Daily Tours leave on the half hour every day from 8:30 - 16:30 from our interactive visitors’ centre. Here you will be welcomed by our well-trained and informative guides, and after viewing a short video presentation, our tractor and trailer will drive you through the fields to the ellies. Here you will have the opportunity to touch, feed and photograph our gentle giants. Elephants love eating, so don’t forget your bucket of elephant feed! There are no barriers or fences to spoil your close encounter, and when the elephants choose to wander off into the field you are welcome to stay and watch them for as long as you wish.

Our Elephant Back Rides offer you the once in a lifetime opportunity to ride one of these incredible creatures. After a briefing, our friendly guides will transport you down to the Lapa with its spectacular views of the Outeniqua mountain range. You will be able to appreciate these views even more atop of our ellies as you ride through indigenous Cape fynbos. This amazing experience is rounded off with refreshments on your return to the Lapa.

This awe-inspiring experience of following the elephants’ footsteps is very similar to the Elephant Back Rides, except here you choose to walk with them at their pace. The guided nature walk takes you through indigenous Cape fynbos and offers spectacular views of the Outeniqua mountain range and Knysna forest. This is a spiritual experience whichleaves one humbled and moved, it concludes with refreshments at the Lapa.

Knysna Elephant Park’s extended elephant-experience offering includes accommodation. With the natural beauty of the Park in the heart of the Garden Route, it makes for the perfect stayover. And what a privilege it is to witness the elephants waking up in the morning, or settling down into their nighttime routine ….