Safari & Wildlife

The flood arrives in winter. That single inversion tells you everything different about the Okavango Delta. While the rest of Botswana bakes through its dry season, between June and August, …

Most travellers who decide to see Africa’s game reserves book the Kruger National Park. It is a fine park – 19,485 square kilometres, more than 500 bird species, and infrastructure …

No national park on the African continent concentrates elephants quite like Chobe National Park, Botswana. An estimated 120,000 to 130,000 African bush elephants roam this 11,700-square-kilometre park in northern Botswana, …

Pick up a standard African travel brochure, and you will find the same names rotating: Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Morocco. Cameroon rarely appears. That is not because it lacks something …

The question comes up every time someone starts planning a Southern Africa safari: Should you book a game lodge or a safari camp? Both put you in the wild. Both …

Kenya’s safari sector generated KSh 460 billion, approximately $3.5 billion, in tourism revenue in 2024, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service. Of that total, 75% came from wildlife-based tourism. The …

In 1981, there were 254 mountain gorillas left alive. The species was in terminal decline. Poaching, habitat encroachment, civil conflict, and disease had reduced a population that once ranged freely …

The most common problem with African safari pricing guides is that they give figures without context. A number like $500 per person per day sounds expensive without knowing what it …

A Maasai landowner in the Mara does not receive his lease payment from a hunting operator. He receives it from a safari camp. The same land his grandfather once leased …

Few tourist sites or attractions on the African continent generate the level of reverence that Singita Game Reserves does. Rates at Singita start at approximately $1,800 per person per night …