Addo - the South & Plan C

After a quiet night at the lodge we started to explore the Southern part of Addo Elephant NP. And we were welcomed straight away from a family of Buffalos! The closest we have seen them so far! On our second loop we passed by a tree full of monkeys! Some of them carrying little ones…super cute! We passed by zebras, warthogs, red hartebeest and kudus. And when we entered the Northern part we saw again plenty of elephants far away in the trees having lunch. We arrived at one of the park’s waterhole and saw an elephant family arriving for a drink. So cute to see the little still trying out how to drink with the trunk 😃
More and more elephants arrived, it seemed to be a gathering. Suddenly we saw a big shade passing in front of our car. An elli just came across the road and used the gap in between us and the car in front of us. Suddenly a second one arrived. Quite “excited” as you can see on the video 🤣.
Plenty of dung beetles were crawling around the streets, some with dung. So funny those hard workers.
We spent our afternoon in the parks steakhouse to sort out Plan C for our holidays. The original plan didn’t work out and BOBO Camper had no Plan B and therefore cancelled our booking - neither reparation nor backup vehicles…Very bad service. The suggested Plan B - traveling by rental car wasn’t our favorite either. So we looked for Plan C by hiring last minute a camper from another provider. Nothing small available, so we had to go or a 7m camper then. The only problem was that they are all based in Cape Town so it takes them a while to bring it over. All the paperwork we managed to sort out with the help of all gadgets from our iPhones🙈

We returned to Port Elizabeth, checked in a cute lodge with a nice host (who drives also a Caddy Alltrack like us at home). He gave us plenty of tips for our journey to Cape Town. We had dinner at a nice Sushi Restaurant and felt a bit less disappointed than yesterday morning. Plan D seemed to work as of Thursday!👍😎Les mer