What a fantastic day!

I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy the classic African Game Park tour — but I loved it.

Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth …

It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier …

… expansion will mean not only that the park contains five of South Africa’s seven major vegetation zones (biomes), but also that it will be the only park in the world to house Africa’s “Big 7” (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, leopard, whale and great white shark) in their natural habitat.

Flora and fauna

More than 450 elephants, 400 Cape buffalo, over 48 endangered black rhino …

Lion and spotted hyena has also recently been re-introduced to the area.

The largest remaining population of the flightless dung beetle (Circellium bacchus) is located within the park. …

Most exciting was a rare sighting of the bar-eared fox – 4 of them. (VIDEO)

See my high resolution photos on flickr.