Luxurious camp in Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape

Gorah Elephant Camp offers high standards of accommodation and service. Due to its location directly at a waterhole, even Gorah’s veranda is excellent for watching herds of elephants, which pass by or come for a drink.

Even to a casual visitor, Gorah is clearly a good lodge run to high standards. At its heart, its central manor house is very historic, like a small stately home in the middle of the national park. Some will find this history intimidating; others will love it! Gorah’s tents are large, luxurious and about as formal as you can make a tent feel – but somehow they still feel incongruous next to the manor. If you can get over that, then it’s a lovely place to stay.

Gorah Elephant Camp consists of 11 tented suites beneath thatched canopies, all spacious and highly comfortable – and in many ways very different in character to the manor house. Each of the palatial tents has got a double bed or two singles, ceiling fans, a sitting area, an en-suite bathroom, which comes with a hairdryer, bathrobes, slippers and Charlotte Rhys body products, and a private deck. All rooms offer complimentary sherry and the possibility of in-house communication.

The communal areas of Gorah Elephant Camp center around the historic manor house and contain a library of books donated by guests, a small curio shop, a lounge, dining areas, a veranda overlooking the waterhole and the plains and a swimming pool.

Relax with a book from Gorah Elephant Camp’s library by the large lounge’s fireplace or enjoy a tea on the veranda while watching elephants gather at the waterhole in front of the main house.

You can dine in the candle-lit dining room, which offers panoramic views over the Addo plains, or by the crackling log fire in the al-fresco dining area.