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Addo Elephant Park

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February 19th 2008
The Gaol runs regular day and weekend trips, so a bunch of us signed up for the trip to Addo Elephant Park on Sunday. There were 16 of us in total on the trip, mostly Americans, and we split up into two vans. It took about an hour and half to get to the park from Grahamstown, and the highway we drove seemed to be almost completely lined by other game parks; we were pretty excited to see a giraff ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Eastern Cape » Addo Elephant National Park

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more