Tembe Elephant Park Waterhole - KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

In the far north of KwaZulu-Natal, close to the border with Mozambique, this waterhole in Tembe Elephant Park draws some of the biggest elephants on Earth out of the thick bush.

The park was set up in 1983 on the traditional land of the Tembe people, and it covers about 116 square miles (300 km²). Its elephants once wandered freely between here and southern Mozambique, where about 200 of their relatives still live in the Maputo Elephant Reserve.

Around 250 elephants live in the park today, and they're said to be the largest in the world, while lions, buffalo and many kinds of antelope come down to the water too.

Did You Know? One of Tembe's bulls, Isilo, was the largest living tusker in the Southern Hemisphere until he died in 2014.

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