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M_Fdez
ES
Visited:
October 2006
Reviewed: May 8, 2012
Email M_Fdez | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Addo National Park is close to the idea than European are looking for in an African National Park: vast, diverse, beautiful. Enjoying with a semi-wild group of elephants in front of you is a great experience
laurent Museau
FR
Visited:
March 2012
Reviewed: May 8, 2012
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Henry Zeiler
ZA
Visited:
October 2014
Reviewed: Apr 21, 2015
Email Henry Zeiler | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
This is a great place to see wild life.
We visited this park last year and I was pleasantly surprised with the beauty of nature and its animals. We stayed in the park accommodation and we found them to be clean, comfortable, spacious and well equipped. What a pleasure. The parks shop has all that one needs when visiting a park and the public ablutions are clean and modern.The restaurant is geared for good food and the menu has quite a variety of South African dishes.
Concerning the wild life, this is a green park with lots of animal and you will see elephant. You can do your own game drives or use the Sanparks open vehicles. There are picnic spots that are well maintained but always remember that your are in a national park with wild animal and please be careful.
We will visit this park again in 2015 as we take in tour groups and we always enjoy this park.
Massai_1 (Carsten M.)
Visited:
November 2014
Reviewed: May 25, 2015
Nice area close to Cape town and the Garden Route, mostly Elephants (never seen any other Big 5 animal there).
Walter Lichtenberger (MosSixtieOne)
Visited:
February 2014
Reviewed: Jun 4, 2015
Large elephant herds, predators, giraffes, zebras, warthogs and others. Self driving through the game reserve. Follow the safety rules.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Very nice scenery, a lot of wildlife
Very nice scenery, a lot of wildlife, good guides, knowledge of the guide, nice people