Swimming Elephants Of Addo

Addo Elephants offer guests a chance sighting as they show off the excellent swimming skills. Elephants visit the Addo waterholes in order to quench their large thirsts (100 litres on average per day) and they are often seen spraying water on themselves or swimming to reduce their core temperature and this is usually followed by a dust bath in order to create a mud layer which serves to form a barrier against parasites or insects and the African sun.