Kruger National Park
The world-famous Kruger National Park boasts a wildlife experience that ranks with the best in Africa. Founded in 1898 to protect the wildlife of the South African Lowveld, this national park has about 2 million hectares; Kruger National Park is unsurpassed in the variety of its life forms and a world leader in environmental management.
Kruger is hover to an immense number of species: about 340 trees, 50 fish, 35 amphibians, 115 reptiles, 510 birds and 150 mammals. Very obvious in the Kruger National Park is the human interaction with the environment over many centuries. One can find here bushman rock paintings as well as stately archaeological sites like Masorini and Thulamela. These values represent the cultures, persons and events that had any significance in the history of the Kruger National Park.
Main Attractions in Kruger National Park:
• The Big Five - Buffalo, Elephant, Leopard, Lion and Rhino.
• The Little Five - Buffalo Weaver, Elephant Shrew, Leopard Tortoise, Ant Lion and Rhino Beetle.
• Birding Big Six - Ground Hornbill, Kori Bustard, Lappet- faced Vulture, Martial Eagle, Pel's Fishing Owl and Saddle-bill Stork.
• Five Trees - Baobab, Fever Tree, Knob Thorn, Marula, Mopane.
• Five Natural/Cultural Features - Letaba Elephant Museum, Jock of the Bushveld Route, Maserini Ruins, Stevenson Hamilton Memorial Library, Thulamela.
Addo Elephant National Park
It is located 72 km from Port Elizabeth in the Sundays River Valley and Zuurberg Mountain range. The road, which lead to it is tarred as far as the rest camp. As for the roads within the camp, they are tarred too. All the rest internal roads are gravel.
The main reason why tourist come to the Addo Elephant National Park is that there are about 350 of African elephants. Another reason is the presence of the black rhino and cape buffalo but they are likely to encounter at night. You can also see the flightless dung beetle, a species unique to the Addo region and that feeds on the excrement of the large hoofed animals.
Here you may view many other large herbivores, especially antelope species such as kudu, eland, red hartebeest and springbok.
Moreover, the park is now stretching to the shores of the Indian Ocean, whales and dolphins will widen the viewing opportunities. You can look for smaller mammals, for example, family groups of suricate or meerkat.
Addo's bird viewing is possible in excellent habitat between dense bushes of Spekboom with open grassy territories and woody kloofs. Throughout the Addo rest camp such species as karoo and cape robin, bokmakierie, southern tchagra and cape bunting can be observed.
If you head for the game viewing area you will not encounter an excess of birds, though some species may be seen (bokmakierie, and martial eagle, black korhaan and secretarybird). In the wooded kloofs of the Zuurberg, you may view crowned eagles breed. It is common to encounter olive bush shrike, yellowthroated warbler and cape batis in the forest areas.
Cape Peninsula National Park
The Cape Peninsula National Park covers the incredibly picturesque Peninsula mountain chain stretching from Signal Hill in the north to Cape Point in the south - a distance of approximately 60 km. The narrow line of land with its beautiful valleys, bays and beaches is surrounded by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the False Bay in the east.
It has two world-famous sites; they are the majestic Table Mountain and the legendary Cape of Good Hope, covered with mysteries, myths and legends. These were both important landmarks for the early explorers.
Cape Point can be accessed by foot or by funicular, while visitors to the summit of the majestic and famous Table Mountain can be taken by cableway facility. Hover to 570 pairs of the endangered African penguin, Boulders is another attraction for visitors.
The Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain (outside the Cape Peninsula National Park) is a marvelous refuge of indigenous plants.
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