The small village of Addo is situated at the entrance to the fertile Sundays River Valley in the Eastern Cape.

The settlement of Addo is the gateway to the famous Addo Elephant National Park, one of the greatest conservation projects on the African continent. The area surrounding Addo is well known for its lush citrus orchards and beautiful flowering roses.

The European interpretation of the African word Kradouw, meaning “river passage” became Addo. This site was a fording place across the Sundays River and it became a junction of the branch railway that lead up the Sundays River Valley from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg. With the onset of the irrigation scheme, the entrance to the Valley became an important railway centre for this area.