Africa, forming part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. It is the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal and is best-known as the busiest port in Africa. It is also a major centre of tourism due to the city's warm subtropical climate and beaches.| It is conceived that the first known dwellers of the Durban area got in from the north more or less 100,000 BC, tallying to carbon dating of rock art found in spelunks in the Drakensberg. These individuals were living in the central plains of KwaZulu-Natal until the expansion of Bantu people from the north sometime during the last millennium.|The modern city of Durban dates from 1824, when a party of 25 men below British Lieutenant F. G. Farewell arrived from the Cape Settlement and based a settlementon the northern shore of the Bay of Natal, near today's Farewell Square. Accompanying Farewell was an venturer named Henry Francis Fynn (1803-1861). Fynn was effective to befriend the Zulu King Shaka by helping him to recoup from a stab injury he endured in combat. As a token of Shaka's gratitude, he allotted Fynn a "25-mile strip of seacoast a hundred miles in depth."|Today, Durban is the busiest container port in Africa, and a modern tourist destination. The Golden Mile, developed as a welcoming tourist destination in the 1970s, as well as Durban at large, provide good holidaymaker attractivenesses, peculiarly for masses on holiday from Johannesburg. It lost its global vacation pre-eminence to Cape Town in the 1990s, but persists more popular among domestic tourers.|Durban is characterised by