Addo Elephant Park – Through the Interface

This is likely to be my last post of the year, so for those of you who are still reading this in 2017, I hope you have a peaceful, relaxing holiday season and a fantastic start to 2018. If I don’t manage to post sooner, I’ll certainly do so once back in Switzerland from our 6-month round-the-world trip (I’ll be back at work on January 5th in some capacity).

We were very excited about our visit to Addo Elephant National Park. While not the Kruger, it’s certainly a large, impressive park and the most easily accessible large park for us on this particular itinerary. And being somewhat less large it also has the benefit of being easier to explore, with an increased chance of seeing animals in a shorter time period.

We arrived in Addo on the afternoon of December 17, having visited the Daniell Cheetah Project on the way from the Karoo. The weather gradually came in as we approached the park…

Gloomy skies

It was due to rain that day, but we weren’t sure how much. We’d been camping for…

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