warm subtropical climate and beaches.| It is conceived that the foremost known inhabitants of the Durban area made it from the north about 100,000 BC, according to carbon dating of rock art found in spelunks in the Drakensberg. These individuals were holding up in the centered plains of KwaZulu-Natal until the expansion of Bantu individuals from the north sometime during the last millennium.|The trendy city of Durban dates from 1824, when a party of 25 men under British Lieutenant F. G. Farewell came from the Cape Colony and set up a settlement on the northern shore of the Bay of Natal, near today's Farewell Square. Following Farewell was an adventurer named Henry Francis Fynn (1803-1861). Fynn was capable to befriend the Zulu King Shaka by helping him torecover from a stab injury he endured in combat. As a token of Shaka's gratitude, he granted Fynn a "25-mile strip of seashore a hundred miles in depth."|Nowadays, Durban is the busiest container port in Africa, and a favourite tourist destination. The Golden Mile, sprung up as a welcoming tourer destination in the 1970s, as well as Durban at large, provide tremendous tourist drawing cards, particularly for people on vacation from Johannesburg. It lost its international holiday pre-eminence to Cape Town in the 1990s, but persists more popular among domestic tourists.|Durban is characterised by a low subtropic climate with warm wet summertimes and mild moist to dry wintertimes, which are frost-free. However, due to large elevation variants, some western suburban areas get more or less cold in the