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Elephant Coast
Certainly one of South Africa’s most beautiful and well-preserved places, this narrow strip of land is approximately 200 kilometres long and 70 kilometres wide. It is home to an implausible 21 different eco-systems. An abundance of African elephants, game, fish and rare species of animals, birds, trees and plants live in an environment unchanged by time. The Elephant Coast provides the perfect mix of adventure, comfort and a unique experience of African elephants in unspoilt Africa. This place is relatively unknown to tourists but not to worry, it’s not difficult to find guides who know it like the back of their hands.
They call it the African Elephant Coast because it is home to South Africa’s largest herd of indigenous African elephants, living and foraging in the sand forests as they have done since the dawn of the continent. Impenetrable evergreen forests of towering fig trees stand in an abundant undergrowth of ferns and wild orchids hanging from the trees. The white sand of the undulating landscape is dotted with palm savannahs and thousands of wild date and lala palms. An exquisite scene plays home to myriads of beautiful birds where mountainous sand dunes are background to swamp forests with large raffias and tangled masses of greenery.
The Elephant Coast forms the north-east region of South Africa’s unique KwaZulu-Natal Province, stretching northward from Lake St Lucia (a world heritage site), to the borders of Swaziland and Mozambique. To the east the elephants’ habitat is bounded by the Indian Ocean, where mile after mile of glittering beaches are lapped by azure waters and creaming surf – this is where raw natural beauty teeming marine life meets lush sub-tropical vegetation.
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