Natural features

iSimangaliso Wetland Park

South Africa KwaZulu-Natal Mtubatuba

iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Photo: Darren Glanville from Acle, Norfolk, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A UNESCO site of lakes, swamps, dunes and coral reefs, with hippos and crocodiles in the estuary at St Lucia, turtles nesting on the beaches in summer, and diving at Sodwana Bay.


Hluhluwe-iMfolozi, the park that saved the white rhino, is nearby.

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