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Thomas Smith
AU
Visited:
October 2017
Reviewed: Nov 6, 2017
Email Thomas Smith | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Lots of elephants! Otherwise there was not so much on offer for us. Still worth a visit though.
Sheila Jefferys
GB
Visited:
October 2017
Reviewed: Oct 30, 2017
Email Sheila Jefferys | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
ADDO is a massive National Park with lots of wildlife, in addition to the large number of elephants. We had a wonderful day there - the highlight was seeing a family of elephants with 2 young cubs learning to feed. All at close quarters, fabulous.
stefan
AT
Visited:
December 2016
Reviewed: Sep 1, 2017
Email stefan | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Nice self-drive experience with lots of Elephants around.
We arrived late in the evening at the campground in Addo National Park. Campground was quite packed, but nice. Clean facilities. Camp office was just being rebuild. There's a waterhole where you can observe the animals. As soon as the lights at the waterhole switched off at around 10pm, an elephant family and a rhino showed up. Was great to see the standoff between those 2 in the dark.
Next day we did a self-drive tour through the park - amazing. So many Elephants, turtles, all kinds of deer, and even a lion crossed our park. There's a bushcamp in the middle where we had a picknick.
All in all Addo was a great experience!
tobias.gebhardt
DE
Visited:
March 2017
Reviewed: Jul 16, 2017
Email tobias.gebhardt | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Great place to get close to several elephants
Visiting the Addy Elephant National Park has been my first safari.
After we entered the park and went along the road for a few minutes an elephant just passed by our car. That was pretty exciting because we did not if we just can wait or should leave. But the elephant has been really relaxed and just walked along the road. The highlight was the stop at a water hole during the midday sun. I guess that there have been 50 elephants close to each other. Watching this scenery for 30min has been fantastic.
Besides elephants we also saw zebras and warthogs.
Addo Elephant National Park is the perfect spot for a day trip.
ka.hi
DE
Visited:
December 2015
Reviewed: Jun 21, 2016
Email ka.hi | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
a Must for elephant lovers
The bird hide next to the restaurant is also worth a visit. Lots of red cardinals and weaver birds.
We always stayed in one of the park's chalets.
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They offer sufficient comfort and you are close to the animals. Although outside the park there are more luxurious accommodation for almost the same price, we always opt to stay in the park, because there is a major advantage: People in the park are allowed to enter 1 hour earlier and leave one hour later than people staying outside (this is because the gates between street and Addo rest camp close earlier/open later than the gates between rest camp and game area). Add the driving time from your accomodation to the park and you can easily calculate that good light for photography is impossible when you stay outside.A typical day as we organize it looks as follows:
- get up 30 mins before the game gate opens
- have a coffee and some cookies or light breakfast (kitchen available in the chalet)
- enter the park when gate opens (usually at or shortly after sunrise)
- stay in the park (mainly at the waterholes) until 9 or 10a.m.
- return to the restaurant for breakfast
- during the day, get the sleep you missed (aircon available in chalet)
- around 4p.m. start the afternoon drive (some cookies and coffee before come in handy)
- leave park when gate closes
- have shower and dinner at the restaurant (but self cooking at chalet would also be possible)
- sleep
It is advisable to bring in your own supplies, especially if you want to cook yourselves, because the shop has only minimal choices.
Gail
US
Visited:
November 2015
Reviewed: Dec 6, 2015
Email Gail | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Saw 3 of the Big 5
I highly recommend taking the open air vehicle tour because they can go off the main roads, whereas the personal cars cannot. That's where we got to see two male lions very up close and personal! It was awesome.
The restaurant told us they were only serving breakfast, which was very delicious, however, we saw that the table next to us (also with our party), were able to order lunch. That was a bit disappointing!
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interpretation center to read about Hapoor the elephant. Very interesting story.Overall, it was really great. Many of the watering holes are on the side of the roads so we were able to see many animals. That's the only part that seemed a bit artificial. Oh and we stayed along the edge of the park for some of the tour so you can see fencing and also electrical towers, etc.
Natalie
DE
Visited:
December 2024
Reviewed: Dec 19, 2024
Email Natalie | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
It was amazing to see all the Animals in her natural life area. We saw a loots of Elefants, Zebra and some other animals
Dawn Dalley
NZ
Visited:
June 2024
Reviewed: Jul 21, 2024
Email Dawn Dalley | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
We enjoyed our two days self driving through the park. In hindsight we wished we had stayed in the park and not in accommodation just north of it.
Barbara R
US
Visited:
May 2024
Reviewed: Jun 14, 2024
Email Barbara R | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Louise Dixon
NZ
Visited:
January 2024
Reviewed: Feb 10, 2024
Email Louise Dixon | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris