The enormous Kruger National Park (about the same size as Israel or Wales) offers a safari experience that ranks among the best in Africa. The park is malaria free in the dry season, accessible for regular cars, and the rest camps provide a range of accommodation as well as restaurants, viewing decks, shops and petrol stations. At the same time Etosha National Park is one of the most accessible game reserves in Africa. Lion, elephant, leopard, giraffe, cheetah, hyena, springbok, two kinds of zebra, eland and many more species of wildlife are found here. Yet there is abundant wildlife that congregates around the waterholes, giving travelers almost guaranteed game sightings. ![]() The park’s main characteristic is a salt pan so large it can be seen from space. Recommended lodge: &Beyond Bateleur CampĮtosha National Park is unique in Africa.The reserve is especially famous for the high amount of predators, such as lions and cheetah, and the 1.5 million wildebeest which migrate through the Mara and cross the crocodile infested Mara river (from July to October). Together with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania (cf below) it forms Africa’s most diverse, incredible and most spectacular eco-systems, hosting over 95 species of mammals and over 570 recorded species of birds. It’s not a National Park, but rather a National Reserve belonging to the Maasai people and administered by the local county councils. Situated in south-west Kenya, Maasai Mara (Masai Mara) is possibly the continent’s most popular safari destination. The voracious Kidepo lions prey on roving herds of more than 4,000 buffalo (the total population in the park is said to be about 13,000) and you will often see herds of elephants moving majestically along the valleys. From Apoka, in the heart of the park, a savannah landscape extends far beyond the gazetted area, towards horizons outlined by distant mountain ranges. It’s Uganda’s most isolated national park, but the few who make the long journey to Kedipo would agree that it is also the most magnificent, ranking among Africa’s finest wildernesses. Launched as a national park in 1962, Kidepo lies in the rugged, semi-arid valleys between Uganda’s borders with Sudan and Kenya. Recommended lodge: Linkwasha by Wilderness Safaris.The highest numbers of animals are spotted in the dry season (August to October) when the wildlife congregates around the shrunken water holes. This game park is very accessible and all the safari camps here offer day and night game drives and most also offer walking safaris. The national park is home to over 100 mammal species, including lion, leopard and rhino, and is known for its large population of elephant. The magnificent park hosts abundant, varied wildlife, including large mammalian predators such as cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, and huge black-mane lions.īordering Botswana, Hwange National Park is Zimbabwe’s largest game park with a hugely varying scenery, ranging from the semi desert scrub on the edge of the Kalahari in the south, to forests, granite hills and valleys of mopane woodlands in the north. Kgalagadi – which translates as “the place of thirst – is located largely within the southern Kalahari Desert and its terrain consists of red sand dunes, sparse vegetation, occasional trees, and dry riverbeds. The little visited park straddles the border between South Africa and Botswana and comprises two adjoining national parks: Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa and Gemsbok National Park in Botswana. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is a large wildlife preserve and conservation area in southern Africa. KGALAGADI TRANSFRONTIER PARK, SOUTH AFRICA & BOTSWANA ![]() *** Follow me on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or Facebook for a daily moment of travel inspiration ***ġ0.
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