Port Elizabeth Addo Elephant National Park All Inclusive Safari
Description
Enjoy a Game Drive (Safari) in Addo Elephant National Park in a comfortable closed vehicle. Home to the Big 5 - Elephant, Lion, Buffalo, Leopard and Rhino. Addo Elephant Park(Malaria-free) is the third largest National Park in South Africa 176 000 hectares. Home to plus minus 700 Elephants, which is one of the most densest Elephant populations in the world. We will enter the park via the South Gate Mathyolweni entrance which is only 30 minutes from Port Elizabeth. We will explore the South Section before heading North to the Main Camp where we will have lunch, visit the visitor centre and curio shop and unwind. After lunch we will head back in to the park via the main camp and explore the North section stopping at scenic look out points. Cruiseliner guests welcome with direct harbour pick up and drop off tailored to the cruiseliner schedule.
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Pickup Locations & Times
The tour does include a pick up from any location in Port Elizabeth, Bluewater Bay, Colchester, The Matyholweni Gate of the Addo Elephant Park, the town of Addo and the Addo Elephant Park Main Camp. Please specify your accommodation at the time making the reservation. One of our staff members will contact you the day before your tour to confirm the exact pick up time.
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Important Information
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(27)
Our guide was extremely attentive and worked hard to make us feel comfortable. He obviously is very experienced. We were picked up on time and also brought back to the airport without delay as agreed in communication beforehand. The tour itself was excellent. We could see many animals and profit from our guide's knowledge of the park and its animals. The park is vast and it is definitely worth seeing the animals in their natural habitat.
The tour was enjoyable from start to finish. Carlin was a wonderful guide and always makes sure you are comfortable and willing to adhere to any request. We saw many animals including 3 of the big 5.
It was a great experience Very attentive guide and knew a lot about the park and about the animas! Worth it
Wonderful views of elephants, but let down very badly by the vehicle provided. 4 tourists in a family sized car, with extra seating at rear, totally unsuitable for safari, as no-one wanted to sit in the rear, with no opening windows, very frustrating not being able to photograph the animals, which caused friction between the tourists. I would not have gone had I known we were going in a family sized car. Because of the atmosphere caused by the unhappy co-passengers, we were not able to enjoy this day which we had been looking forward to for so long, very disappointed.
We are glad you got good views on the Elephant. Apologies if you thought the vehicle was not up to stand it is however a 6 seater. We are in the process of finding a supplier to fit open windows at the rear.
Had a wonderful time exploring Addo Elephant National Park with my tour guide Ricarrdo from Carlin’s tours. Entering the park through Matyholweni entrance and getting all the way to the main gate to have some lunch at the Cattle Baron restaurant and back to the Matyholweni entrance. Inside the park I had an opportunity to see a lot of Elephants and other animals like the zebras, warthogs, Nyala, Buffalo, ostrich, tortoise etc. Though it was a pity not to have seen lions, the whole experience was really nice and I plan to definitely go back there again with my family.
It was great experience. We were picked up on time and the guide was knowledgeable. Our daughter spotted 15 animals and it was awesome. We all learnt a thing or 2 from our guide.
No leopard in sight as its nor in park. Only saw lion barely, and buffalo. tour guide was v nice and gave good talks about the park.
Dreamlike tour with many great impressions with many stops to take photos All around an experience
We had a great time at Addo with a amazing guide in Carlin. He shared lots of knowledge of the park and the area. 10 out of 10, highly recommend.
Overall disappointing and price-performance ratio not OK. Departure at the port has been delayed by almost an hour because guests were still being "fished" to fill the minibus. Windows only partially open, contrary to the announcement no open 4x4 vehicles. Despite indication that we can "put the lost time at the back" the return trip was scheduled on time. At lunch (which we would have liked to have done without) again long wait which was missing for the safari. With the animals, the fact is that due to the nature of the park there are NO giraffes and also NO lions. A single water buffalo and no rhinos. It is a pure elephant park in the day. So definitely not a safari mood. It would easily have been possible to book an open 4 x 4 safari at short notice at the port with other providers for less money. Our intervention and criticism was only addressed by the guide on appearances. The Company did not respond to our complaint.
The park does have the Big 5, its nature sightings are not guaranteed its not a zoo. There was no fishing don,thats a total lie. Im not sure where you saw that😲. Addo only has animals thats endemic to the area that's why there's no Giraffes. You need to read the tour description. No where does it say its a open air vehicle.
