CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Okavango Delta by Georg Treptow
Wow, just wow, no lions or leopards for us but plenty of hippos, frogs, antilopes, etc
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Moremi Game Reserve by Georg Treptow
Hippos and baboons, honey badgers and elephants...also amazing.
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Chobe National Park by Georg Treptow
This is an amazing spot; crocs, hippos, eagles, zebras, lions, water buffalo, elephants, antilopes and much more ....they are all here.
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Central Kalahari Game Reserve by Georg Treptow
Saw lions and leopards and some big birds.
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Completely alone
The Nxai Pan National Park was definitely one of the highlights on our three week trip through Botswana.
We stayed at Baines camp site 2, which gave us some much needed shade against the hot afternoon sun. There were some campers at site 3 at night but the distance between the sites is so great that you could only make out thier campfire in the pitch black dark.
Complete silence. I have never felt so far away from Civilization in my life as I did n this National Park. We did not see a single human soul or human presence (other than the mentioned fire) the entire time in the park.
When the sun goes down you really feel like part of the milky way as there is a billion stars all around.
I can strongly recommend this place. Book your campsites early as there are only three of them.
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Addo Elephant National Park by M_Fdez
Addo National Park is close to the idea than European are looking for in an African National Park: vast, diverse, beautiful. Enjoying with a semi-wild group of elephants in front of you is a great experience
ES
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Nice, but not superb, experience for an European
As a biologist, I enjoyed African Nature in many diverse places in South Africa; also in Mountain Zebra National Park, of course. Landscapes are beautiful, not very different to African savanna, I think. There were very few tourists when I visited the Park, so it was a good moment to relax and enjoying driving through it.
Apart from this, I have to say that mammals diversity was not too high, so we had to drive a long way to see "big" animals (gazelles and zebras, most of them). I can imagine that the most of urban citizens, unused to Nature, prefer to find wilder animals like rhinos, lions, cheetahs,... and that could be the reason why we saw so few tourists there.
My final impression was that Mountain Zebra is a good park, sure, but it shouldn'be a priority for visitors
FR
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about South Africa by ntny1955
South Africa has some of the most spectacular scenery on the planet. The people were incredibly warm and welcoming.
CH
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Review about Botswana by Georg Treptow
Drive slowly or you might hit an elephant turning around a corner, careful when getting out of the car as lions and leopards are many in numbers inside all the parks.
The only thing we did not see were rhinos and cheetas, everything else was present.