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. […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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. […]

Etosha National Park

Etosha National Park is Namibia’s greatest wildlife reserve, a vast area of savannah, woodland and a huge, shimmering white salt pan that can be seen from space. The park is famous for its waterholes, where animals gather in the dry season, and it is one of the easiest places in Africa to see elephants, lions, […]

Skeleton Coast

The Skeleton Coast is one of the world’s most remote and haunting coastlines, a strip of golden dunes meeting the cold Atlantic, with fog that rolls in most mornings and ships’ bones scattered along the shore. The Bushmen called it the Land God Made in Anger, and sailors called it the Gates of Hell. The […]

Chobe National Park

Chobe National Park is home to the largest concentration of elephants in Africa, and the Chobe riverfront is the best place on the continent to watch them. In the dry season, herds of hundreds come down to the river to drink, bathe and play, and a boat trip at sunset puts you at eye level […]

Makgadikgadi Pans

The Makgadikgadi Pans are among the largest salt flats on Earth, a surreal white plain that shimmers under the sun and stretches to a flat horizon. They are the remains of a vast ancient lake, and today the landscape includes the Sua and Ntwetwe pans, baobab islands, grassland and the Boteti River. The pans change […]