Addo Elephant National Park

50 miles north-east of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape is Addo Elephant National Park. It is characterised by shadowy valleys of dense bushveld that 80 years ago saved the great elephant herds of the Cape from extinction. Today Addo is home to one of the densest elephant populations in the world. It is also home to the Big Five including the Black Rhino, a wide range of antelope and more humbly, a unique flightless dung beetle which is almost exclusively found here.

Addo has warm-hot summers and some chilly winter days with cold nights and is most popular and busy in mid-summer. There are a number of walking trails and a horse riding trail in an area fenced off from larger animals as well as a substanial network of well signposted game-viewing roads. Night drives are also available.