Great Fish River Lodge
The Great Fish River Lodge is stylishly furnished in Frontier Settler style, integrating local African culture with colonial settler history. feature Guest areas have a large fireplace with massive stone chimney, and a soaring thatched roof with imposing chandeliers.
Accommodation is in nine air-conditioned elegant thatched stone and glass suites each with enSuite bathrooms, indoor and outdoor showers, private plunge pools and expansive game viewing decks.Floor-to-ceiling doors which fold back to reveal uninterrupted wilderness vistas.
Delicious Pan-African cuisine is served on the private decks, in the candlelit dining room, or enjoyed in the boma (outdoor dining area). Kwandwe is renowned for its spectacular bush banqueting in surprise settings.
Experienced rangers and Xhosa trackers will lead you on interpretive, twice-daily game-drives in open 4x4 safari vehicles, bringing you close to Africa’s Big Five. Fascinating nocturnal animals such as aardvark, aardwolf, porcupine, Cape fox, bat-eared fox and springhare are regularly encountered on exciting night drives.
Other activities include guided bush walks in Kwandwe's pristine wilderness bringing you face-to-face with the Eastern Cape at its best.
Fishing is also available for enthusiasts the lodge supports a catch and release policy.