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Umhlanga visitors are spoilt for choice when it comes to top-notch sporting facilities and adventure activities.
Non-stop Sport & Adventure
Sea kayaking is a rapidly growing sport, and anglers often fish off paddle skis where they catch dorado and barracuda. The best shore angling spots are off the rocks at Umdloti and La Mercy.
If you like exploring trails at speed, mountain biking, dirt biking and quad biking are all offered, from tours to day excursions to outrides. If you fancy a flip through the air, microlighting and helicopter flights are offered from Virginia Airport. Contact: 031 563 7101.
The annual Tour Durban cycle race is growing in popularity, offering mountain bike and road bike races of varying distances through the Durban and Umhlanga areas.
Swing away
Golfers are spoilt for choice with 11 courses all within a 35km radius of Umhlanga. Mount Edgecombe, just inland of Umhlanga, offers two championship golf courses designed to USPGA specifications. Both courses are challenging but fair, and provide a very agreeable round of golf. Contact: 031 539 5330. South of Umhlanga is the 5 883-metre Durban Country Club Beachwood Golf Course, one of the area’s most beautiful courses with its undulating fairways lined by tropical bush. Contact: 031 564 4257.
A pleasant round of golf at Mount Edgecombe Country Club.
The annual Tour Durban cycle race. (Picture courtesy of Tour Durban)
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