Durban · from the air
Durban from the Air
The Moses Mabhida arch, the Golden Mile and the busiest port in Africa: what is underneath a lap of Kings Park.
Kings Park has been Durban’s rugby ground since 1958, home of the Sharks, and it sits beside something that dwarfs it: Moses Mabhida Stadium, whose single arch spans 350 m and carries a cable car to a platform 106 m up. East of both is the Golden Mile, six kilometres of beachfront on the warm Indian Ocean. North is the Umgeni river mouth and the Blue Lagoon; south, past uShaka Marine World, is Durban harbour, the busiest port in Africa, with the Bluff sheltering it from the open sea.
Inland the ground rises into the Berea, the ridge the city climbed as it grew.