Addo Elephant National Park

As planned, we were staying in a forest cabin in Addo Elephant National Park. The cottage was much like a Finnish summer cottage: it was made of wood and it had a simple path room. There was no kitchen, but a communal kitchen was just around the corner.If there had been a kitchen, you could have cooked a fine meal of all the bugs you found in the cottage. There were lots of them! Here's a picture takes from the outside of the cottage. It was impossible to get a better picture because the cottage was surrounded by thick bushes. Notice the fridge on the terrace!

We had thought, that it would have been more primitive there, but it really wasn't. Cleaning ladies came every morning to your cottage to wipe the floor, wash the sink in the path room, make your bed, take the trash out and on some days they even did our dishes!

There was a tourist shop, where you could also buy some food stuff, and a restaurant in a walking distance, where you could have your African food experience by having for example a kudu stea. (I'll introduce kudu to you later). For now I haven't eaten any of the African animals, so I can't tell you how it tastes like.

The wide (and luckily fenced) game area was right next to our cottage. There you could go driving around in your car and see the animals. And I can assure you, there are a lot of animals there! You also could go on a guided game drive in a big safari car.

On those days when you just felt like relaxing, you could go to the pool and enjoy the sun. Not so many people went there, so usually you got to be all alone there. If you were lucky, you could get company from the tortoises that crawled into the pool area.

As a conclusion, I have to tell, that the service in the park was very professional, kind and trustworthy. There was nothing to complain about, but so many things to thank about.