SOUTH AFRICA - Addo Elephant Park, Eastern Cape

Addo Elephant National Park is the third largest national park in South Africa. The park stretches from the semi-arid Karoo area in the north, over the rugged Zuurberg Mountains through the Sundays River Valley and south to the coast between Sundays River mouth and Bushman’s River mouth. The park covers approximately 444,700 acres.

The original elephant section of the park was proclaimed in 1931, when only sixteen elephants remained in the area. Today this finely tuned ecosystem is sanctuary to over 550 elephants, lions, buffalo, black rhino, spotted hyena, leopard, a variety of antelope and zebra species, as well as the unique Addo flightless dung beetle, found almost exclusively in Addo.      There are plans to expand the Park into a 652 300 acre mega-park and plans include the proposed proclamation of a marine protected area that includes islands that are home to the world's largest breeding populations of Cape gannets and largest breeding population of endangered African penguins.  

The Zuurberg mountain range is home to the Cape mountain zebra, mountain reedbuck, baboons, blue duiker, aardwolf and red rock rabbit.  Hippos are found in the Sundays River which flows at the base of these mountains. Gemsbok, black wildebeest, springbok, buffalo and black rhino are found in the arid nama-karoo around the Darlington Dam area. The coastal forest is home to bushbuck, bushpig, brown hyena and the rare tree dassie.

There are a number of quality accommodation options in and around the park to suit all tastes and budgets – Contact us to provide you with the best options!