Walking the elephant
Knysna South Africa
Posting old photos using various camera phones taken during my travels. filtering in black and white (obviously) and currently focusing on usa parks
Walking the elephant
Aussie adventurer that lives life to the max Roaming the globe. Photos are all original 🇦🇺. Currently kicking and ripping it across the USA this July 2022. Any questions and or feedback is always welcome View all posts by Dave King
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It’s Addo elephant park right !!!
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We in South Africa have the famous Knysna forest elephants, also elsewhere, not just at Addo.
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It’s a interesting and fun park, love traveling the southern region of South Africa 🙂
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That’s the one (I think) a few years ago now 🙂
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OMG!! We did that also when we went to S.A. It was amazing. We did ours in Johannesburg. We walked with elephants for over an hour.
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Can’t think of a better country to visit if one wants to walk and elephant 🙂
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Elephants don’t have a natural enemy now and the excess population in Botswana saw numbers rise from 13k to 40k and nature just cannot take the punch. Lovely as they are, the can also decimate the environment and threaten the survival of so many other species. The situation is getting untenable.
Sadly, the Knysna elephants are hardly ever seen. Rangers and foresters working thousands of square kilometres will be lucky to see but one in a lifetime in that expansive, very dense ancient natural forest.
To see them in the wild, go to Addo, or the Kruger National Park or also Pilanesberg nature reserve. Both Addo and Pilanesberg are malaria free.
However, we have the Big Five roaming wild within a radius of less than 250km from Cape Town. And as near as about 100km on the West Coast and at Fairie Glen in the picturesque Brandwacht mountains in nearby Worcester. Excellent for a photo safari.
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I didn’t know that thank you for the information. Haven’t travelled much of Africa but hope to one day. I loved the Addo Sanctuary and dream of getting to Kruger 🙂
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Do consider the sanctuaries near Cape Town as well, there are a few such as Aquila, Inverdoorn, Faerie Glen, etc. People wanting to see the big cats are best advised to visit Kalahari / Kgalakgadi https://www.sanparks.org/parks/kgalagadi/
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If I head back there I’ll be sure to do some more. It was a few years ago when I travelled the south and west of Cape Town. Amazing 🙂
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Here is Fairie Glen. I grew up very close by and hiked in those mountains often. https://fairyglen.co.za/
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Thanks Pete 🙂
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