Ballito

Province

Ballito is a holiday in KwaZulu -Natal, South Africa. The village is located about 40 kilometers north of Durban. In 2011 he had 19,234 inhabitants. As in the coastal region around Ballito Dolphins are regularly sighted, this area of ​​the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal is also known as the Dolphin Coast ( " Dolphin Coast "). The word Ballito comes from Italian and means "little ball ".

The city was founded in 1954 as a private settlement of the Glen Anil Development Corporation. Previously, the area belonged to a sugar cane farm. Released in 1954, the Sunday Tribune a display for Ballito Bay to with low prices to attract potential investors to the north coast. In 1964 the zoning for houses, hotels and campsites was transferred to the map for the settlement Compensation Beach. The area stretched from Willard Beach to Clark Bay, Salmon Bay and Port Zimbali. A brochure with the first pictures of Ballito for a marketing was issued. With the slogan " Buy, Build & Play at Ballito Bay, The Caribbean of the North Coast - Natal " ( German as "buy, build and play in the bay of Ballito, the Caribbean, the North Coast in Natal" ) was hoped tourists to attract who should invest in the area.

In Ballito there are three major new shopping centers: the Lifestyle Centre, Ballito Bay Mall and the Juncion.

Ballito, Salt Rock and Shaka's Rock are vacation destinations for tourists en route to Zululand and the Battlefields, the scenes of the Boer War. For visitors, there are hotels, apartments, beaches for swimming ( Willard Beach ) and surfing (Boulder Beach). Along the beach there is a 2.5 kilometer long promenade.