neck of a coastline of safe beaches, surly vegetation and climatic temperance, the province moves inland and across areas of different altitude, climate and vegetation. Within a day's drive are the wonderful vistas and crisp air of the Drakensberg Range, the gorgeous valleys of the midlands, the corrugated verdancy of Zululand and the wetland paradise of the northeastern coas, made up of wetlands, swamps, mangroves and esturine systems of St Lucia, Sodwana Bay and Kosi Bay. These make up the Maputaland Region, an area where the slow recession of the Indian Ocean has produced a waterworld of cosmic beauty.	click to view map DURBAN & NORTH COAST Amanzimtoti Ballito Blythedale Beach Durban Durban North Durban Westville Hillcrest Mount Edgecombe Salt Rock Umdloti Umhlanga MIDLANDS & NORTHERN NATAL Dargle Drakensberg Central Drakensberg North Drakensberg South Dundee Greytown Hilton Howick Kokstad Ladysmith Lions River Newcastle Nottingham Road Paulpietersburg Pietermaritzburg Vryheid SOUTH COAST Illovo Beach Margate Mtwalume Park Rynie Port Edward Port Shepstone Ramsgate Shelly Beach Southbroom Southport ZULULAND & MAPUTALAND Empangeni Eshowe Hluhluwe Mkuze Mtubatuba Mtunzini Pongola Richards Bay Sodwana Bay & Surrounds St Lucia
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