Pietermaritzburg is mostly a continually innovating city that has in recent times seen quick expansion although it has long been a focus for lots of sights and entertainment. It’s the host urban centre for international events including the Comrades and Dusi Marathaons that are considered amongst the top running events globally. The Midmar Mile swimming event possesses the biggest open water field of its kind around the globe. The dam where it takes place likewise offers a good amount of additional pursuits over summer and winter. Holiday accomodations at Midmar are usually offered at picturesque shoreline camping sites, bungalows or a bush camp.
The Midlands is really a renowned place in KwaZulu Natal. It is a warm and welcoming place has its simple beginnings in 1985, after a small number of crafters came together to develop an art and craft route that holds the leading culture attraction on Pietermaritzburg and the Midlands known as the Midlands Meander. It’s grown into a vibrant network of 134 members, a few of local extraction, plus some who have left the metropolis to make their living in this beautiful environment.
The Midlands Meander, that offers great variety, great value and great service at numerous farms, hotels, guest houses, bed & breakfasts and spas, scattered along a well-marked corridor. In existence for over 20 years, this craft and leisure self-drive journey has long been certainly one of the nation’s more successful getting regular return holidaymakers to its diversity and distinctive atmosphere. Cheese farms with quaint goat’s towers, a mini-beer brewery, award-winning pottery studios, butterfly study projects, brilliantly coloured herbal centres and leatherworks all give top quality products created with a personal touch.
Hot air ballooning provides the exhilaration option of viewing the places of the Midlands from another point of view. Howick is a pleasant old town near to Pietermaritzburg that features the amazing 97m high Howick Falls. Close by is a monument which marks the spot where Nelson Mandela was caught prior to his incarceration on Robben Island.
This is only a sample of what’s offered as the Pietermarizburg Midlands in KwaZulu Natal provides a galaxy of visitors attractions as diverse and plentiful as the ample stars in its gloriously clear night skies which makes it the aptly billed “Capital of the Zulu Kingdom”.
