MZANZI ISSUE 16

Travel Tips
Bayview
Bayview is located on the edge of the bay
where Portuguese seafarer Bartolomeu
Dias in 1488 became the first European
to make contact with the indigenous
Khoekhoen people of Southern Africa.
Today the beautiful stretch of beach
along Bayview provides a lovely view
of the bustling coastal town of Mossel
Bay across the bay, with Seal Island in
between. During the summer holidays parts
of the beach may have many people on
it, but you’ll always find a secluded spot
somewhere along here.
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Holein-the-Wall
The iconic Hole-in-the-Wall has become something
of a symbol of the Eastern Cape’s breathtakingly
beautiful Wild Coast. Spend a lazy day on this
quiet beach watching the sea suck and gush
though this natural giant hole or explore the
island and its hole or the surrounding beaches
where you will find more cattle than humans
lounging about. Hole in the Wall is situated at
the mouth of the Mpako River, some distance
south of Coffee Bay and about 60km off the
N2 as the crow flies. There’s a nearby village
with hotel and restaurant.
Sodwana
Not exactly a small beach, but certainly very secluded
in every sense of the word…that’s Sodwana Bay
and its miles of golden sandy beaches nestling
along the warm waters of the Indian Ocean.
Sodwana lies within the Sodwana Bay National
Park which in turn forms part of the iSimangaliso
Wetland Park and the Maputaland Marine Reserve in
northern KwaZulu-Natal. It has long been a favourite
with sports fishermen and scuba divers, but now with
the area managed by SANParks and iSimangaliso, it
has so much more to offer. Yet it retains its isolated
wilderness charm. This is where you go for the
ultimate getaway.
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