Linyanti

Elephants and wild dog on the Linyanti

Central Kalahari

The great empty valleys of the Kalahari

Kunene and Epupa Falls

The last wilderness of Namibia

Zambezi Region

The green finger of north-east Namibia

Kalahari

Red dunes and meerkats

Samburu National Reserve

The Samburu Special Five

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 […]

Moremi Game Reserve

Moremi Game Reserve protects the eastern side of the Okavango Delta, where dry land meets permanent water. It was established in 1963 on the initiative of the local Batawana people, and it is among the wildest and most beautiful reserves in Africa, with floodplains, lagoons, mopane woodland and acacia forest. Moremi is one of the […]

Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary

Ngamba Island is a forested island in Lake Victoria, a boat ride from Entebbe, run by the Chimpanzee Trust as a sanctuary for orphaned and rescued chimpanzees. Most arrived as victims of the bushmeat and pet trades and cannot be returned to the wild, so they live here in a large patch of forest, with […]

Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

Rhinos were wiped out in Uganda by the early 1980s. Ziwa is where they are coming back. The sanctuary covers about 70 km² of bush and swamp between Kampala and Murchison Falls, and the first southern white rhinos were brought here in 2005. The population has since grown steadily, with calves born in the sanctuary. […]

Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve

Toro-Semliki is one of Uganda’s oldest protected areas, a sweep of savannah, riverine forest and papyrus running from the Rwenzori foothills down to the southern shore of Lake Albert. It covers about 542 km² and sees few visitors, which is much of its appeal. Semliki Safari Lodge sits in the reserve and makes it easy […]

Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve

Pian Upe is a large, little-visited reserve in the south of Karamoja, in Uganda’s dry north east. It is open savannah and bushland overlooked by the volcanic hills of Kadam and Napak, and it is the only place in Uganda where you can still see roan antelope. Cheetah, ostrich and a range of dry-country species […]