Includes FREE planning and background information. KwaZulu-Natal has its metropolitan heart in the port of Durban and its nearby historic capital, Pietermaritzburg. The beaches along this coast attract local holidaymakers. Head north and you enter Zululand and the Elephant Coast. Here is the alluring iSimangaliso Wetland Park, encompassing remote wilderness areas. Zululand is home to some of Africa’s most evocative traditional settlements and Zulu cultural sites. Around the towns of Ladysmith and Dundee, and you enter another realm: the historic heartland where the history of the province was thrashed out on the Battlefields during the Anglo-Zulu and Anglo-Boer Wars. The province’s border in the far west, encompasses the heritage-listed uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park with awesome peaks, unforgettable vistas and excellent hiking opportunities.