Addo Elephant National Park in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Discover ... Experience ... Explore ... A world of diversity in one Park. Now the third largest National Park in South Africa, Addo Elephant National Park has expanded to conserve a wide range of biodiversity, landscapes, fauna and flora.
Accommodation
Addo Elephant National Park offers a range of accommodation types. The list below offers a brief description of what the Park offers. For more comprehensive information on accommodation types, including photographs of the facilities and more detail on how the units are equipped, please refer to our website.
Camps
Addo Rest Camp
The popular main rest camp of the Park offers a wide variety of accommodation units to suit all tastes and plenty of activities to keep visitors busy. A unique feature is the waterhole lookout point situated inside the camp and which is floodlit at night, as well as the underground hide, allowing close encounters with wildlife at the waterhole.
Spekboom Tented Rest Camp
Spend a night in the middle of the bush, listening to the sounds of the wild around you. You may catch a glimpse of nocturnal animals drinking at the nearby waterhole, gaze at the starry skies and enjoy simply being away from it all. The tents are located in the fenced area of the Spekboom Hide inside the Park's game viewing area.
Facilities include:
- Communal kitchen and bathrooms
- Each tent site has its own braai stand
Matyholweni Rest Camp
'Matyholweni', which means "in the bush" in Xhosa and is located near the coastal village of Colchester at the Sundays River Mouth. Only 3km off the N2 highway, Matyholweni is easily accessible and provides a second gateway into the Park. Amenities such as banks, shops, restaurants and a fuel station are available in the nearby village. Each unit has its own braai stand.
Narina Bush Camp
For a secluded experience in a magical forest, spend some time at Narina Bush Camp at the foot of the Zuurberg Mountains and on the banks of the Wit River. The road to Narina is a gravel road of approximately 25 kilometres and even though it is not necessary to have a 4x4 to access it, a high ground clearance vehicle is needed to travel this road.
Facilities include:
- Communal kitchen and bathrooms
- Each unit has its own braai stand
Kabouga
This section of the Park is surrounded by rugged mountains and densely fragrant vegetation.
Kabouga Cottage:
An old reservoir serves as a swimming pool for those hot days in the valley. There is an outside braai site and visitors must provide their own wood.
Mvubu Campsite:
One hot water shower (paraffin-powered) and one flush toilet available. There are braai sites and visitors must provide their own firewood.
Woody Cape
Situated within the magnificent Alexandria Forest, the two Langebos Huts are popular with birders, those who enjoy escaping to a private destination under a canopy of trees and others who just wish to "get away from it all". Prospective visitors with a special interest in botany, trees, ferns and mushrooms will also delight in using this accommodation as their base from where to explore the forest and the coast. They are booked "simultaneously", meaning visitors have the entire camp to themselves - even if they don't book the second hut.
- Each unit has its own braai stand
- The Woody Cape Guesthouse is available to hikers on the two-day Alexandria Hiking Trail
Luxury Lodges
"Indulgence" and "comfort" come to mind when viewing the concession lodges and suites that are to be found in a number of SANParks camps and Parks. These lodges form part of a suite of products known as SANParks "Golden Kudus", where luxury is the order of the day.
Things To See
- Lion (found mostly in the southern section of the Park)
- Herds of elephant at Hapoor dam
- The Interpretive Centre at Main Camp
- The picturesque Zuurberg Mountain
- The rolling sand dunes of the Woody Cape section
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