Day Trip Addo Park ex Port Elizabeth
Day trip Addo Park from Port Elizabeth offers a full day on safari in Addo National Park home to more than 600 elephants.
This sanctuary boasts the Big Seven: Great White Shark, Southern Right Whale, Elephant, Rhino, Lion, Buffalo, Leopard.
The different biomes range from forested areas to the Indian ocean coastal section with dunes and grassy plains.
not operational in 2023
Experience
As well as the Big 5, the park is also home to many antelope specis including eland, kudu, bushbuck and zebra. Other mammals include blue duiker, montain reedbuck. Hippos can be found in the Sundays River.
Addo is the third largest national park in South Africa, home to the densest population of elephant in the world. The original elephant section of the park was proclaimed in 1931, when only sixteen elephants remained in the area.
Today this finely tuned ecosystem is a sanctuary to over 450 elephants. Other mammals include lions, buffalo, Black Rhino, spotted hyena, leopard, a variety of antelope and zebra species, as well as the unique Addo flightless dung beetle, found almost exclusively in Addo.
The park has expanded to conserve a wide diversity of biodiversity. , landscapes, fauna and flora stretching from the semi-arid Karoo area in the north around Darlington Dam, over the rugged Zuurberg Mountains, through the Sundays River valley and south to the coast between the Sundays River mouth and Bushman’s river mouth.