Bull elephant

One of Addo Elephant National Park's bulls eying the guy behind the camera aiming at him

Life is one big buffet

Elephants need to eat about between 160 and 200kg of vegetation per day which means that they basically eat all day as they go. For them, life is on long buffet.

Where to find the animals?

One of the easiest ways to find out where the animals in Addo Elephant Natinal Park can be found is by having a look at the game viewing road map in the main rest camp of the park. Visitors to the park can mark on the map where they have seen the "main" animals and although … Continue reading Where to find the animals? →

Waiting at the waterhole

The Addo Elephant National Park's main restcamp has a water hole just below the parking area where visitors can sit and relax while watching the elephants and other animals come down to drink. Most tourists entering the park normally head straight to the lookout to see if they can glimpse their first elephant, but sometimes it's … Continue reading Waiting at the waterhole →

The local waterhole

Hapoor Waterhole is the most popular water(ing) hole in Addo Elephant National Park for the locals (both males and females) to hang out at and as they don't serve alcoholic drinks the littlies are also welcome.

Two of the Big 5

Visitors to the Addo Elephant National Park often go home with stories of magnificent elephant sightings and sometimes have an awesome story to tell of how an elephant walked so close past their car that you could reach out and touch him (just don't actually go and do it). On a good day you could also … Continue reading Two of the Big 5 →

There’s an elephant in the way

Yesterday's post showed how stunning an encounter one can have in the Addo Elephant National Park when the elephants come walking down the road and passes your car. These encounters get even more exciting when they pass as close as this one. Luckily the elephants in Addo are used to vehicles and encounters like this is possible, … Continue reading There’s an elephant in the way →

Elephant roadblock

Some of the best sightings one can have in Addo Elephant National Park is to find a herd of elephants either on or right next to the road. The best way to enjoy this is to just switch off the car and sit back and watch these massive animals go about their normal daily routine.

Greater Addo Park sunset

We recently visited Kuzuko Lodge in the northern section of the Addo Elephant National Park about two hours outside Port Elizabeth for our anniversary. I've been posting about the visit in The Firefly Photo Files if you would like to have a peek. On the afternoon game drive we encountered the lions and afterwards headed up to a … Continue reading Greater Addo Park sunset →

Watching an elephant

One of the best parts about visiting Addo Elephant National Park is that you can drive around the park in the own car and get the opportunity to get nice and close to wild elephants doing so. Most private game reserves don't allow small children on their game drives, but Addo gives kids the opportunity to … Continue reading Watching an elephant →