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Addo's main rest camp sits at the park's main entrance, overlooking a floodlit waterhole with both a lookout platform and an underground hide. Addo protects one of the world's densest elephant populations — numbers have recovered to over 600 from as few as 16 after hunting nearly wiped them out by 1919-1920 — and, unlike Kruger, sits in the malaria-free Eastern Cape.
What sets it apart
A malaria-free self-drive park with an elephant-viewing hide built directly into the main camp.
Who it suits
Self-drive visitors wanting elephant density without a malaria-risk destination.
The essentials
| Country | South Africa |
| Where | Inside Addo Elephant National Park, main entrance gate, ~72km from Gqeberha |
| Property type | SANParks self-catering rest camp |
| Rooms | A mix of guest houses, chalets, cottages, safari tents and camping; no numeric breakdown published |
| Malaria | Addo sits in the malaria-free Eastern Cape; not directly stated on the SANParks pages fetched, but corroborated by multiple nearby private lodges explicitly describing the region as malaria-free. |
What it costs
No fixed accommodation rate is published here — SANParks' booking engine wasn't reachable this session. A separate daily conservation/entry fee is published (SA residents from R110/adult; international visitors R492/adult, valid Nov 2025-Oct 2026) — this is an entry fee, not an accommodation rate, and the two should not be confused.
About the photographs
The pictures on this page are stock photographs chosen to suggest the kind of setting this property is in. They are not photographs of this property, and we cannot verify exactly where any of them was taken — a stock library records the photographer, not the place. We use them rather than borrow the property's own marketing images, which would imply we had stayed there. For pictures of the actual rooms, see the property's own site.