KwaTHABISILE – Place of happiness. In Gauteng and in the heart of the Dinokeng Nature Reserve, 1 hr from Johannesburg and OR Tambo International Airport and 30 min from Pretoria, is a game lodge surrounded by wildlife – roaming a 200-hectare game reserve in the crest of the Leeuwkloof Valley with magnificent sunset views.
Ten minutes east of Knysna lies a secluded cove boasting a pristine beach, a quiet estuary, a large variety of indigenous flora and fauna, and an eclectic collection of classic beach houses and fanciful “castles”. Noetzie remains a peaceful, somewhat isolated place but has now become famous worldwide because of its castles. Populated by a small group of permanent residents, many of the Noetzie properties are still owned by the original families. Originally known as Noetziekamma, a Khoisan phrase for ‘dark water’
Umhlanga Rocks village began on a plantation belonging to a Scottish sugar cane magnate. A beach cottage was built on a rocky headland looking out to sea with a view of a long wide golden beach. His daughter built the Oyster Box Hotel in the 1930s, in the graceful English colonial style, with surrounding heavenly gardens of flowering shrubs and trees. The vegetation in Umhlanga is lush and verdant. A lighthouse built in 1953, is next to the Oyster Box swimming pool. It flashes every night along Umhlanga beach and the rocks out to the ocean. Ships had been mistaking the Umgeni River for Durban harbour and hitting the rocks.
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