Watch shy animals on one of the park’s best routes

Woodlands Road is considered one of the best self-drive routes in Addo Elephant National Park. The open vegetation with scattered thickets and bushes offers you wide sightlines right to the surrounding hills. Here you have excellent chances of spotting both large wildlife and rare, shy species that are hardly seen elsewhere.

The tarmac road leads you through expansive bushland where common eland, brown hyenas, black rhinoceros, African bush elephants, lions and African buffalo live. This route is particularly valuable for sightings of smaller, shy species: Cape scrub hares, bat-eared foxes, South African springhares, yellow mongooses and meerkats are regularly seen here. For birdwatchers, Woodlands Road also offers an outstanding diversity of species.