lumoplank / Wikimedia Commons (CC0)Beaches & Coast
Nearly 3,000 km of coastline where two oceans meet — Blue Flag beaches, penguins and whale routes.
Beaches & CoastKwaZulu-NatalBallito — Willard Beach
Warm Indian Ocean swimming, a current Blue Flag beach, and the WSL Ballito Pro — packing family fun and world-tour surfing onto one stretch of Dolphin Coast sand.
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Beaches & CoastWestern CapeBoulders Beach
Share a sheltered white-sand cove with a colony of African penguins.
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Beaches & CoastWestern CapeClifton Beaches
Four white-sand coves stacked below Lion's Head, divided by giant granite boulders and cupped in a wind shadow that shuts out Cape Town's south-easter — beside Atlantic water cold enough to make you gasp.
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Beaches & CoastKwaZulu-NatalDurban Golden Mile
Durban's warm-water beachfront and buzzing promenade.
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Beaches & CoastEastern CapeHole in the Wall
A wave-bored archway pierces a dolerite-capped island of shale at the mouth of the Mpako River — the Xhosa call it esiKhaleni, the place of sound.
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Beaches & CoastWestern CapeKnysna
A Garden Route town wrapped around a tidal lagoon, where the sea funnels between the towering quartzite cliffs of the Knysna Heads into one of South Africa's most important estuaries.
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Beaches & CoastWestern CapePlettenberg Bay
Southern right whales calve within sight of golden Garden Route sand at Plettenberg Bay — one of only a handful of coastlines worldwide accredited as a Whale Heritage Site.
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Beaches & CoastKwaZulu-NatalSodwana Bay
A diving mecca on KwaZulu-Natal's remote Maputaland coast, where some of the world's most southerly coral reefs shelter more than 1,200 fish species inside a UNESCO World Heritage wetland.
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