On our last full day at the reserve we decided to visit the nearby Addo Elephant National Park, home to over 450 elephants.

Seeing and experiencing a national park was an interesting comparison to Amakhala, particularly given the stories we had heard about how parks such as Kruger have become overrun with tourists and aggresive rangers who do not respect the bush. The main dfferences include the fact that the roads are mostly tar and that the public take their own cars into the park which means that if there is a sighting cars line up to get a look. This takes away from the magic of finding yourself face to face with an animal in the wild.

The highlight of the day was getting caught in a traffic jam of sorts behing three huge elephants who had decided to take an evening stroll in the middle of the road.