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A safari, KiSwahili word for a journey, is one of Africa’s thrilling scenery that allows you to see more wild animals in their natural habitat. An African safari is an ideal holiday destination for someone who enjoys adventure. It enables you to immerse yourself in lands you’ve never seen and witness the majesty of the Great Migration, as millions of animals migrate across the plains every year.
Each destination is as diverse as the community and people who inhabit it, providing visitors with a plethora of adventure choices. The focus is on savannah and bush ecosystems, which are home to savannah elephants, lions, buffalos, and other well-known wild animals.
Some visitors come for the breathtaking scenery, while others come for outdoor activities such as hiking and hot air balloon rides. As a result, knowing which locations deliver the experiences you search for is advantageous. However, if seeing magnificent animals in their natural habitat is the highlight of your safari, consider visiting one of the continent’s top eight wildlife safari parks:
8. Luangwa National Park
The South Luangwa National Park was establishedas the Luangwa Game Park in 1904 and converted to one of three game reserves in 1938 and is simply known as ‘the South Park’ by locals. The magnificent park spans approximately 9050 square kilometers of the Luangwa Valley floor and is situated between 500 and 800 meters above sea level.
There’s no lack of dramatic and interesting topography in this beautiful game-rich park, which is bordered on the west and north by the Muchinga Escarpment and on the south by the meandering Luangwa River.
The Park is home to a diverse range of mammals, birds, and plants. This Park gave birth to the now-famous “walking safari,” which is still one of the best ways to see Africa’s untouched wilderness up close and personal. The Park’s diversity is enhanced by the changing seasons, which range from a dry, bare bushveld in the winter to a lush, green wonderland in the summer.
South Luangwa National Park is home to 60 different animal species and over 400 different bird species. The rhino is the only significant exception, which has been poached to extinction.
7. Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park is the only one of its kind in Africa. The park’s main feature is a massive salt pan that can be seen from space. Since so much wildlife congregates around the waterholes, game sightings are almost assured. At the same time, Etosha National Park is one of Namibia’s and Southern Africa’s most open game reserves.
Etosha refers to the vast salt pan and means “great white field.” This is an amazing sight because it is undoubtedly one of Africa’s largest salt pan. When it rains, the water in the pan pools, attracting hundreds of thousands of flamingos! You can see the white salt etched against the desert backdrop. Animals can get a lot of nutrients from the earth here because of the salt.
To summarize, Etosha is a one-of-a-kind landscape, and visitors will tell you that it is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
6. Kibale National Forest Park
Kibale Forest National Park has the largest number and diversity of primates in East Africa, making it one of the best safari destinations in Africa for chimpanzee trekking safaris. Within its 795km2 land cover, which includes the most beautiful and diverse tracts of tropical forest in Uganda, there are 13 species of primates, including chimpanzees.
On the elevated Fort Portal plateau, the forest covers the majority of the park’s central and northern areas. Kibale, located at the park’s northernmost point, is the highest point at 1590 meters above sea level.
5. Chobe National Park
Chobe National Park, in the north of beautiful Botswana, is home to Africa’s largest elephant population and is affectionately known as “The Land of the Giants.”
Chobe is without a doubt the best place in Africa to see elephants, particularly those on the move. Individual herds can number in the hundreds, and the park is estimated to have 120,000 elephants in total. There are huge herds of buffalo to be found as well. In reality, both are frequently seen roaming around the outskirts of Kasane, unaffected by traffic or people, beyond the park’s boundaries.
The park also has excellent lion and leopard sightings, and the river has an almost incomprehensible variety of hippos and crocodiles, as well as an almost incomprehensible variety of birdlife, including some especially uncommon species that are highly sought after by top wildlife photographers.
The Serondela region, the Savuti March, the Linyanti March, and Hinterland are the four areas that make up the park.
4. Masai Mara National Reserve
The Masai Mara National Reserve, in south-west Kenya, is a vast expanse of African savannah plains that stretches for 1510 square kilometers and borders Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park to the south. Masai Mara is a rare wildlife conservation haven known for its impressive natural variety of wildlife.
It is also a top Kenya Safari destination in East Africa, with many reasons for tourists to visit this animal paradise. Lions, Cheetahs, Elephants, Rhinos, African Buffaloes, Wildebeest, Giraffes, Zebras, and other species can be found in the park in their natural habitat, free to explore the vast wilderness extending for miles.
3. Hwange National Park
Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe’s northwest is one of Africa’s best national parks and should be on every safari enthusiast’s bucket list. The Big Five and more than 100 other mammal species roam Hwange’s savanna grasslands and woodlands, making it the world’s most diverse national park in terms of mammal diversity.
The park, which is around the size of Belgium, also has 50 000 elephants and is noted for frequent sightings of cheetah, leopard, and lion, as well as one of Africa’s largest populations of the endangered wild dog and rare species like roan and sable. The 500 species of birds reported here will impress birdwatchers.
2. Kruger National park
Kruger National Park, South Africa’s largest game reserve, is essentially a synonym for “safari.” It is located in the north-eastern corner of South Africa and encompasses the provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo.
Kruger is the country’s flagship national park, home to over 500 bird species, 100 reptiles, nearly 150 mammals, numerous archaeological sites, and a breathtaking diversity of trees and flowers. Adventurers can go for a bush stroll, or take a hot-air balloon ride above it all.
1. Serengeti National Park
Voted the best national park in the world by Trip Advisor, the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is the safari destination of most people’s dreams. This vast wilderness area, which covers 14750 square kilometers, provides some of the best wildlife viewing opportunities in Africa, as well as classic East African scenery of vast savanna (Serengeti means “endless plains” in Maasai), and the dramatic spectacle of the world’s most spectacular animal migration – the Great Migration.
The Serengeti is famous for its predators, which include leopards, cheetahs, lions, and hyenas, all of which can be seen on a daily basis. The Serengeti is also home to the incredible Great Migration, which sees millions of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle traverse the park’s open plains in search of fresh grass after seasonal rains, then migrate north into Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve, and then return south to the Serengeti.