Madagascar
Madagascar is not like anywhere else on earth. Separated from Africa for about 90 million years, it evolved its own world: more than 100 species of lemur, chameleons the size of a thumbnail, baobabs that look like they were planted upside down, and a forest of limestone blades called the tsingy. It is a country […]
Andasibe-Mantadia National Park
Andasibe-Mantadia is the most visited rainforest in Madagascar, about four hours’ drive east of the capital, and the easiest place to meet the indri, the largest living lemur. Their haunting, whale-like calls carry for kilometres through the misty forest at dawn, and with a guide you can often get close to a family group in […]
Ranomafana National Park
Ranomafana National Park, in the south-eastern highlands, is a UNESCO-listed rainforest of steep hills, rivers and hot springs. It was created in 1991, soon after the discovery of the golden bamboo lemur, and is one of the best places in Madagascar for lemurs and birds. The name means hot water in Malagasy. Walks lead through […]
Isalo National Park
Isalo National Park in the south is a landscape of huge sandstone massifs, canyons and canyon pools, rising above golden grassland. It looks more like the American West than the Madagascar of rainforests, and it is one of the most spectacular places in the country. Walks lead to natural swimming pools, such as the Piscine […]
Tsingy de Bemaraha
Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park, in the west, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the strangest landscapes on earth. Tsingy means walking on tiptoe in Malagasy, and the park is a forest of razor-sharp limestone pinnacles, up to 100 metres high, split by deep canyons and gorges. Walkways, ladders and suspension bridges […]
Kahuzi-Biega National Park
We are not currently offering travel to this area. Government travel advice is against all travel to North and South Kivu, and the parks and airports here are closed or not operating. This page stays here for reference, and we will review it when the advice changes. Our Uganda and Rwanda gorilla safaris are open. […]
Virunga National Park
We are not currently offering travel to this area. Government travel advice is against all travel to North and South Kivu, and the parks and airports here are closed or not operating. This page stays here for reference, and we will review it when the advice changes. Our Uganda and Rwanda gorilla safaris are open. […]
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, […]
DR Congo
We are not currently offering travel to eastern DR Congo. At the time of writing, Goma and Bukavu are under the control of armed groups, their airports are not operating commercial flights, Virunga National Park has closed its gorilla and Nyiragongo treks, and government travel advice, including the UK Foreign Office, is against all travel […]
Livingstone and Victoria Falls
Livingstone is the Zambian gateway to Victoria Falls, the largest sheet of falling water in the world, which David Livingstone named after Queen Victoria. The Zambezi spreads out across a wide basalt plateau and plunges more than 100 metres into a narrow gorge, sending spray hundreds of metres into the air. The local name, Mosi-oa-Tunya, […]