TWO volunteers from America have started a programme that allows parents to make a quilt depicting the dreams they have for their children’s future.
Eileen Kugler, 59, and her husband, Larry, 60, organised the quilting programme at Addo’s AV Bukani Primary School in a bid to increase parent involvement at the school.
Eileen said: “There is a [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: The area of Addo, Sunlands and Kirkwood is referred to as “The citrus route”
With the annual Kirkwood festival a massive success, “The citrus route” has proved to all visitors from far and wide that the area of Addo, Sunlands and Kirkwood can stand proud as one of South Africa’s top visitor’s destinations.
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Avid birders should hurry to make their bookings for the Sasol Addo Birding Weekend which will be held in Addo Elephant National Park from 23 to 25 October 2009.
The weekend of birding will offer a wonderful opportunity to experience the diverse biomes of Addo Elephant National Park and the chance to spot over 400 bird [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: Cake decorating will never be the same! The “wildest” cake decorating competition in the Eastern Cape is taking place at the eighth year’s Absa Kirkwood Wildlife Festival in June.
Hosted by Sugar Dreams and the Dolphin Coast branch of the South African Cake Decorators Guild (SACDG), the competition is set to bring out the “wild [...]
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www.MyAddo.co.za: Kirkwood’s record-breaking annual wildlife auction will again be offering prize animals from the South African National Parks and other top reserves around the country.
“We are expecting 20 white rhino and 22 disease-free Addo Elephant National Park buffalo as the most prized game at the Kirkwood auction,” says auction organiser, Jan Pienaar. “This is probably [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: Kirkwood’s annual Absa Wildlife Festival is toasting the signing of another major corporate sponsor – Brandhouse Beverages, distributors of Windhoek and Heineken beers, and a range of premium spirit brands in South Africa.
“The three-year contract with brandhouse is a major achievement for the festival in these challenging economic times. It shows that the festival [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: Firefly Writes:
This past weekend we went on a trip to Addo Elephant Back Safaris in the Zuurberg Mountains. I took some great photos of elephants, spiders, mountains and all kind of things. Today I want to show a bit of what we did there and over the next couple of days I’ll show off [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: “Bring us your really ‘wild, wild, wacky and unusual’ products for the Absa Kirkwood Wildlife Festival” is the challenge thrown out by festival director Jenni Honsbein.
With most of the 300 stalls already taken up, she says the last few have been reserved for “something special and unusual – something that will have everyone talking [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: Pat and Bob are on a journey from Cape Town to the Garden Coast, the Winelands and a Safari in Addo. They say:
Addo is a national conservation project intended to re-create the environment as it was before Europeans came to Africa. Counting additions to the original tract established in the 1930’s Addo has grown [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: The Addo Elephant Park’s achievements and milestones of the past six months (April – September 2008):
Four spotted hyena and three lion cubs were born. Five cheetah cubs were born in the Kuzuko Contractual Area – the first cheetah ever to be born in the Park.
Addo Elephant National Park is home to more than half [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: Two bouts of fire in August and September have burnt vast tracts of the Zuurberg Mountain range in the Park. The fires burnt some 26 000 hectares of fynbos and grassland on the Zuurberg Mountains. Fire is a natural occurrence in both fynbos and grassland ecosystems and is vital for the proper functioning of [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: Spring is in the air and there is a brand new mountain bike race taking place in the Eastern Cape: “The Mondi Packaging Addo Mountain Bike Challenge”.
This 1-Day event will be held in the rugged Zuurberg Mountain region of the Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, on Saturday, 1st November 2008.
This race, billed as [...]
www.MyAddo.com: Around the world backpacker, David Lee wrote about his experiences in the Addo National Elephant Park recently:
After a nice self-catered breakfast on the backpacker’s patio, we motored to the gate and collected our maps of the park, complete with a checklist of the animals we hoped to see. No more than a few [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: Space is being reserved for craftspeople, artists and entrepreneurs who have something “unusual and different” to offer at the 2009 Absa Kirkwood Wildlife Festival – but the stalls are selling out fast, says festival director Jenni Honsbein.
“With over 35 000 visitors this year despite the economic downturn and high fuel prices, the majority of [...]
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www.MyAddo.co.za: Bigger, better and wilder entertainment is in store for you this June, when the 7th annual Wildlife Festival is held at Kirkwood in the Eastern Cape. Over 35 000 visitors attended the 2008 event, which is a unique blend of wildlife, arts, crafts and live entertainment. This year, organisers are promising an even wilder [...]