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Accommodation IN the Addo Elephant National Park
If you like the idea of mingling with hephalumps then look no further!
Pack your bags and head for this haven to a herd of 450 elephants in the Sundays River region. Watch their little ones getting up to mischief in the mud at waterholes. These elephants are mellow, having been protected for more than 75 years and form one of the densest elephant populations around the globe. From your vehicle you can easily gaze into their big brown eyes and be amazed at the dexterity of its trunk endowed with 100 000 muscles.
Black rhino and Cape buffalo also browse in the dense valley bushveld. At night the pachyderms come out to play at the waterhole right near the chalets. They can be particularly entertaining with lots of stomping, snorting, scent marking and dust swirling.
The park has recently been extended and now encompasses the southern hemisphere’s largest expanding dune field, the Alexandria Forest and the world’s largest gannet breeding colony on Bird Island and numerous breeding penguins on St Croix Island.
It’s biggest brag? It hosts the Big Seven! That includes the Big Five with the great white shark and southern right whale thrown in – not that you can spot them from your car!
Besides these leviathans, keep your eyes open for the charming little meerkats or the unique flightless dung beetle.
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