Runcation - Addo Elephant Trail Run 2019

Group Tour for 12 nights in South Africa, starting in Cape Town, racing in a Big 5 wildlife reserve at Addo Elephant Trail Run, followed by a conservation Safari in the malaria free Eastern Cape, and ending with an exploration of the coastal woodlands of the Alexandria Trail.

Enjoy a Runcation in South Africa based around one of the events at Addo Elephant Trail Run. We’ll begin our trip with some low key running and sightseeing in Cape Town, before heading to the Eastern Cape to acclimatise. Addo has the oldest 100 miler in South Africa, and also offers 76km and 44km options. There is a 5km fun run too, so kids and less serious runners can also get a feel for running in an African game reserve. Don’t worry, although Addo Elephant National Park has the Big 5, we’ll run in a section where there is no dangerous game.

After the event, we’ll head to nearby Amakhala Game Reserve, home of the African Rhino Conservation Collaboration, ARCC. While here we’ll enjoy delicious cuisine and 5 star game drives, as well as flush out our race legs among antelope and zebra on the reserve. The highlight of our time at Amakhala will be the day spent at ARCC. We’ll learn learning about the South Africa’s poaching crisis, including very personal accounts of the poaching on Amakhala and surrounding reserves. Thankfully there is an international collaborative effort that has emerged in response to the crisis, and we’ll get to see where ARCC fits into this.