Orpen Main Rest Camp is situated in the central region on the western border of the Kruger National Park. It is a small main camp and serves as an entrance gate to the central region. The scattered trees and wide-open plains covered by sweet grass attract many browsers; this in turn attracts the eye-catching Cheetah, Lion and Leopard, to Orpen’s Kruger National Park accommodation and lodging. Rabelais Dam is 7km (4.5 miles) from the rest camp.

Orpen Camp offers lodging in  15 comfortable thatched cottages with 2 beds each and two with 3 beds. This Kruger National Park accommodation includes; one communal kitchen and ablution block. In addition, there are 3 larger more luxurious guest cottages, offering accommodation to a maximum of 6 people.

These larger cottages have 2 air-conditioned bedrooms, each with 3 single beds and bathroom en-suite. It also has one bathroom with a bath, toilet and basin and the other with a shower, toilet and basin. There is also a grocery shop which stocks not only essentials but a few luxury items and a public card phone at Orpen Camp.

Just outside the fence of Orpen Camp is a small waterhole, and game can be seen here at just about any time of day from Orpen. Mostly it is Impala and Baboon that forage round the stony area, but often in the evenings Elephant will come to quench their thirst.

Orpen Camp offers game drives, game walks, and night drives. From time to time wildlife videos are also shown. Orpen Camp did not exist in the early days of Kruger National Park

Nor did Orpen gate, which today is one of the principal access points to the central par