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| Home / Articles / Wildlife / Wildlife Safaris in South Africa: The Eastern Cape |
| Wildlife Safaris in South Africa: The Eastern Cape |
One of the main attractions of the Eastern Cape is to view the Big 5 on a South African Wildlife safari in a malaria-free environment. Eastern Cape is a great province to have a safari and Beach holiday in South Africa.
It is also prefectly situated if you're combining a Cape Town Holiday or a Garden Route tour on your South African travels.
So, what makes the Eastern Cape a special safari destination: Those gentle giants, the African Elephant!
POPULAR GAME RESERVES:
Addo Elephant National Park
The most popular game reserve in the Eastern Cape, where you can view over 350 of these majestic giants up close. In the evenings you’ll hear the howl of the black-backed jackal, with francolins waking you at dawn. Addo Elephant National Park is home to not only elephants, but also Cape buffalo, black rhino, a variety of antelope species, and unique flightless dung beetle, indigenous to Addo.
Mountain Zebra National Park
Another Popular Park in this province is the with it’s rolling plains and deep valleys, home to the Cape mountain zebra with a current population of 350.Also grazing the park are eland, red hartebeest, black wildebeest and gemsbok.
Shamwari Game Reserve
The Southernmost, Big Game, private malaria-free reserve in Africa. Shamwari stretches along the Bushman's river, midway between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown, forming a natural extension to the Garden Route. Covering 25 000 hectaresd Shamwari prides itself in conserving a vanishing way of life, and is a winner of a number of International award s in tourism and conservation.
Pumba Game Reserve
Set in a remarkable setting amongst five of the world’s seven biomes, Pumba Private Game Reserve has a lot to offer. Not only is it set in a malaria-free part of the Eastern Cape, it also provides easy access to big 5 game viewing, just outside historical Grahamstown, a mere 105 km from Port Elizabeth.
Spanning 6 000 hectares, the reserve hosts a variety of game including giraffe, zebra, hippo, cheetah, warthog, hyena and wild dog. The reserve also allows you the opportunity to view the sometimes forgotten smaller wildlife including the scrub hare, ant-bear, Cape fox and aardwolf, as well as a selection of antelope. Roaming white lions are also a major draw-card of Pumba.
Read more about Game lodges & safari accommodation in the Eastern Cape
OTHER GAME RESERVES IN THE EASTERN CAPE:
Amakhala Game Reserve
Baviaanskloof Wilderness
Blaauwbosch Game Reserve
Bosberg Nature Reserve
Bucklands Game Reserve
Bushman Sands Reserve
Camdeboo National Park
Cape Recife Nature Reserve
Dwesa & Cwebe Reserves
East London Coast Reserve
Great Fish River Reserve
Groenendal Wilderness Area
Hluleka Nature Reserve
Kariega Game Reserve
Koffylaagte Game Reserve
Kwantu Game Reserve
Lalibela Game Reserve
Luchaba Nature Reserve
Mkambati Nature Reserve
Oviston Nature Reserve
Sibuya Game Reserve
Silaka Nature Reserve
Thomas Baines Nature Reserve
Tsolwana Game Reserve
Woody Cape Nature Reserve |
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