| Page Views: 249 Last Visit to Addo Elephant National Park: January, 2003 | Addo Elephant Park by janiebaxter - last update: Oct 14, 2007 |
Past the Garden Route is the Eastern Cape, South Africa’s second-largest province with white beaches, giant sand dunes, mountains, forests, rivers, game reserves, small townsand cities and game parks.
Addo Elephant National Park in South was proclaimed a national park in 1931 as a sanctuary for 11 elephants that remained in the Eastern Cape. Addo has stimulated a large-scale movement to return the Eastern Cape to wildlife, starting with Shamwari and followed by many private reserves now taking up an enormous area.
Addo is in the Sundays River Valley, less than an hour’s drive from Port Elizabeth. The park is expanding into the mountains and to the coast in the next few years and will become the largest national park in South Africa so it will be interesting to watch it develop.
See Travelogue for more Elephant pictures |
| Black Rhino at a waterhole |
|  | Rhinos Now there are more than 450 elephants thriving in the park, making Addo the most densely populated elephant reserve in the whole of Africa. It would be extremely hard to visit Addo and not see an elephant. The reserve also has a range of other animals including eland, kudu, red hartebeest, warthog, zebra, ostrich, black rhino, buffalo and lion.
We were lucky enough to see 5 different Black Rhinos in one game drive! |
Jackal This is the best view I have had of a Jackel on any safari, and the game drives here were superb.
Also unique to the area is the flightless dung beetle.
We travelled to Addo with UK company Rainbow Tours, who are experts in South Africa and Madagascar | | |
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| Pros: | "Elephants guaranteed!" | | Cons: | "None" |
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