Addo Backpackers
We have an in house tour guide with a number of different activities. Hiking, fishing, mountain biking and a number of tours in the area are available. Riding Elephants or talking to Cheetahs are just some of the crazy things you can do! Our lively pub offers local flavor to your stay and the restaurant offers local dishes as well as the best steaks around ...
Addo Valley Retreat B&B
Addo is famous for its Citrus Industry. Addo Valley Retreat is only 9 km from the world famous Addo Elephant National Park. Guests can enjoy our farm, called Pegasus Farm that has the Sundays River flowing within a very short walking distance of the main Bed and Breakfast ...
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Aard Vark Backpackers
Make yourself at home in our stylish accommodation designed with the budget conscious but discerning traveller in mind. Choose from a traditional thatched Rondavel or a stylish room in the main house - all with en-suite facilities or a funky bunk in our dorm room with shared facilities. All the rooms are furnished with unique locally made furniture and fittings ...
Orange Elephant Backpackers
We have Mountain Biking and Hiking trails or you could spend a relaxing day fly fishing on the Sundays River. Shuttle service from Port Elizabeth to Addo. In-house tour guide for the Addo Park, The restaurant offers a full al la carte menu and caters fully for “veggies”. We offer traditional South African food such as “Bobotie” and game steaks ...
Addo Elephant National Park is an elephant park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is recognized as one of the country's twenty national parks. The original section of the park was founded in 1931, in part due to Sydney Skaife, in order to provide a sanctuary for the eleven remaining elephants in the area. The park has proved to be very successful and currently houses more than 450 elephants, 400 Cape buffalo, over 48 endangered black rhino as well as a variety of antelope species. Lion and spotted hyena has also recently been re-introduced to the area. A species unique to the area is the flightless dung beetle, namely Circellium bacchus.
The original park has subsequently been expanded to include the Woody Cape Nature Reserve that extends from the Sundays River mouth towards Alexandria and a marine reserve, which includes St. Croix Island and Bird Island, an important breeding habitat for gannets and penguins, not to mention a large variety of other marine life. Bird Island is home to the world's largest breeding colony of gannets - about 120,000 birds - and also hosts the second largest breeding colony of African penguins. This forms part of the plan to expand the 1,480 km² Addo National Elephant Park into a 3,600 km² Greater Addo Elephant National Park.
The park receives about 120,000 visitors annually. International visitors make up 54% of this number, with German, Dutch and British nationals making up the majority. There is a main and four other rest camps as well four camps run by concessionaires.
