The third largest National Park in South Africa is well worth a visit and extremely affordable too. I spent the better part of two days in Addo Elephant National Park and here are 20 of my favourite wildlife images from those days.

The third largest National Park in South Africa is home to almost 700 elephants, zebra, kudu, eland, red haartebeest, buffalo, hyaena, lion and the flightless dung beetle, along with many other species and plenty of birdlife. It’s well worth a visit and extremely affordable too. It may be smaller than Kruger National Park, but it has so much to offer and because it is smaller, you have a better chance of seeing most of the Big Five in a day. I think it’s a park that everyone should get to!

I spent the better part of two days in Addo Elephant National Park and here are 20 of my favourite wildlife images from those days.

The quintessential elephant and car photo! Taken within 5 minutes of being in the park.
Elephant spotted at the waterhole from the Spekboom Hide.
You’ll see plenty of warthog in the park.
The ever-regal kudu are also a fairly common sighting.
The endangered flightless dung beetle has right of way!
Elephants often munch through the vegetation on the side of the road so take it easy around the bends!
Plenty of zebra to be spotted (or should that be striped?) too.
This juvenile hyaena was a lucky sighting!
These young Speckled Mousebirds kept us entertained at Jack’s Picnic Site.
Bone-spotting became a thing – I am sure the park officials just scatter them for fun, or the lions are very active!
This zebra was particularly brave at the watering hole…
… and then got a splashing!
A large herd of Red Hartebeest made for an impressive skyline.
There may be plenty of kudu, but you sometimes need to look into the bush to find them.
Another one of the many warthogs. I do love them though – they remind me of grey-bearded old men!
We were lucky enough to come across this herd at a watering hole, complete with a warthog in the mix!
And there it is, the newest addition to the herd. No not the warthog! A tiny baby elephant – only a few days old!
The safest place for a baby elephant to be.
And another photo! Baby elephants are just the sweetest thing…
To end off – because a baby zebra is possibly the second cutest baby to a baby elephant! 

Published August 2017 | Own cost