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50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve by muchas641
Wildlife - very great!
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50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Camdeboo National Park by muchas641
Desolution Valley, a wonderful landscape.
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Augrabies Falls National Park by muchas641
very wonderful landscape - really!
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Addo Elephant National Park by muchas641
It is not the real wildlife - if you have visited Kruger NP, Addo E.P. has the second place.
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
wonderful landscape
Wonderful landscape, scenic, no very dangerous animals, not to much visitors,
DE
50-65 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about South Africa by muchas641
Perfect National-Parks - and perfect Nature Reserve Parks
US
65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Unreconstructed urbanite gives the bush a chance
I travel to photograph city things: architecture, sculpture, graffitti . . . but on a cruise from Mauritius to Cape Town in January 2009 I thought that if I was ever going to see wildlife beyond the cats of Rome or the poodles of Park Avenue, now was the moment. It was beautiful and I enjoyed the 2-day, overnight experience. I have no basis, however, for comparing Phinda with other game preserves; one other guest complained loud and long that some park she had visited in Zimbabwe had a lot more critters - she seemed especially vexed by the dearth of giraffes at Phinda. I got out of it what I expected--a novice's introduction. The guides were rugged and handsome and the impromptu afternoon tea on a hilltop was a real touch of colonial nostalgia. What few photos I took are viewable at http://www.flickr.com/photos/virginiagent/sets/72157612306934389/, in the set labelled "A Beast in View," a line of verse from Dryden.
A virgin Park with fewer visitors and scenenic drives.
I first visited Meru National park in December 2007, The first thing that you notice as soon as you enter the National Park is that the landscape, vegetation and soil are very much different from all the other Parks in Kenya.
There are very few open rolling savannah plains you see in Masai Mara. The place is dotted with small hills and kopjes all over and finally you dont get any of the dreaded black cotton soil you find in other parks. The soil here is red in colour and so are the elephants who regularly spray themselves with the soil.
Meru National Park is a very virgin park, in that not many visitors visit the place for many reasons. The main reason I guess is the distance you have to travel, number of animals you get to see and the dreaded Tsetse Fly. But once you are in the Park you get to see all the Big Five of Kenya and much more.
The wildlife of Meru is very shy, in that they are not used to vehicles driving along the roads amongst them. As soon as they hear or see an approaching vehicle their basic instinct is to run into the bushed. This not only happens with the smaller animals but also the bigger Elephant's and Buffalo's. But on the other hand the little you get to see is totally different from the other wildlife watching experience in the other National Parks of Kenya.
You get to see Elephant Bull's whose tusks are so long that you dont get to see the bottom tips because the Bull himself cannot lift his head high up because of the weight. An old hunter tale comes to mind where a Hunter went hunting and tracked a certain Elephant for 7 days waiting to see the bottom tips of his Tusks before he could decide whether to go ahead or not.
Whilst out on a Game Drive you have to frive very slowly and keep looking out for wildlife as they are camouflaged very well and blend into there surroundings amazingly well. You get to see all the common Antelopes, herbivores including the Oryx and Grevy's Zebra which is listed as critically endangered by IUCN. Lion, Cheetah and Leopard are also commonly sighted in the Park.
Generally the experience is very different from any other National Park you visit in Kenya but the memories remain for a longer time.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Zulu Nyala Game Reserve by Steve Gray from York
A small fences reserve. A great first safari.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Put your camera down for a while and let your senses soak it in!
We enjoyed a very informative guide who was very accommodating of guest's preferences. The animals were awesome and provided great photo opportunities. The accommodations, food and service were fabulous. I highly recommend that you make the trip.