Kudu Ridge Game Ranch
Games in Addo

Addo Game Lodge perfect for the ultimate safari bush weddings and conferences. Addo Accommodation on a Game Lodge close to the Addo Elephant National Park.

Leave the bright lights of city life behind and escape to the tranquillity of a Private Addo Game Lodge found in the heart of the Sundays River Valley, on the doorstep of the Addo Elephant National Park. Kudu Ridge Game Lodge is a family-owned and operated private Addo game reserve nestled in the picturesque Addo hills, and the ideal base from which to explore the Addo Elephant Park and nearby Addo Attractions. Kudu Ridge Guests can relax beneath the night sky in the boma: exchanging stories, listen to a symphony of African bush sounds and savour sumptuous meals and good company warmed by the crackling fire. To take some of the heat off your pocket we have introduced an EARLY BIRD Addo Special. Kudu Ridge is located in the Addo region, which offers a wide variety of activities for visitors. The Greater Addo region, which includes areas from the Sundays River month to Kirkwood, offers a wide variety of activities. Treated me as one of the family and showed me the beauty of the Eastern Cape and Addo. The Kudu Ridge Game Lodge conference facility is perfect for corporate meetings, conferences, team building and private functions with a difference. The Addo Elephant Park Tour allows guests to enjoy the whole of the Addo Elephant National Park at a leisurely pace, ideal for finding the perfect photo opportunity. Addo lies in the beautiful Sundays River Valley which stretches from the Indian Ocean to the Zuurberg Mountains and is home to the legendary Addo elephants, as well as the famous Addo Citrus. By the 1900s hunters had exterminated most of the remaining elephants and other game in the area. The last black rhino in the Eastern Cape was shot at Graaff-Reinet in Legend says that he was challenged to chalk a cross on the back leg of a sleeping elephant to win the heart of a lady. In 1900, Mr. Attrill (who was married to the widow of the farm Gorah, now part of the Addo Elephant National Park) and his foster son, Sidney, went hunting elephants. Attrill was killed by an Addo elephant and in 1902, Sidney disappeared into the thick Addo bush, his body was later found. He also caught two elephant calves and sold them to Mr. Boswell for his circus. Elephants were killed as a result of conflicts with farmers and collisions with trains. Since elephants visited the feeding site at certain times, the practice of inviting visitors began. The elephants would remain within easy reach of the feeding area which had a negative effect on the natural vegetation within that area and elephants were often injured during the insuing feeding frenzies created by the regular food delivery. The feeding of citrus, lucerne and the like, continued after the fence was erected in order to increase the chance of visitors seeing the Addo elephants from outside the fence. For want of a better system, a truck would enter the game area and dump the oranges. They would be scared away from the entrance gate (when the truck departed) by whips, throwing bricks and shouts. Hapoor was the only elephant to ever break out of the Addo Park, in 1968 after being deposed from his dominant status by Lanky and was driven from the heard and became a loner. The plans to expand the park received a significant boost when academics from the Terrestrial Ecology Research Unit (TERU) at the University of Port Elizabeth drafted a proposal outlining the opportunities that could possibly be created through an expansion initiative.