The Greater St Lucia Wetland Park from Mapelane in the south to Kosi Bay in the North, including False Bay Park, MkhuzeGame Reserve and Sodwana National park, is a World heritage Site renamed as the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. It is recognised as a Ramsar wetland Site of international importance.  The park is reached via the N2. 

The iSimangaliso Wetland Park stretches for more than 250 000 ha up the east coast of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. This world heritage site encompasses wilderness areas of unsurpassed beauty. The beaches are ancient breeding grounds of the big sea turtles protected by some of the highest coastal dunes in the world.

Mapelane is a favourite site for anglers fishing off the southern bank of the St Lucia estuary and the Mfolozi rivers.  Here there are also trails through the coastal dune forests.

St Lucia is a coastal village made for tourists. Accommodation to suit every taste and budget and activities to keep visitors busy from sunrise to at least midnight especially during the turtle egg-laying season when a select few can venture out late on a summers’ night to observe loggerhead and leatherback turtles on the beach.

Cape Vidal offers fishing and snorkelling as well as rewarding wilderness trails.  Sodwana bay is one of South Africa’s premier diving and sport-fishing spots.  Lake Sibaya is the largest natural freshwater lake in southern Africa, it is possible to drive around the lake but a permit must be obtained from the KZN Wildlife offices.  Kosi Bay is in actual fact an estuary at the end of a sequence of fur lakes that stretch for 18 kilometres along the coast.  Hippo’s, croc’s and a large variety of fish live in the lakes.