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Elephant Back Safaris are the most unique way of knowing and understanding Africa and its wildlife. Elephant Back Safaris provide an entirely different perspective to animal watching anywhere, specially in South Africa.
Safaris on elephant back in South Africa provide a very rare insight into the life of the African bush because elephants, even if they are carrying humans are considered by the other inhabitants as part of the web of life in the South African bushland. Hence even animals which are normally elusive or are startled by human approach in any other way are generally unperturbed by the elephants, and allow themselves to be observed and even photographed with relative ease. Moreover accessibility of certain areas is more assured on an elephant than on any other vehicle simply because they have evolved to suit life in such areas.
Elephant back safaris in South Africa are organized in almost every national park and nature reserve of South Africa, the most famous being the Kruger National Park. But the real interaction with elephants can only be experienced at either the Addo Elephant National Park and the Abu Camp at Okovango Delta. These two places provide the most unusual, in-depth understanding of the elephant life and culture. These intelligent and warmly social animals do have a hierarchy and a living cultural tradition that helps in their survival in these beautiful but harsh terrain. At least three options of timings for interaction with the elephants are scheduled; at sunrise, sunset and midmorning. Not only riding them but walking the bush with them and a touch and feel encounter is built into the program. Refreshments are also provided.
In short elephant back safaris of South Africa give birth to wonderful memories which linger a lifetime in ones heart. Elephant Back Safaris thus make the visitors honorary members of these elephant tribes with a rare respect for the largest land mammal on the Earth.
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