Knysna Elephant Park

After our trip into Wilderness, we drove on to see our first elephants! Knysna Elephant Park was the one on our way next. We would have liked to actually ride them. That would have been possible in Knysna, but we should have booked that in advance. So no riding and no sunset cruise. But Elephants!
We got a tour and food for them to feed. Knysna Elephant Park is a pretty small area, so it is more like a zoo than anything. And very very touristy. People come, get buckets of food, get put in a wagon behind a tractor and cruised some hundred meters into the field. The elephants have to sleeps indoors, in giant cages, because they would trample down the fences of the estate otherways.

During the day the elephants play around in the pond closeby and everytime a herd of humans comes to the barrier, they know they are getting fed.
So they come from the water, let the people feed them, some can be touched and the guide tells you to take pictures with them. You are supposed to stay close to the guide, because the elephants know them and they are wild animals after all. It's pretty much tourist-tide-over, but it is a chance to see elephants in close up, touch, feed, experience. Sebastian enjoyed it a lot, I didn't like our "German" guide. He didn't seem interested (understandable with I don't know how many tourists coming through there every day) and some of the answers he gave me turned out to be wrong.