Experience Addo’s most varied game drive between grassland and thicket

The Gorah Loop is one of the most varied game drives in Addo Elephant Park. Here, open grassland and dense subtropical thicket alternate, while you watch lions, elephants, common eland and an impressive variety of birds. The route takes you through a landscape that was once used for agriculture and is now gradually reverting to its original state.

The 12.7 kilometre gravel road first winds through dense thicket before opening out onto a wide grass plain. At Carol’s Rest Waterhole you can regularly see elephants, common warthogs and vervet monkeys. The surrounding dense thicket may be home to black rhinoceroses that retreat here. On the grasslands you may encounter common eland, plains zebras, kudus and red hartebeest, while secretarybirds, South African ostriches and bustards move through the open landscape.

Kalahari lions have lived here since 2003 and you can often spot them on the Gorah Loop. Spotted hyenas also roam the area. The route offers excellent long-distance views and thus good chances of wildlife sightings in a range of different landscapes.