{"id":33713,"date":"2013-07-26T10:16:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T08:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/beach-stay-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T17:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T15:30:42","slug":"beach-stay-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/africa\/south-africa\/beach-stay-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Beach stay South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The most beautiful beach hotels in South Africa<\/h2>\n<p>The coastal strip between<strong> Durban<\/strong> and the Mozambican border is known as the<strong> Dolphin Coast<\/strong> . In addition to dolphins, you will find miles of world-class golden beaches, the most famous being Salt Rock and Willard&#8217;s Beach. Every autumn, humpback whales and millions of sardines \u2013 the largest school in the world \u2013 provide extra spectacle here. The sardines migration is a unique phenomenon, they sometimes swim so close to the coast that they strand en masse. The most famous seaside resorts are Ballito and Umhlanga with all the amenities you could wish for and good connections to Durban, which is half an hour&#8217;s drive away. The Dolphin Coast is a good place to live all year round thanks to the subtropical climate, comparable to that of South Florida. Also nearby are top attractions such as the<strong> Hluhluwe-Umfolozi National Park<\/strong> \u2013 with the Big Five &#8211; and the <strong>Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park<\/strong>, world heritage site with five different ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Along the coast are a few exclusive lodges. While staying at the lodges, diving and snorkeling excursions are offered, as well as the chance to see turtles laying eggs on the beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has some beautiful deserted beaches, pearls along the Indian Ocean with a spectacular underwater world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":187278,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[207],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-33713","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-south-africa","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230162,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33713\/revisions\/230162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=33713"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=33713"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=33713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}