It is an underrated feat when there is a silent but ever strong character featured in a TV series. It is a character that is omnipresent and shares its aura, setting the tone and mood. And Reyka has hit the ball out of the park because any viewer will instantly fall in love with the lush KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province, where it is filmed. 🌊
Serial killer vibes aside, the sugar cane fields looked like velvet ribbons gently caressing the earth and horizon at the same time, the hills looked like the softest quilt, and all scenes including any sort of water offered a gentle, soothing haze. 💧
With travel to KZN on our minds, here are a few things that are great to see in the province.
St Lucia
As the gateway to the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, there is more than enough to see and do in this town. Named as a heritage site in 1999 by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, you know it is a gem of a place to do a hippo boat cruise or a turtle tour. 🐢 Revel in nature at its very best.
The Valley of a Thousand Hills
If this sounds like a name from a fantasy novel, you’re right. Remember the hills we mentioned above, looking like the softest quilt? These are those hills we speak of. 🌍 It is truly a site to behold.
Shaka’s Rock
Another idyllic coastal town, but swathed in myth and legend involving the famous Zulu king, Shaka. “According to legend,” reads the South African History Online website: “this was a place of execution of many of Shaka's enemies, also many of his warriors were required to prove their courage by leaping from the rock into the sea.”
Pietermaritzburg Botanical Garden
According to the South African Tourism website, this garden was established a long time ago during the 1870s to “propagate and conserve rare and endangered indigenous plants” and it has everything from camphor tress to magnolias.
The lighthouse at Umhlanga Rocks
A seaside resort isn’t quite complete without a lighthouse. And Umhlanga Rocks boasts the quintessential red and white structure. It is something straight out of a handsome painting.
Sources: South African Tourism, News24, South African History Online
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