Gate Telephone Number: +27 (0)13 735 0237/0238
Orpen is quite a complex and confusing gate system these days!
There are actually three gates, an outside picket a few km out where the tar road enters the Park. Then the "new" gate complex where one checks in, about a km before Orpen Camp:
Unless you are staying at Orpen, Tamboti or Maroela, you don't have to dismount there, I don't think, and can just show your permit and continue.
(To the left is SA Wildlife College on the Hans Hoheisen property, all part of greater Kruger.)
Nearby attractions:
Orpen Camp viewtopic.php?f=35&t=303
Tamboti Camp viewtopic.php?f=35&t=439
Maroela Camp viewtopic.php?f=35&t=304
Talamati Camp: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=359
H7 Satara Tar Road viewtopic.php?f=263&t=2456
S39 and Timbavati Picnic Spot area: viewtopic.php?f=263&t=1566
viewtopic.php?f=36&t=315
S36 and Muzandzeni Picnic Spot: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=318
viewtopic.php?f=263&t=9009
Bobbejaankrans lookout on the H7 viewtopic.php?f=36&t=6718
Orpen Gate
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Between 1st and 2nd gates: (Outside Park proper)
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1h1 hour ago
8:54 am
10 wild dog on the move
H7, 1km from the first boom
5/5
Near Orpen
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10 wild dog on the move
H7, 1km from the first boom
5/5
Near Orpen
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5:10 pm
Elephant at sunset
H7, between Orpen camp and Boom gate.
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1:42 pm
1 Common Ostrich on the move
'male'
H7, between Orpen boom gate and reception
Near Orpen
5/5
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8:15 am
1 Leopard on the move
H7, 3km W of Orpen Camp entrance
Near Orpen Gate
5/5
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One of the Ngala Leopards I watch every morning and Evening on Wild Earth safaris ..the only thing that keeps me going during Lock Down
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6:19am
Pride of Lion on the move
"including 2 white lions. Were stationary in the road, moved into long grass"
H7, 5km E of the first Orpen Gate
Near Orpen
5/5
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4:44pm
1 leopard stationary
H7, on the road between the 1st and second gate to Orpen
Near Orpen
5/5
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8:00am
Pride of lion on a kill
"Very exciting, pride with 2 white lions killed a Buffalo"
H7, just outside Orpen Gate, they walked through the petrol station. Lions have moved off towards &Beyond Ngala.
Near Orpen
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