I’ve always been put off going to Addo Elephant National Park. I was told the bush is too dense, that all you see is spekboom and no game – especially not predators – but I don’t know which park these naysayers are referring to. Surprising in its diversity, sublime across every single landscape (even the thick, spekboom-filled ones) and gentle with its ambitious future, the Addo I found is a pure delight.
Elephants are easily the biggest drawcard, and an exceptionally charming one at that, but this incredible park is a diversity hotspot offering pockets of pristine, wild, gin-coloured mountain streams that you can swim in, vital marine ecosystems, plus popular big mammals that include black-maned Kalahari lions. When nature puts on a show like this, you’ve got to turn…
