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 […]

Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe side is the classic view of the greatest waterfall on the Zambezi. The river drops more than 100 metres into the Batoka Gorge along a front of about 1.7 kilometres, and the paths at Victoria Falls National Park run directly opposite the curtain of water, with viewpoints such as Devil’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Cape Town

Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, a place where a flat-topped mountain, two oceans and a long coastline meet in a single view. Table Mountain rises straight from the city centre, the Atlantic shore has white beaches and cliff-top drives, and the False Bay side has penguins, fishing villages […]

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. […]

Sossusvlei and the Namib

The Namib is the oldest desert on Earth, and Sossusvlei is its greatest spectacle: a white clay pan surrounded by the tallest dunes in the world, glowing orange and red in the first and last light of day. The dunes rise more than 300 metres, with names like Dune 45 and Big Daddy, and climbing […]