a day in SODWANA BAY
Welcome to the north eastern coastline of South Africa! Sodwana Bay is arguably the best scuba diving destination in South Africa and is situated 4 hours drive north of Durban. We have been coming here for over 20 years and have loved every trip! This time we dive with Louis Olivier and Pisces dive charters, we visit the Sodwana Bay market where we enjoy true Sodwana cones and we end our trip on the shores of Lake Sibaya.
This was truly a challenging film to put together. Not only is it our first 4K film, but it includes loads of underwater footage - a first for us. The weather was very unpredictable and although we had some bangers, some of the drone shots were really hard to nail! Thank you for your patience and your continued support!
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S5 E10: First Quarter - Hitchhiking from Sodwana Bay, South Africa to Ponta do Oura, Mozambique
I do have a little bit of a plan when I start off somewhere, but I do my best to move forward free of expectation. I make an educated guess, and visualize a desired future. Somehow, things seem to work out. So long as you accept what comes. Still, the beauty of this journey never ceases to maze me.
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SOUTH AFRICA Top 20 Tourist Places | Cape Town Tourism | Robben Island Attraction
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Kruger National Park, in northeastern South Africa, is one of Africa’s largest game reserves. Its high density of wild animals includes the Big 5: lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and buffalos. Hundreds of other mammals make their home here, as do diverse bird species such as vultures, eagles and storks. Mountains, bush plains and tropical forests are all part of the landscape.
Cape Town is a port city on South Africa’s southwest coast, on a peninsula beneath the imposing Table Mountain. Slowly rotating cable cars climb to the mountain’s flat top, from which there are sweeping views of the city, the busy harbor and boats heading for Robben Island, the notorious prison that once held Nelson Mandela, which is now a living museum.
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is a vast wildlife preserve in the Kalahari Desert region of Botswana and South Africa, bordering Namibia to the west. It’s characterized by red dunes and dry rivers. Wildlife includes migrating herds of wildebeest and springbok, plus predators like raptors and black-maned Kalahari lions. Various lodges and wildnerness camps offer game-viewing drives and guided walks with park rangers.
Stellenbosch is a university town in South Africa's Western Cape province. It's surrounded by the vineyards of the Cape Winelands and the mountainous nature reserves of Jonkershoek and Simonsberg. The town's oak-shaded streets are lined with cafes, boutiques and art galleries. Cape Dutch architecture gives a sense of South Africa's Dutch colonial history, as do the Village Museum's period houses and gardens.
The Drakensberg is the name given to the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau. The Great Escarpment reaches its greatest elevation in this region – 2,000 to 3,482 metres. It is located in South Africa and Lesotho.
The Garden Route is a 300-kilometre stretch of the south-eastern coast of South Africa which extends from Mossel Bay in the Western Cape to the Storms River in the Eastern Cape.
iSimangaliso Wetland Park is a huge protected area along the coast of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province. The park’s centrepiece is the vast Lake St. Lucia, home to large numbers of hippos, crocodiles, pelicans and flamingos. Elephants, giraffes and leopards inhabit the grasslands and forests of the nearby Western Shores and Charters Creek areas. To the north, Sodwana Bay is known for its colourful coral reefs.
Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometres west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for seal island. Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.08 km².
North Beach is one of the beaches of Durban, South Africa. It is situated north of the harbour and bluff, in between Bay of Plenty and Dairy Beach on Durban's Golden Mile. North Beach is one of the main beaches in Durban and is cared for by the Durban Surf Lifesaving Club.
Johannesburg, South Africa's biggest city and capital of Gauteng province, began as a 19th-century gold-mining settlement. Its sprawling Soweto township was once home to Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Mandela’s former residence is now the Mandela House museum. Other Soweto museums that recount the struggle to end segregation include the somber Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill, a former prison complex.
