RU
20-35 years of age
Unlike any place on Earth
We stayed at Sussi and Chuma on the Zambezi River. We didn't care about visiting the falls, but we did go boating on the river each day, late in the afternoon, early evening. We went to see animals in the reserve earlier in the day on land with a guide.
While the animals in the reserve were amazing, the scenes on the river were unimaginable. We saw massive crocodiles and hippos everywhere. We saw animals on the banks of Zimbabwe although we did not visit Zimbabwe. Only after we returned home did we realize how dangerous our adventures had been.
A hippo had been hit on the road that ran through the reserve one night. The locals used it to feed the poor. While on the river one evening, we saw the carcass lowered down to the crocs on the banks. It was something you could never imagine seeing and put life in America into sharp perspective.
RU
20-35 years of age
I remember it for life, visit only during the rainy season
wild places there are very few, Wild animals should be observed early in the morning, watched a lot of cheetahs
RU
20-35 years of age
Review about Masai Mara National Reserve by konowalownn
the best national park
RU
20-35 years of age
Review about Lake Nakuru National Park by konowalownn
too many tourists
Review about Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park by Katy Roth
Small and lovely. We took gorgeous photos of beautiful animals, lots of elephant, zebra, giraffe, water buffalo and monkeys.
50-65 years of age
Review about Botswana by Ernest
It is the most wonderful country for lovers of wildlife with the greatest variety imaginable.
IE
20-35 years of age
Review about South Africa by brianmagee47
Whales, sharks, Ostriches, Baboons, Dazzies, lions, tigers, crazy spikey trees. everthing in south Africa is just over sized (and slightly dangerous , in a good way)....
DE
35-50 years of age
Review about Kenya by Kinyanjui Hager
Kenya offers an emense high diversity of wildlife and scenic beauty. Mountains and planes, savanna and forests, the Big Five, huge herds of wildbeasts, whatever you want, you find it. Prices are reasonable, transportation is no problem.
50-65 years of age
Sleep with a lion or hyena outside your tent
We stayed in the Mabuasehube area of the park.
This is one of the few places where you can pitch your tent in the wilderness without having a fence to protect you from the wildlife. It is wild, very wild and you must be careful not to be included in the diet of the lions of which there are usually plenty.
This is typical Kalahari with very hot summers and pleasant cool to hot winters and is situated in the summer rainfall region. There are not any mountains and the scenery is grasslands with camel thorn trees which is heaven for a lover of the Kalahari.
Accommodation is camp sites, some with long drop toilets and cold showers and others with nothing, just the bush.
Mabuasehube can be reached from Nossob a rest camp in the South African part of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park via a dune route of about 170km. This road is strictly for 4x4 vehicles with high ground clearance. The other options are from Tsabong in the South which is the route we took. This route is also just for 4x4's. There are also roads from the North and East but we have never tried them. There is no fuel available at Mabuasehube and at Tsabong we had to wait a day for the petrol to be delivered. Taking extra fuel is recommended.
The following items are not available at Mabuasehube:
1. Drinking water - take your own
2. Food - take your own
3. Diesel
4. Petrol
3. Doctors
4. Pharmacies
5. Garages
You must take along whatever you will need.
Be careful to not leave any food or anything else outside at night. Our cooler bag with cold drinks and picnic bag with all our cutlery was stolen by hyenas. Luckily we picked up cutlery stolen from previous visitors otherwise we would have had to eat with our hands. We used plastic bottles cut open for plates.
The wild life is typical Kalahari which means Springbok, Oryx, Lions, leapard and a few other antelopes as well as smaller cats and jackal. You will not find elephant, buffalo or rhino.
