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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
http://www.addo-accomodation.co.za/kirkwood.html 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 [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: Lindy Greaves wrote recently about her families’ trip to the Addo National Elephant Park (see extract below). The animal viewing was stunning. We thought we’d struck it bad because we hit an unusual heat wave and had been told the animals would be hiding in the bushes. Well, maybe we could have seen other [...]
www.MyAddo.co.za: Photographer Fiona Ayerst recently did a photographic shoot with a production company from Dubai about the animals of the Addo Elephant Park. Fiona writes; “The gorgeous presenter Danyah was so easy to shoot.” Images of Danyah Port Elizabeth Budget Accommodation Go to:My Addo
www.MyAddo.co.za: Natalie from Leicestershire in the United Kingdom wrote; “The park is VAST, covering 164,000 hectares and houses the big 5. We only saw elephants out of the 5 today, but boy did we see a lot of them. Must have been at least 40.” Hello! South Africa Port Elizabeth Budget Accommodation Go to:My Addo
Melissa G. in her blog, Study Abroad in the Rainbow Nation wrote the following about her recent trip to Addo: On Sunday we all went to Addo Elephant National Park and Scotia Game Reserve to finally see wild (or as wild as we are going to manage to see) African animals. We had to get [...]
