Greater Addo region, on the Sundays River, near but not inside the park
Stays / Sundays River Valley, near Addo, South Africa

Hitgeheim Country Lodge

Illustrative photograph, not this property · Anouschka Cumberlege / Pexels
country lodge 16 free-standing thatched chalets

Hitgeheim is an owner-managed lodge on a working citrus-orchard farm overlooking the Sundays River valley, just outside Addo, and arranges its own guided drives into the park rather than being a park-concession property itself.

Illustrative photograph — not this property. Photo: Elize Bezuidenhout via Pexels.

What sets it apart

A working-farm setting outside the park boundary, for travellers who want Addo game drives without staying inside the park itself.

Who it suits

Travellers wanting a country-lodge base near Addo rather than an in-park stay.

The essentials

CountrySouth Africa
WhereGreater Addo region, on the Sundays River, near but not inside the park
Property typecountry lodge
Rooms16 free-standing thatched chalets (adults-only wing plus a family wing)
MalariaExplicitly stated as being in the malaria-free Eastern Cape region.
Illustrative photograph — not this property. Photo: Anouschka Cumberlege via Pexels.

What it costs

No fixed nightly rate was found on the official site or in the sources checked. Dynamic, enquiry-based pricing.

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.

What the sources describe

Taken from the property's own description and the listings cited below — not a checklist we filled in.

Two pools
Restaurant
Wine cellar
Eco-reserve walks
In-house Addo game drives