350kms to cover today. More of the same scenery wise today except we took a journey on a perticulalry empty toll road for part of the journey. There were signs around warning of baboons and warnings that stopping to feed them would incur a 500 rand fine. I have no idea why you would want to interact with a baboon though!
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| Do not feed |
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| Empty toll road. |
After passing through a very industrious looking Port Elizabeth, we left the N2 and headed for Addo. I didn't particularly like the first 10 kilometres as we found ourselves driving through more townships with dwellings ranging from reasonable small houses to rundown wooden shelters. Carrier bags had blown everywhere and were anchored to fences and shrubs. Many people were walking along either side of the road and some were getting onto taxi type mini-vans. The next 40 kilometres after that were pretty empty and sparse.
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| The road to Addo. |
With 830 kilometres behind us we made it to Addo national park
http://www.sanparks.org/parks/addo/.
Soon after checking in and settling down into our safari tent, Eri
spotted our first elephant in the distance from our balcony. We also saw
a warthog. Later the elephant came much closer too. At 5pm we set off for our sunset safari. We sat on an open sided truck
with other people and our driver took us around the park and stopped
every now and then at something of interest while the guide told us some information. Whilst we were out for the 2 hours we saw kudu, zebra, black headed heron, warthog, blue crane, 3 elephants at a watering hole, scrub hares, a jackal and a black rhino.
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| View from our tent. |
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| Our first Addo elephant sighting. |
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| Erika watching the elephant from our safari tent porch. |
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| Red hartebeest |
Upon our return we went to the restaurant and I had bobotie (
a South African dish consisting of spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping) whilst Erika had a venison stew. Now as I sit here writing this at 21:30, i can hear the sounds from the nearby watering hole. Unfortunately I can also hear some americans camping nearby ruining the peace. Is it really necessery to speak so loud and say 'like' every other word in a sentance?
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| Bobotie |
Upon our return we went to the restaurant and I had bobotie (a South African dish consisting of spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping) whilst Erika had a venison stew. Now as I sit here writing this at 21:30, i can hear the sounds from the nearby watering hole. Unfortunately I can also hear some americans camping nearby ruining the peace. Is it really necessery to speak so loud and say 'like' every other word in a sentance?
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