🙂 Amazing to feel their skin, bristles and to appreciate their enormous size!
🙁 We rode horses there in 2009 and the horses were not in great condition – however, management has changed so hopefully improved.
We have thoroughly enjoyed this elephant interaction at Kwa Madwala which is based near Hectorspruit. The training techniques are based on the principles of trust, ask and reward which is the total opposite to the methods used in India where the actual spirit of the elephant is broken.
- Morning elephant experiences are conducted between 6.00-9.00am in the summer and between 7.00-10.00am in the winter.
- Afternoon elephant experiences are conducted between 15.30-18.30 in the summer and 14.30-17.30 in the winter.
- An additional time slot has been made available for elephant interaction experiences only, which are now conducted between 10.00am and 12.30pm throughout the year.
2009
2010
We also rode here but the horses were not in the best condition.
2012
2016
In 2016 we took Andy, Libby, GranDad and Judy and Sally to experience the Elephant Encounter – they loved it as much as we do!