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Elephant Safari: Big 5 Wildlife and South African Cuisine
4.9
101 Ratings
Sarah Baartman District Municipality
Experience the wild side of Africa in one day at Addo Elephant National Park. Spot the Big 5, enjoy a traditional Braai, and capture stunning photos.
Experience the wild side of Africa in one day at Addo Elephant National Park. Spot the Big 5, enjoy a traditional Braai, and capture stunning photos.
Duration:
10 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Addo Elephant National Park - Addo Elephant National Park, the third-largest national park in South Africa, has expanded to conserve a wide range of biodiversity, landscapes, fauna and flora. The Full Day Addo Park Safari Tour is a very popular safari option and guests enjoy the whole of the Addo Elephant National Park at a leisurely pace, whilst…
- Addo Elephant National Park - Addo Elephant National Park, the third-largest national park in South Africa, has expanded to conserve a wide range of biodiversity, landscapes, fauna and flora. The Full Day Addo Park Safari Tour is a very popular safari option and guests enjoy the whole of the Addo Elephant National Park at a leisurely pace, whilst searching for perfect Big 5 photograph opportunities. The tour includes, tea, coffee, refreshments and a traditional South African Braai (BBQ) lunch, accompanied by local beverages.
The Addo Elephant National Park is home to more than 600 elephants and a large number of other indigenous animals including the endangered black rhino, as well as the unique Addo flightless dung beetle, found almost exclusively in Addo.
All our Game Drives are carried out by knowledgeable FGASA, Basic First Aid qualified guides who are registered with the Department of Tourism, South African National Park and accredited by Addo Elephant National Park.
What's Included
- Bottled water
- On-board WiFi
- Lunch
- Tea and coffee
- Park Entrance Fees
- Binoculars, several pairs to be shared by guests on board.
- Bottled water
- On-board WiFi
- Lunch
- Tea and coffee
- Park Entrance Fees
- Binoculars, several pairs to be shared by guests on board.
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Gratuities
Additional Information
- Probably your best chance of viewing a lot of elephants at close range in their natural habitat.
- A great opportunity to spot members of the Big 5 in their natural environment.
- Visit the 3rd largest national park in South Africa.
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Look out for lions, hyenas, antelopes, zebras, notoriously dangerous Cape buffaloes, black rhinoceros and many more.
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- Probably your best chance of viewing a lot of elephants at close range in their natural habitat.
- A great opportunity to spot members of the Big 5 in their natural environment.
- Visit the 3rd largest national park in South Africa.
- Look out for lions, hyenas, antelopes, zebras, notoriously dangerous Cape buffaloes, black rhinoceros and many more.
- An opportunity to learn about African wildlife through interpretations by our highly experienced Nature Guides.
- For the time conscious, this is your best chance to experience the wild side of Africa in one day.
- A great opportunity to experience South African cuisine through the traditional Braai (BBQ) freshly prepared by you guide whilst you refresh with local beverages, wines & beers.
- Witness nature as it occurs natural with minimal human interference like natural ground water provision.
- An awesome opportunity to test your photography skills at any level, all welcome.
- Seat back, have your camera ready, relax and enjoy!
Location
Addo Elephant National Park - South Gate - Mathyolweni Gate
We meet at Matyholweni Reception, off the N2 in Colchester.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(101 Ratings)
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Birgit
Feb 26, 2025
Professional Enthusiastic Personal- an event - First of all: we were so excited about the Addo Tour that we booked a tour at Scotia Game Reserve afterwards , which was almost even better !
Joel is there with passion and expertise , plus his humorous , entertaining, enthusiastic manner . He not only reels off an 08/15 program , but also tries to make the tour a special event , including cooking demonstration at the Addo Tour . We took away from the 2 days many good experiences and conversations. We would definitely book him again.
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Foxglovesbear
Feb 18, 2025
Superb guided Addo visit - What a fabulous trip
Joel the guide was superb throughout and brought the trip and search for wildlife to life for us through his storytelling
Wildlife was abundant and sooooo close- incredible! Best trip we’ve done in ages!
Would not hesitate to recommend Joel at Africa sightings adventure for first class safari adventure.
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681962
Feb 11, 2025
Wonderful Daysafari with Joel Manjoko - We had a wonderful safari. Joel - our guide - did everything he could to make it perfect with his charming, funny manner. He has a special eye for finding the animals. In addition to all the wonderful animal encounters, he gave us lots of information about the animals' behavior and their habitats. With his cooking skills, he conjured up a delicious, traditional lunch for us that left nothing to be desired. This day safari was more than worth it. We can highly recommend Joel as a guide. True to his motto: Hakuna Matata - no problems. Thank you Joel for this wonderful day.
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Eliot_c
Jan 22, 2025
Great trip and guide. Don’t miss it - Joel was fantastic. He knew where to find all the animals; especially the elephants. Very knowledgeable and a pleasure to be with. The big unexpected surprise was a lunch banquet that he came with and cooked at at barbecue within the park. Great guide for sure
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Genevieve_c
Jan 15, 2025
The tour guide very... - The tour guide very informative and courteous.The lunch prepared and served was delicious. He was a few minutes late but drop us near the cruise ship and we didn’t have to walk far.
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978iral
Jan 13, 2025
Amazing experience with guide Steven! - Amazing experience with guide Steven! After having the opportunity to do several safari’s during our month in Africa visiting 4 countries, we can confidently advise travelers not to miss this tour with this company. They were professional and caring every step of the way. Big plus was the best safari lunch we had-a real treat! If you want to go experience elephants especially up close, this is the tour for you.
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533simonat
Jan 3, 2025
UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE ADDO ELEPHANT TOUR - What about a unique experience and a top organization. The tour is not to be told absolutely is the only advice I would give is to turn to AFRICAN SIGHTINGS ADVENTURE they picked us up from the hotel and from there we did not have to do anything except coderci the show. The gem was the lunch with barbecue attached Joel and Amos people of an uncommon delicacy and professionalism.
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W3229nnmarkh
Dec 10, 2024
Not only Elephants - We were greeted by Joel our guide for the day at the Port entrance he explained that although we had booked a private tour he would get us back to the ship on time explaining how the company’s worked together if anything was to go wrong on the trip. He was pleased that our ship wasn’t leaving till late and he would give us a good day without any time constraints. Water and binoculars were provided and the bus was made for 22 passengers but there are only 10 people on the trip so everyone had a great view. I was only expecting to see Elephants but we saw many other animals, it was amazing. We stopped for a BBQ lunch freshly cooked by Joel’s assistant along with wine and beer. If the morning was good then the afternoon was outstanding spotting many more animals.
I cannot recommend this company enough. Joel was very knowledgeable and he forwarded photographs of the day by email that he had taken with his new camera toy gifted by his family
Many thanks to Joel and his wife for a great day
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Mi972023
Dec 2, 2024
Amazing safari day - We loved our safari tour with Joel! We saw lions, zebras, elephants very close by, monkeys, warthogs, and antelopes.
The weather wasn’t the best but Joel cheered us up and it was absolutely worth it going there that day. We were very impressed with our lunch that Joel prepared/grilled for us. It was delicious and exceeded our expectations- he even had vegetarian food options that were amazing. We would book this trip again.
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Simon_l
Nov 30, 2024
A fantastic day out - 'It is what it is' as our guide/owner Joel would say. An entertaining full day out with plenty of animals to see, Joel was a knowledgeable, friendly guide looking after us and we couldn't fault any of it. Special mention to Amos for 'cheffing' the wonderful braai and Joel's wife for behind the scenes organization. A nice touch was the extensive collection of photos of the day Joel shared.
We will 'See you when we see you'.
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