Unforgettable Experience
Living in a tent in the middle of the wildlife, withing 15 min driving seeing lots of rhino and elephants... especially the baby rhino was cute. Apes came even in our tent!
If I could I would defintely go again!
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35-50 years of age
Review about Okavango Delta by Chris Lira
Great viewing of big cats, various antelopes, baboons, giraffe, and elephants. The saddle-billed storks and lilac-breasted rollers were stunning.
Review about South Africa by gerardvanderstar
South Africa feels like the real Africa
US
35-50 years of age
Review about Botswana by Chris Lira
Botswana is clean, safe, and has a very good policy on sustainable eco-tourism. English is very widely spoken and the people are friendly. It does not have the big herds like the Serengeti, but for me, the wildlife viewing was the best of my trip.
IT
50-65 years of age
Review about Kruger National Park by giuliolib
We sighted many different kind of wildlife included: lion, rhino, hippo, hyaena, wild dog, elephant, giraffe, zebra, buffalo and several different antelope.
IT
50-65 years of age
Review about Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve by giuliolib
We met a dozen elephants very close during a sunset drive.
IT
50-65 years of age
Kgalagadi: wonderful experience
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park has become in last years a cross-border park, that includes part of the territory in Botswana and has a border station to Namibia. You can enter the park from a country and exit it to another one.
The Botswana side is very wild, there are only a few camping sites and is mandatory to drive a 4x4 vehicle. We didn’t go there.
In the South African side there are some rest camps (3 of them with bungalows, the others are smaller with only 4-6 tents), only one of them has a restaurant inside. We spent 6 days in the park, sleeping in 4 different rest camps.
The park is 4 hours drive far from Upington, the only medium-sized cities in the area; to go there you have to drive along a nearly deserted but in good condition road. This means that the park is frequented mainly by South African people or by most motivated among foreign tourist.
The special feature of the park is the natural environment, which is described as “arid savannah” and is very different from other african park’s landscape. There is an expanse of red sand dunes with a little grass and bushes, some trees and only a few waterholes, largely artificial. Wildlife in the park is astonishingly varied, we sighted springbok, hartebeest, wildebeest, jackal, giraffe, lion, oryx, meerkat, mongoose, ground squirrel and many birds, but we weren’t so lucky to sight also cheetah, leopard and eland.
One morning, at dawn, we met one lion, two lionesses and a cub walking along the road, they keep on walking among cars for half an hour. It was so exciting!
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50-65 years of age
Review about South Africa by giuliolib
Parks are very different among them and very rich in wildlife and birdes
Experience outstanding wildlife in a semi-dessert like nowhere else.
You can't compare Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park with any other park because it is special in its own way. It has its own special charm and atmosphere. The springboks Oryx and wildebeest are abundant. So is a number of predator birds. If you are lucky you will see lions cheetahs and leopards.
The camps have bird hides where you can see predators drinking water at night. Facilities at the camps are very good.
It is recommended to take the night drives. One out of three is usually very good.
It is dry and hot during the day and can get very cold at night.