Hwange National Park
Hwange National Park is Zimbabwe’s largest park, covering around 14,600 square kilometres of dry woodland, grassland and Kalahari sand on the edge of the Kalahari. It is famed for its elephants, which gather in large herds at the waterholes in the dry season, and which have given the park a reputation as one of the […]
Mana Pools National Park
Mana Pools National Park lies on the south bank of the middle Zambezi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the wildest places in Africa. The name means four pools in the local Shona language, and the park takes its character from the river’s floodplain, with sandbars, islands, oxbow pools and groves of albida, […]
Lake Kariba and Matusadona
Lake Kariba is one of the largest man-made lakes in the world, formed in 1959 when the Zambezi was dammed at the Kariba Gorge. It stretches for about 220 kilometres along the border with Zambia, with water the colour of steel and drowned trees along the shore. Matusadona National Park lies on the southern shore, […]
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a country of big water, big herds and big stone. Victoria Falls drops over a wall more than a mile wide, Hwange holds some of the largest elephant herds in Africa, and Mana Pools lets you walk among wildlife with only a guide for company. Further south, the granite hills of Matobo and […]
Kafue National Park
Kafue National Park is Zambia’s oldest and largest park, and one of the biggest in Africa, covering more than 22,000 square kilometres of woodland, floodplain and rivers. It is wild, uncrowded and varied, with a mix of habitats that few other parks can match. The park is split into north, south and central areas. The […]
Zambia
Zambia is the home of the walking safari, and it is still one of the best places in Africa to leave the vehicle behind. Its parks are big, wild and quiet, its camps are small and its guides are among the best on the continent, so you can spend a morning with a leopard and […]
South Luangwa National Park
South Luangwa is the birthplace of the walking safari, and one of the finest wildlife parks in Africa. The Luangwa River winds through the valley in great loops, leaving oxbow lagoons that fill with hippos and crocodiles, and the dry-season bush is packed with animals that depend on the river. The park has one of […]
Lower Zambezi National Park
Lower Zambezi National Park lies on the north bank of the Zambezi River, opposite Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools, in a wild, beautiful corner of southern Zambia. The river is broad and slow, lined with sandbanks and floodplain, and the escarpment rises behind it. Elephants swim between islands, hippos wallow in the channels, and lions and leopards […]
Madikwe Game Reserve
Madikwe Game Reserve is a malaria-free Big Five reserve in the North West Province, about four hours from Johannesburg, on the border with Botswana. It was created in the 1990s through an ambitious restocking programme called Operation Phoenix, which turned farmland into a wildlife sanctuary. The reserve covers about 750 square kilometres of savannah, hills […]
South Africa
South Africa packs more variety into one country than almost anywhere in Africa. In a single journey you can track leopards in a private Big Five reserve, walk past penguins on a Cape beach, taste wine in a valley of old Dutch estates, watch whales from a cliff path and climb a flat-topped mountain above […]
Sabi Sand Game Reserve
The Sabi Sand Game Reserve is one of the finest places in Africa for watching leopards. The reserve lies on the western edge of Kruger National Park with no fences between them, and its private lodges allow off-road driving, night drives and close encounters that are not possible in the national park. Leopards here are […]
Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park is South Africa’s flagship park and one of the largest and oldest in Africa, covering almost 20,000 square kilometres of bushveld, from the Limpopo River in the north to the Crocodile River in the south. It was founded in 1898 and holds more species of large mammals than any other African park. […]