Places You Can Go for an African Safari Adventure
August 25, 2009 by Lee Reid
Filed under Destinations
Seeing wildlife up close and personal and in their own habitat is hard to beat. Add wonderful scenery and it’s a memorable experience.
African safari vacations are extremely popular today that travel agencies and companies have packages designed to give tourists an African safari adventure. These tours have experts on board, of course.
Accommodation is usually in lodges and camps, equipped with hot showers. Meals and barbecues are prepared by the company cook.
Kenya is a popular destination for African safari vacations. There are packages that include a beach holiday. With 40 national parks and game reserves, you’ll have plenty of things to see in Kenya. For instance, you may travel to the Kimana Game Sanctuary that’s located at the foot of the famous Mount Kilimanjaro.
Mount Kenya National Parks and Masai Mara are two other popular Kenyan national parks. The former boasts of a rich rain forest while the latter has plains that stretch for hundreds of miles. If you’re headed to Kenya, you’ll be accompanied by a guide who will drive you and the others either in open back trucks, 4×4 vehicles or mini buses.
For an aerial view of the landscape, there are fly/drive packages, using small, light aircraft. Kenya brings opportunities to see leopards, gazelle, crocodiles, giraffes, zebra, lions and hippos.
If you want to see a variety of landscapes — wetlands, open grassland, semi-dessert, old forest — then an African safari vacation in South Africa is the perfect vacation package for you. If you want to explore on foot, car or light aircraft, go on an African safari vacation in South Africa’s Phinda region.
Some parties are taken by boat on the waterways. Wildlife sighted here is likely to be lions, rhinos, elephants, buffalo and leopard. The Madikwe Game Reserve contains leopards, elephants and packs of hyenas and wild dogs.
There are also African safari packages to Uganda and Rwanda. If it’s chimpanzees and lowland gorillas you want to see, you’ll see plenty of them in Uganda. You’ll see gorillas at the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
To see a variety of bird species, pick an African safari vacation that includes a tour to Uganda’s Mgahinga Volcanoes in its itinerary. You’ll see elephants, giraffes, antelopes and birds when you tour the savanna in the Queen Elizabeth National Park. Another popular destination in Uganda is the Murchisson Falls National Park. The waterfall is a wonderful sight and the wildlife include baboons, warthogs and zebras.
Rwanda is a haven for mountain gorillas. The slopes of the Parc National des Volcans is where you can see about 300 mountain gorillas. If you want to see lakes, forests, volcanoes and waterfalls, and mountain and lowland gorillas in their natural surroundings, go on an African safari vacation to Uganda and Rwanda.