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The Zululand is the Zulu-dominated area of what is today northern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It stretches from the Tugela River in the south to the Pongola River in the North. Today Zululand is home to South Africa’s most game parks, wilderness areas and protected wetlands.
The climate ranges from hot and humid along the coastline to cooler temperatures inland.
The Zululand gives you the opportunity to feel the “living culture” of the Zulus and to gain an insight look into their turbulent past. If you go there, visit the battlefields and all the other historic places of the Zulu past.
St. Lucia
St. Lucia, the town, is the most southern entrance to the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park, which is one if the South African UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The town is situated about 300km north of Durban and approximately the same south of the Kingdom of Swaziland. For some info about Lake St. Lucia click here. A pic of the whole Estuary can be found here.
[14-05-07]
South Africa's first World Heritage Site, the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, has been renamed in an effort to give the park a name that better reflects its unique identity and sense of place. The new name is iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced on Sunday. link
Diving
Sodwana Bay is one of the top diving spots in Southern Africa with. Thecoral reef has one of the world's highest numbers of tropical fish species – second only to the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia.
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How to get there?
It is actually quite a mission to get to Sodwana Bay without a car.
One alternative is this shuttle service from Durbs
Where to stay?
see the tra:guide hostel list South Africa (click on KwaZulu Natal)
Check http://www.zulu.org.za/kzn for more information about the Zululand
Check http://www.zulucam.org for web cam pictures from the Tembe Elephant Park
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Trips into the
Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve
To get a list of tour operators in the Reserve click here.
See the tra:guide trips & tours forum for some safari reviews.
Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park
The Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park is one of the oldest Game Reserve in Africa. It was established in 1895. It is a very historic ground where the founders started the park, because it used to be the hunting ground of the famous Zulu kings Shaka and Dingiswayo.
Since Hluhluwe (in the north) and Umfolozi (in the south) became one park, the National Park has a size of 96000 hectares. The park is home to the Big 5 and about a fifth of the world’s black and white rhino population.
The park is located in central Zululand. Tours into the National Park can be booked from Durban, St. Lucia or from the backpackers around the park.
For more detailed information check the official website of the Hluhluwe Game Reserve and the Imfolozi Game Reserve.
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