Addo Elephant National Park

The village of Addo is just big enough to call it a village. We found a butchery, a bit of liquor and a nice hostel with a cozy living room with TV. So we watched "The Dude" and "American Beauty".

The next morning we headed into the Park - at South African prices. Lions, kudus, zebras, ostriches, turtles, a jackal are also there, but they will always be in the shadow of the 2'000 elephants living here. At one point we could see about 300 elephants at the same time taking a bath. I never saw anything like it. The park used to be 10% of the current size, but the government is buying up land around the park to expand it. It now stretches all the way from the sea to the steep plateau. An aerial view of the park shows the patchy shape of the park.

After our nice, little safari we still had to drive 300km to Chintsa, since it seemed impossible to reach Coffee Bay before we would have turned into complete lunatics.