Travel Idea: Best Safaris and National Parks in Africa

Addo Elephant National Park

Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park in South Africa and is one of the country's 20 national parks.

[ | Tours]:
• South Africa
• Addo Elephant National Park

Amboseli National Park

Amboseli is a great national park with superb wildlife. The excellent view of Mt. Kilimanjaro from the park make it one of the best safari experiences in Africa.

[ | Tours]:
• Kenya
• Amboseli National Park

Bwindi Forest (Bwindi)

Bwindi is a large primeval forest in SW Uganda. The forest is one of the most biologically diverse areas on Earth, where half the world´s population of the highly endangered Mountain Gorillas live in its jungles.

[ | Tours]:
• Uganda
• Bwindi Forest

Chobe National Park

Chobe National Park is Botswana's first national park, and also the most biologically diverse. It has one of the greatest concentrations of game in all of Africa.

[ | Tours]:
• Botswana
• Chobe National Park

Etosha National Park

Etosha is a major national park with wild animals in Namibia. You can find the Big Five here, plus an abundance of desert live.

[ | Tours]:
• Namibia
• Etosha National Park

Kruger National Park

The Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in the world. The big five and many other animals have their home here. The location north-east of Johannesburg makes it an easy destination.

[ | Tours]:
• South Africa
• Kruger National Park

Lake Nakuru

Lake Nakuru National Park is best known for its thousands, sometimes millions of flamingos nesting along the shores. It can really color the whole lake pink. However, water level conditions have varied from almost drying up to complete floodings. Flamingos may migrate to other lakes according to this.

[ | Tours]:
• Kenya
• Lake Nakuru

Maasai Mara National Reserve

The Masai Mara National Reserve is one of the main national parks in Kenya (and Africa) with a lot of wildlife. It borders the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

[ | Tours]:
• Kenya
• Maasai Mara National Reserve

Moremi Game Reserve

Moremi Game Reserve is a protected area in Botswana. This is not a national park, so that the Bushmen that lived there were allowed to stay in the reserve. The reserve is home to a wide variety of mammals and birds.

[ | Tours]:
• Botswana
• Moremi Game Reserve

Ngorongoro Crater

The Ngorongoro Crater is one of those places in Africa where you can find all wildlife - including the Big Five - on a very small area. And they will stay there till you visit as well, because they are "trapped" in a large volcano crater with steep walls around them...

[ | Tours]:
• Tanzania
• Ngorongoro Crater

Okavango Delta

Okavango is a unique National Park with land- and water- wildlife. It is like a giant oasis in the middle of deserts. Don´t miss the crocodiles and hippopothamus from a canoe... Note that a river delta that ends in a desert and not in an ocean or sea is unique all by itself!

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• Botswana
• Okavango Delta

Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti is the largest area in the world where lions, giraffe, elephants, rhino, zebra, gnu and many other animals run around in their natural habitat. The plains are mostly wide-open and safaris are the most common activity. The Serengeti is partly in Tanzania, partly in Kenya - but animals don´t need passports to cross the border for their endless migration...

[ | Tours]:
• Tanzania
• Serengeti National Park

South Luangwa National Park (South Luangwa)

South Luangwa National Park in eastern Zambia is a world-renowned wildlife haven with an abundance of wildlife along the Luangwa River and its lagoons, including Hippo and crocodile. This park offers one of the greatest diversities of habitat and wildlife.

[ | Tours]:
• Zambia
• South Luangwa National Park

Tarangire National Park

The Tarangire National Park is a national park in Tanzania's Manyara Region and is defined by the long-distance migration of wildebeest and zebras.

[ | Tours]:
• Tanzania
• Tarangire National Park

Tsavo National Park

Tsavo National Park is the largest national park in Kenya and split up in a Western and Eastern half by highway 109. It is named for the Tsavo River, which flows west to east through the national park.

[ | Tours]:
• Kenya
• Tsavo National Park