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ADDO ELEPHANT NATIONAL PARK Print E-mail
The Addo Elephant park is a diverse and an exciting adventure of wildlife and nature, as never experienced before.

The Eastern Cape of South Africa is one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the world. It is host to the Addo and many other private game reserves. These malaria free alternatives for the Kruger National Park offer the big 5. Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo, Lion and Leopard and due to the enormous expansions now includes a marine section with seasonal whales and sharks, being touted as the “big 7”.  

The parks 164 000 hectares stretches over a vast area from the vast Darlington Lake, across the breathtaking Zuurberg mountains, through the pristine dense valley bushveld of the beautiful Sundays River Valley to the lush green forests at the Woody Cape, which hug the largest coastal dune fields in the Southern Hemisphere, ending in the park’s marine area at Bird Island & St Croix Island.

Situated in the malaria free Eastern Cape Province, only 60 minutes from Port Elizabeth, the Addo Elephant National Park is a key destination linked to the famous Garden Route. The Park is sanctuary to a multitude of game species and abundant birdlife, including over 450 elephants, Lions, Black Rhino’s, Buffalo’s, Leopards, Zebra, Spotted Hyena’s, a variety of Antelope species.

 

Newsflash

Leopard in Addo
The elusive Leopard in Addo has been spotted by 2 groups of tourists in the last 2 weeks of September 2008.
 
Lions
Main LION sightings in ADOO ELEPHANT NATIONAL PARK are in the Waynes Valley area on the Southern access Road. 3 new lion cubs have been born in AENP in June / July. This brings the number of lions in the park to 12. Twice as many as were initially introduced.
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Recent Animal Sightings

Buffalo herd - Carol's Rest

Elephants - Hapoor Dam

Ostriches - Gorah Loop

Zebra - Gorah Loop

Eland - Gorah Loop

 

 

 
Driest in 50 years

Park at it's driest in 50 years.

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