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Addo Elephant National Park Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa
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Sad Safari , Sunbathing and Spa
This is a top pick! ... rules to have no more than 3 (ideally only 2) trucks around each sighting. Graeme mentioned that now in some of the big national parks, there can be half a dozen trucks round something which strikes me as making the experience a lot more zoo / safari ...
Our First Wild Park!
This is a top pick! ... never forget! We drive our own car around the park until 6:00 pm and then went on a night safari for about 2 hours. Addo Elephant National Park is an elephant park is recognized as one of the country's twenty national parks. The original section of ...
Part 2 of the Park
This is a top pick! Here are more pictures from the Park. What a great time, we did not want to leave...they had to kick us ...
Dung beetles have the right of way.
... it but it is also in the brochure: CAUTION: DUNG BEETLES HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY. You are further advised not to run over elephant, rhino or buffalo dung, which is used by the scarce Flightless Dung Beetle to lay their eggs in. After breakfast, we ...
Feb 16, 2010
Addo Elephant Park
... 3 months. I'm such a girl I know! The next day we left J-bay and headed up to a place called Addo, where we did a game drive through the elephant park there. We gave some random german guys a lift too up to the area which was nice as they donated ...
Lost again
... hospital expenses and his wife's recovery. Our new driver was not familiar with the route and so tried to enter Addo Elephant Park by a service road. The truck, however, could not fit through the gate and so we drove along the perimeter ...
Beesteboel
... die het werkvolk naar de velden brengt hier voorbij. Tot zover de rust. Na het ontbijt op eigen houtje gaan safariën in Addo Elephant park. Het viel eigenlijk echt mee. We hadden gedacht dat je zonder gids niks zou zien, maar niks was minder waar. In ...
De grote trek
... dagen nog lukken, maar voorlopig zijn jullie van mijn gezaag vanaf. We zijn dan maar direct vertrokken naar Addo (vooral bekend van het olifanten park). Onderweg zouden we stoppen in Jeffrey's bay. Een dorpje (gehucht) waar elk jaar één van de heel ...
Elephant spotting
one day looking for elephants and seeing lots of ostrich! Addo Elephant Park We spent the day on safari again, driving around the park in search of elephants. Thinking that as it is an elephant park we would have no problems spotting a few, but ...
Fat Bottom Girls
... is celebrating Heritage Day. The weather is a bit cool but looks promising for a warmer afternoon. We arrive at Addo Elephant National Park at 9:30 AM. Addo Elephant National Park is right in the middle of a citrus growing and horse ...
Addo Elephant Park
... as it was quite uneventful. Save your money and bring a picnic lunch. We drove from North all the way to the South of the park, and out the southern gate. It seems that most of the grazers like the southern part of the park because there ...
It's Not a Black Rhino It's a Warthog
From Jeffery's Bay we headed up to Addo Elephant Park. The park started to breed the endangered African Elephant. They started with 11 elephants and now there are over 300. The guidebook says that you would be "unlucky to visit and not see an elephant." ...
Notre premier safari.
... de nous rendre à Addo, dans la province du "Eastern Cape". En route, nous arrêtons au "Big Tree", dans le parc national Tsitsikamma. En toute ignorance, nous croyons visiter des arbres... En fait, il s'agit de l'endroit où on retrouve l'arbre le ...
A one-of-a-kind safari!
... 'lix had child-catered plates served in front of the television - the ever-so-dependable babysitter! All that, combined with our usual South African wine and great company, makes for astounding meals. Thank you to Paula and Tim for the pleasant evenings! ...
Addo Elephant Park
Die Nacht verbrachten wir bereits im Hopefield Country House in der Nähe des Addo Elephant Parks, was zumindest mich nächtens bereits mit den vielfältigen Geräuschen der afrikanischen Tierwelt bekanntmache. Gleich nach dem ...
The Elephants we never saw :(
FACTS: Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country's 19 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi ...
On Safari...
... me in the eyes, knowing he could maul us at any moment if it took his fancy. After breakfast we headed for Addo Elephant National Park next door. The biggest game park in the southern half of South Africa and has the added attraction of being the ...
Addo National Park
Addo National Park was brilliant, a self-drive safari with 3 of the big five. It felt like we were the only people in the park. As we crept along in the car an Elephant stepped straight on from the bush right in front of us, this was just the ...
Park Virgins Go Wild
Addo is a little city along the coast and has a park dedicated to elephants (saved from local extinction by a farmer, where about 500 elephants are now thriving). It was our first game park, but it was not gentle. We entered the park and right away I see ...
Addo Elephant National Park
30 July -Addo Elephant Park Our cook Albert, knowing that I will be leaving the tour tomorrow, has been dropping very strong hints regarding his desire for a tip. For example, he has been mentioning how much it will cost him to renew his Zimbabwean ...
More Elephant Experiences
May 09 200 Kilometers Addo Elephant Park May 10 77 Kilometers Addo Elephant Park We expect this will be our last Wild Life Park visit in Africa. (Not counting Sharks, which is still on the agenda). ...
Horse riding in South Africa
A great morning on horse riding, getting up close and personal with the local wildlife in Addo Elephant National ...
Lion Around
... with a little kitchen and a deck overlooking the river. The reason we came to this part of the country was to explore Addo Elephant Park but decided to first go to Schotia private game reserve. What a great choice as we had eye-to-eye encounters with ...
Addo Elephant National Park
....... am Abend kommen wir im Nationalpark an (ca. 70km von PE). An der Rezeption bekommen wir unseren Schlüssel für die reservierte Forest Cabin (Holzhütte mit 4 Betten, WC/Dusche, kleine Terrasse mit Tisch + Kühlschrank und eine Braiistelle vor ...
The Epic Indian Adventure begins!
After 18 months of planning our trip to India,the day eventually arrived for us to set off on the first leg of our epic journey! The alarm went off at 4.40am and after a quick cup of tea and a goodbye to sleepy Tinie we set off to pick up Dave and ...
Addo got elephants... A lot
Port Elizabeth gehad. Addo Elephant National Park op ons pad. Aankomst was een echte boeren-Afrikaanse farmhouse Deluxe. Zeer mooi opgezet met schattige lodges, mooi ontbijt/diner locatie en gastvrouwen die de Afrikaanse taal beheersten. Het was alleen ...
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