A very distinctive slice of Africa, the Bigger St Lucia Wetland Park presents ecotourists some of the most assorted wildlife and out of doors experiences possible.
Moreover Lake St Lucia – a exclusive, 38 000 ha expanse of lake, islands and estuary – the park incorporates an astonishing wide variety of habitats ranging from the Ubombo mountains to grasslands, forests, wetlands, mangroves and vegetated dunes, with magnificent beach locations and coral reefs.
The Better St Lucia Wetland Park stretches together the Zululand coastline from Mapelane in the south to Sodwana in the north.
From Mapelane the park stretches northwards, incorporating St Lucia Sport and Marine Reserves, Fake Bay park, Cape Vidal, Sodwana Bay, Mkuzi Sport Reserve and the Maputaland Maritime Reserve.
The 260 000 ha park is internationally recognised and a Environment Heritage Website.
This diversity offers rise to a multiplicity of fauna and flora, unrivalled everywhere in South Africa. It supports an abundance of Nile crocodile and hippo, as effectively as rhino (each black and white), elephant, buffalo, giraffe, waterbuck, kudu, nyala, impala, duiker and reedbuck, amongst a host of other species.
Even though swimming in the lake is prohibited because of to the existence of crocodile, recreational selections abound.
You can dive on coral reefs or stroll for miles along golden shorelines discover wonderful dunes and wander as a result of magical coastal forests or roam across grassy plains as the wind carries the whistling calls of reedbuck on the warn.
You can test your hand at canoeing though experiencing a wilderness path, and if snorkeling, angling or boating take your extravagant, this is the place to indulge you.
Migrant whales cavorting along the coast, leatherback and loggerhead turtles, nesting on the beaches at night time in summer time, incorporate to the park’s unique points of interest.
