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emanuelberger
CH
Visited:
March 2017
Reviewed: Jun 21, 2017
Email emanuelberger | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Addo is the Elephant Park
This was not our first time we visited that Addo Elephant Park, but this time it was special as family member joined us for a trip along the Garden Route. If there is place you can see elephants, Addo it is the place. We are especially fond of the very young once as they not only cute, but very play full. The park has partly very dense bush vegetation, but also has big open spaces. On hills, viewpoints offer good sights in to the surroundings, at some you are allowed to exit the car. At the Hapoor Dam we could see up 200 Elephants drinking and waiting their turn. But the park also has lots of antelopes, zebras, tortoises and a lot of Birds. Predators are rather scares, but we have seen lions on previous visits.
Aaron
TW
Visited:
May 2017
Reviewed: May 31, 2017
Email Aaron | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
The elephants are so huge!
It's very nice to see so many different kind of animals in one Park.
It's wonderful season in early May.
The natural protection polices are very good. (for instance, Don't feed animals inside the park)
Andre Langenus
BE
Visited:
October 2016
Reviewed: Feb 17, 2017
Email Andre Langenus | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Addo seemed very tame after our week in Kruger. It is quite beautiful and hilly. Accommodation was very comfortable but seeing the wildlife proved a lot more difficult because of the bushes. We waited for one whole day to see our first elephants.
David Verbossche
NL
Visited:
March 2014
Reviewed: Nov 2, 2015
Email David Verbossche | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
There is a lot of open space which is ideal for elephant spotting. You will see a lot of elephant! Other game is harder to spot. It is also a very busy park.
Very nice scenery, a lot of wildlife
Very nice scenery, a lot of wildlife, good guides, knowledge of the guide, nice people
Travelling Rats
Visited:
July 2015
Reviewed: Jul 11, 2015
A great way to spend a day in Africa
The bush in many places in Addo is very thick which can make spotting game a bit challenging at times. As we only visited for the day I can not comment on accommodation, however we did visit the restaurant at the main camp and were very impressed by the meal. Everything from arriving, purchasing our day pass
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and moving around the park worked efficiently and the park appears to be very well run. We will certainly visit again if we are lucky enough to find ourselves in this part of the world again.
crafty1tutu (Ann Cameron)
AU
Visited:
August 2014
Reviewed: Jul 1, 2015
Email crafty1tutu (Ann Cameron) | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
We only had about three hours there as part of a tour of the Eastern Cape, so not much time to see many animals. We did see two herds of elephants drinking at the dam which was an amazing sight to see.
jorendejager
Visited:
June 2015
Reviewed: Jun 30, 2015
Amazing experience
After starting our South Africa trip in Cape Town, Addo Elephant National Park was the first self drive safari we did. It was an awesome experience. We had the possibility to get realy close to giant elephant. But there is a lot more to see. We didn't see any rhino, lion or leopard, but we did see a lot of warthog, zebra's, buffalo, kudu and a lot more. It's a giant park, but it is not busy at all. This gave us the real safari feeling.
kevwilliams69
GB
Visited:
March 2015
Reviewed: Jun 27, 2015
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
More elephants than you can shake a stick at!
This is a very popular park and it shows with the amount of people you will see there. There isn't a place where you will think you are in the middle of nowhere, the roads are mainly paved and you are never very far from another car.
There is a notice board near the main shop that lists the animal sightings for the day so it allows you to plan out your trip, Addo is enormous so make sure you take a whole day to view of all (if not more).
We drove for a while only seeing a couple of animals, then a single male elephant stode into view. We followed him until he turned a corner and we saw a whole herd of the magnificent beasts. This memory will stay with me forever. We found several other herds throughout the day each as amazing as the other.
This is an amazing park and there are plenty of other animals to see (lions, zebras, antelope to name but a few). If you like elephants then you will love this park.
