Addo Elephant National Park Game Drive & Sunset River Cruise

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Free cancellation

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Duration11h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Hunt for 700 free-roaming elephants and the Big 5 across open savanna, then drift downriver as light fades.

A full-day guided game drive and river cruise in Addo Elephant National Park, a malaria-free reserve home to roughly 700 elephants, zebra, kudu, warthog and the Big 5. The tour includes park entry, an air-conditioned vehicle with a professional guide, bottled water and tea, and ends with a sunset cruise on the Sundays River watching for birds and game. Minimum two persons; single travellers pay a supplement.

11h

Step-by-step itinerary

Game drive and sunset river cruise

Game drive in Addo Elephant National Park
Sunset river cruise on Sundays River

The Experience

The day starts with a game drive through Addo Elephant National Park, where the landscape opens across grassland and scrub thick with wildlife. You'll move slowly through the reserve in an air-conditioned vehicle with a professional guide who knows where the elephants congregate and what the smaller animals—dung beetles, kudu, warthog, ostrich—signal about the season and the hour. The park sits malaria-free, which means no medication worries before you go. Bottled water and tea travel with you, and park entry fees are already settled.

As the afternoon light softens, you leave the game drive and board the Sundays River for a sunset cruise. The boat moves slowly downstream, and the guide watches the banks and the water for birds and any game that comes down to drink as day turns to dusk. This is a different kind of watching—stationary, quieter, the river itself part of the rhythm instead of the vehicle's movement. The cruise closes the day as the light merges into shadow.

Vehicle type is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis: the operator aims to assign 4x4 Landcruisers to these tours, but a seat on a 4x4 cannot be guaranteed. If a Landcruiser is not available, you'll be assigned to another tour vehicle. The tour runs 11 hours total. A minimum of four persons is required; if you're travelling alone, a single supplement applies.

What’s included

Park entry and conservation fees.
professional guided game drive.
air-conditioned vehicle.
bottled water and tea.
sunset river cruise on the Sundays River.

Good to know

Easy physical levelInfant seats available

Operated by Alan Tours

Is this one for you?Choose this shared group drive if you want a guide who knows where the wildlife congregates; book private if you need to set your own pace or route through the park.