Nature meets adventure: Africa's iconic safari parks
What better way to holiday than with true nature? Think about it, lions, giraffes, elephants, buffalos all in one place; that’s what some of Africa’s best safari sites offer visitors all over the world.
A blend of wildlife and beautiful natural scenery await you. Determining which safari experience to go with is definitely a difficult choice for travellers but a pick from this list may ease your uncertainty.
Serengeti
Fifteen thousand square kilometres of land, serve as home to some of the world’s rarest and wildest species in Tanzania. The Serengeti National Park has been named as the Leading National Park at the World Travel Awards 5 times in a row.
Known for the annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest to the Masai Mara in Kenya, the park has served as one of the continent’s biggest travel sites for years.
You won’t miss the striking landscape and the sight of animals including the rhinos, hippos, and wild cats among others when you visit the Serengeti National Park.
Masai Mara
It shares the same ecosystem with the Serengeti National Park and it’s known for its savanna grasslands and wildlife populations. Located in the southwest of Kenya, the Masai Mara Game Reserve occupies about a thousand five hundred kilometres square area. It is known for the ‘Big 5’, a term used to refer to the big 5 animals hunted in the past but considered dangerous to hunt on foot in Africa - the African elephant, lion, leopard, Cape buffalo and rhinoceros. The park is also known for its wildebeest migration.
Kruger National Park
The Kruger National Park is a popular safari destination in Africa known especially for its Leopard population. The park, over nineteen thousand kilometres square is home to diverse wildlife and located northeast of South Africa, in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
The Kruger National Park is regarded as a heritage site by UNESCO. Aside from the beautiful wild touch to the park, you would find game-like antelopes and other animals at Kruger Park.
Chobe National Park
The Chobe National Park in Botswana covers about twelve thousand kilometres square of land and has a beautiful landscape with large populations of diverse game animals. The park is divided into four areas: The Serondela, Savuti March, Linyanti March and the Hinterland.
You will easily spot animals like zebras, giraffes, antelopes, and wildebeest when you visit this park.
Hwange National Park
Hwange is Zimbabwe’s biggest national park with a huge diversity of mammals. The park can boast of the greatest concentration of big game animals. The park is about fourteen thousand, six hundred and fifty-one-kilometer square and was named after a local Nhanzwa chief. Impalas, African buffaloes, different bird species and other wildlife species can be found here.
Okavango Delta
This park is located in Northern Botswana and has exceptional wildlife viewing. The Okavango Delta is home to wild dogs, buffalos, hippos and other game. It’s also a beautiful birding destination and an amazing place for some good adventure.
Kalahari Desert
The fifty-two thousand, eight hundred square kilometres long Central Kalahari Game Reserve is located in Botswana, the eastern third of Namibia, and the northernmost part of Northern Cape province in South Africa. The plains of sand are not the only breathtaking sight here, herds of gemsbok and the roar of lion pride near Tau Pan give you a great experience.
