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Where We Go
15 Countries.
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No two of these countries give you the same safari. East Africa is the open-savannah picture most people arrive with: the migration crossing the Mara, elephants under Kilimanjaro, and, in the forests along the western rift, the last mountain gorillas. Southern Africa trades that for space and variety, from the Okavango in flood to the dunes at Sossusvlei and the Indian Ocean coast.
Some of the best routes cross a border, because the pairings rarely sit inside one country. Kenya and Tanzania share the same migration from opposite banks. Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana meet within reach of Victoria Falls. Uganda and Rwanda both hold gorillas, on either side of the Virungas.
East Africa
- Uganda
Mountain gorillas in Bwindi, chimpanzees in Kibale, and the Nile forcing itself through a seven-metre gap at Murchison Falls.
- Kenya
The Mara crossing from the Kenyan bank, elephants beneath Kilimanjaro at Amboseli, and the northern species around Samburu.
- Rwanda
Gorilla trekking in the Virungas, Lake Kivu, and a capital that confronts its own history rather than tidying it away.
- Tanzania
The Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater, Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru, and Zanzibar at the end of it.
Southern Africa
- Botswana
The Okavango Delta in flood, Chobe elephant herds, and the emptiness of the Makgadikgadi salt pans.
- Namibia
Sossusvlei and Deadvlei, waterholes at Etosha, the Skeleton Coast, and Fish River Canyon.
- Zambia
South Luangwa and the Lower Zambezi, two of the quieter parks on the continent, plus Lake Kariba.
- Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls, Hwange, Mana Pools on foot, and the stone city at Great Zimbabwe.
- Malawi
Liwonde, the granite bulk of Mount Mulanje, and the freshwater coast of Lake Malawi.
- Mozambique
Indian Ocean beaches at Tofo and Barra, the Inhambane Peninsula, and Maputo.
- South Africa
Kruger, Cape Town and Table Mountain, the Garden Route, and the Drakensberg.
- Eswatini
Mkhaya and Hlane, the highlands at Malolotja, and the royal ceremonies at Lobamba.