Okavango Delta (Botswana) has the Okavango River. This cuts through the centre of Botswana’s Kalahari Desert, creating a glorious inland water system that gives life to a huge variety of birds and mammals. This can be a truly unique experience as you can see most of the wildlife from a traditional canoe, a mokoro. The delta floods every year covering over 16,000 km’s. The best time to view wildlife is during the peak of the flood, as the flooding recedes, new grass springs up and the wildlife tends to scatter.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Tanzania) includes the world’s largest crater. This acts as a natural enclosure for most species of wildlife found in East Africa. The Maasai still live within the conservation area, and it’s also home to Olduvai where some of man’s earliest remains have been found.

Hwange National Park (Zimbabwe) has an abundance of animals with over 105 mammal species. Hwange also has one of the largest populations of wild dogs left in Africa.