A virtual tour through the beautiful South Africa🚙🚌🚐🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 On this page we visit the Wild Coast and Eastern Cape of South Africa. I will be happy to assist you in arranging a tailor made holiday which suits you. Self-drive or guided whichever suits you best 🚙🚌🚐🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Day 9 of our virtual tour and we visit Addo Elephant National Park and discover its abundance of wildlife. The park proudly conserves the Big 7 within its vast borders.
The original section of the park was founded in 1931 in order to provide a sanctuary for the 11 remaining elephants in the area. The park has proved to be very successful and currently houses more than 600 elephants and a large number of other mammals. Adoo is also known for the abundance of dungbeetles in the park.
The concept of the BIG 7 Safari was born when the Addo Elephant National Park extended its boundries to include the Alexandria dunefields, the largest aeolian dune fields (wind driven) in the southern hemisphere and which fringe the northern shoreline of Algoa Bay. The Park expanded further to incorporate the off shore islands of St Croix, the largest of three at 2.8 hectare and the Bird Island group of which Bird Island is the biggest. The waters between these two groups of Islands, a marine protected area, is also incorporated into the managment programs of the Addo Elephant National Park and it is in these waters that we have the opportunity to watch marine mammals such as the prolific populations of Dolphins, in particular the Bottlenose Dolphin as well as the great Whales which migrate into these warmer, calm waters between the end of May and December each year. An abundance of marine wildlife inhabits these Islands and their surrounding waters including the Great White and other species of Sharks.
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