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This entry from Mike and Mad's endless summer!
We arrived at Addo Elephant park, still feeling rough but on the mend. We found our little Rondavel, a circular building with a wicker conical roof, which overlooked a flood lit waterhole. Mad sighed and said “Nothing there”, to which I replied “No but there are three large Elephants on the hillside!” Now that’s what you call delivering the goods! We set out almost straight away for our first game drive inside the park, it was great, green bushland, rolling hills, waterholes dotted around and animals wandering. We were only out for a couple of hours during which we saw, Warthogs, Ostriches, Meer cats, Antelopes, Tortoises, Jackals and Elephants! Not bad for a first outing! We even got to see a Black Rhino and it’s baby later in the evening from our Rondavel!
The following day we were in the park for the whole day having personal audiences with Buffalo and Elephants who graced us with their presence, along with numerous other animals that we managed to sight. Such good fun trying to find them!
We staked out the flood lit waterhole from a hide located right beside it and again the Rhino and baby came. We were only 15 – 20 metres from them and they could smell/hear us, looking in our direction as they drank. So cool!
We were so stoked and were sad to be leaving the next day but in the style that we arrived Addo gave us a finale, we staked out the larger waterhole and found a large herd of Buffalo and then a gathering of about 50 Elephants! With some tiny little babies in tow! There was a big stand off as we saw a huge bull Elephant approaching from the other direction, it was massive. He walked around the waterhole looking right at us passing about 15 metres away from us, scary as hell as these are totally wild and this is their playground. The rest of the elephants were huddled together apart from another large male, they sized each other up and we thought there was going to be a great battle but luckily the biggest of the two was in charge of all of them. He selected a female and a baby from the herd and took them to the waterhole to drink, while the others stayed back. The other male was ever watchful of us. An amazing social interaction!
After recovering from all that we had seen and felt we said good bye to Addo and set off to Port Elizabeth.
We stayed the night in a basic backpackers then flew up to our next big stop, the Kruger national park!
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From the Africa Safari Blog:
We then headed towards Addo Elephant National Park situated in the malaria–free province. Addo is a sanctuary to lots of game species, an abundance of birdlife and of course the largest herds of elephants. You can also have the chance to see leopards, lions, buffalos, spotted hyenas, a variety of antelope species, lots of warthogs and the unique flightless Dung Beetles. The Dung Beetles are everywhere in the park!
The following day was the end of my trip, so we left Addo to Port Elizabeth for my flight back to Cape Town. This was an amazing experience and I cant wait to go on my next Jenman Safari!