Garden Route Port Elizabeth Tours
Garden route tours South Africa include daily sightseeing bus tours to Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape Province.
Addo ranks as the third largest in South Africa, home to more than 600 elephants. As well as a sanctuary for elephants, the park is also home to abundant wildlife and boasts a variety of biodiversity, landscapes, fauna and flora that cross the length and breath of the Eastern Cape.
Tours leave from Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth.
Addo Elephant Port Elizabeth
The original elephant section of the Park was proclaimed in 1931.
Addo is actually home to the Big 7 and encompasses 5 of South Afric a’s nine biomes.
For the birding enthusiast the differing habitats from dense thickets of spekboom to wooded kloofs provides excellent sightings.
You can expect to see Cape buffalo, lion, spotted hyena, Burchells’ zebra, warthog, kudu, eland, baboons, hipppos, gemsbok, bushpig, springbok to name just a few.
But as usual it is the elephants that steal the limelight with their playful antics.
Look out for the rare flightless dung beetle who has right of way in Addo, is endemic to the region.
Feeding on elephant, buffalo and rhino excrement, the dung not only provides a source of nourishment but is the ideal place for their breeding.
Addo Elephant Park
When you are not watching the elephants or sighting great white sharks, take a look at the wide open spaces around you.
Ancient Khoisan tribes hunted in this region, at a time when wildlife was plenty.
Surrounding mountains show rock surfaces painted with the tales of stone age people.
At first glance the region looks impenetrable, with hillsides covered in proteas and 1000 year old cycads. Yet Addo is home to more than 100 species of mammals, approx, 20 marine species and over 400 bird species.