The Elephant Sanctuary Hartbeespoort Dam

Hartbeespoort, South Africa

The Elephant Sanctuary Hartbeespoort Dam is an elephant sanctuary providing a safe haven and "halfway house" for African elephants. It provides fully guided interactive educational programs covering elephant habits, dynamics, behavior and anatomy. The main focus of the sanctuary is to educate visitors about all aspects of elephants and elephant husbandry, with the vision to release elephants into an environment where they can be more independent. Visitors have the opportunity to touch, feed, walk trunk-in-hand with experienced guides. The sanctuary is situated in indigenous bushveld in the Magaliesberg Mountains in the North West Province of South Africa, 45 km from Johannesburg, 35 km from Pretoria. It is open to the public seven days a week year-round.

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