If it's elephants you are after, there's nowhere in Africa to match Addo Elephant National Park, just east of Port Elizabeth.

Highlights:

• This evocative park is possibly the most diverse on earth as it includes five of the seven vegetation types in South Africa - and all the birds and animals to go with them.
• There are coastal forests, dunefields, marine islands, a section of arid Karoo, and rolling hills of cycads and proteas.
• Addo is touted as a Big Seven park, boasting the Big Five terrestrial animals as well as whales and Great White Sharks.
• It's also a malaria-free area. So if it's diversity you're after, there's nowhere else comparable to Addo.

If you love the great outdoors, bright blue skies and the warm African sun, South Africa's national parks together offer all of Africa in one country. There's everything you could imagine, and then some. Choosing just one park to visit could be difficult…