The Cape Winelands District Municipality, formerly the Boland District Municipality, is a district municipality located in the Boland region of the Western Cape province of South Africa. As of 2011, it had a population of 787,490. The largest towns in the municipality are Paarl, Worcester, Stellenbosch and Wellington.
Hermanus is a seaside town southeast of Cape Town, in South Africa’s Western Cape Province. It's known as a whale-watching destination. Beaches include Voëlklip Beach and the broad Grotto Beach, overlooking Walker Bay. The Old Harbour Museum is a site encompassing the old harbour, a fishermen’s village and the Whale House Museum. The latter has informative displays and a suspended skeleton of a whale.
Knysna is a town with 68,659 inhabitants as of 2011 in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and is part of the Garden Route. It lies 34 degrees south of the equator, and is 55 kilometres east from the city of George on the N2 highway, and 33 kilometres west of the town of Plettenberg Bay on the same road.
Oudtshoorn is a town in the Klein Karoo area of South Africa’s Western Cape. It’s known for its ostrich farms and rests along the Route 62 wine route. The central C.P. Nel Museum traces the ostrich-feather boom era and houses a working synagogue. The nearby Cango Wildlife Ranch is a conservation park offering animal petting. To the north, the Cango Caves are a 20-million-year-old network of limestone chambers.
Kwazulu Natal - South Africa
Kwazulu Natal - South African nature that makes anyone wander to stay in this beautiful place forever.
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Grahamstown Tourist Attractions: 5 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Grahamstown? Check out our Grahamstown Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Grahamstown.
Top Places to visit in Grahamstown:
Cathedral of St Michael and St George, St Patrick's Catholic Church, Provost Prison, Observatory Museum, National English Literary Museum
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World Class Scuba Diving - South Africa, Sodwana bay
Sodwana Bay is a bay in South Africa on the KwaZulu Natal north coast, between St. Lucia and Lake Sibhayi. It is in the Sodwana Bay National Park, and the Maputaland Marine Reserve, and is a popular recreational diving destination.
Being in a Marine Reserve, the coral and marine life are just amazing and well reserved.
Sodwana bay located not far from my hometown where I grew up and it's just so great that I can share this video and amazing experience with you.
This trip we dived 6 of the many many dive spots at Sodwana bay.
We dived 2 mile, 5 mile, 7mile and 9mile.
At Sodwana Bay the reef profile tends to be flat with pinnacles, shallow drop offs, swim-throughs and gullies that range in depth from 8m to 100m and are suitable to novice and experienced divers alike. There is something for everyone!
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KwaZulu-Natal Legendary Place : SOUTH AFRICA TRAVEL
Beyond the Dragon Mountains. View the video clip and then go to satvchannel.com to access the documentary..... Ghosts, water monsters, heroic battles and the spirit of King Shaka, all weave through the landscape of KwaZulu Natal - a land of precipitous mountains, dramatic gorges and verdant green valleys. Share in encounters with the supernatural and explore legends that live on to this day.
Must do South Africa - 2 - Scuba diving Sodwana
Part 2 of Must do South Africa.
Scuba Diving in Sodwana Bay
Part3 : Hluhluwe national park & Hippo's in St. Lucia
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The Most Beautiful Beaches in South Africa
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South Africa is one of the beautiful provinces in the African Continent that is blessed with lots of rich history and some breathtaking places. Some of these places are the beaches. These are the most beautiful beaches in South Africa.
- Diaz Beach
- Sodwana Beach
- Muizenberg
- Cape Vidal
- Gordon’s Bay
- Clifton
- Nahoon Beach
- North Beach
- Santos Beach
- Camps Bay
Sodwana Bay - South Africa amazing diving on 2 mile reef with GoPro
Sodwana Bay in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa is Classified as one of the top dive sites in the world this 50 km reef complex boasts around 95 species of hard and soft coral, sponges, other invertebrates and around 1200 fish species. It has a amazing coral reef with plenty of beautiful fish and it is also home to giant turtles. I am so glad I had my GoPro with me.