Addo Elephant Park

Addo elephant park is situated in the Sundays river valley. The park covers a large area and is home to the big five. The park offers a variety of accommodation, game drives and day visitor picnic areas. The park has 2 major entrances. The main entrance is near the town of Addo and the second is near Alexandria.

My day visit to the park was definitely very enjoyable and I got to see the majestic elephant I wanted to see. These guys are enormous and it is easy to feel really small in their company. From the picnic area it the main camp you can see over a water hole. The day I was there a solo elephant male came to the water hole. There was also a few small buck and of course the usual warthog.

After lunch we drove through the park. Quite a large part of the roads are tarred. This makes it easy to drive through the park with minimal strain on your car. It was on the tarred area that we came across a elephant baby and his mom. Too cute for words right?

At some point the you end up driving on dirt roads. This isn't a problem since these roads are well maintained. Finding the lions and the rhinos are not that easy. It takes a lot of driving and patience and if you are lucky you might bump into them. I guy I work with often goes to the park and he always get nice pictures. I found some ostriches and a warthogs on the drive.

After driving for about a hour and a half we came across a water point and there were elephants everywhere. The photos I have doesn't do justices to their size or their numbers. They would walk right by the cars and from all direction. We were in a minibus and they where towering over us.
The park is well worth a visit.