Parks

In Tsavo East, Kenya's largest park with 13,747 km² of dry bush, you look for red elephants, coated in the laterite they throw over their backs.

In Tarangire, you drive among hundreds of baobabs and the densest elephant herds in Tanzania, which come down to the Tarangire River from June to October.

In the Serengeti, you follow the largest animal migration on Earth: more than 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebras circling between Tanzania and Kenya.

In Samburu, you drive along the Ewaso Ng'iro, the only river in this dry north, where elephants come to drink and leopards sleep in the acacias on the bank.

In Sabi Sand, you follow a leopard a few meters from the vehicle, off-road, by day and by night.

In Ruaha, you spend hours on the tracks without meeting another 4x4, in a 20,226 km² park that is home to 10% of Africa's lions.

In Pilanesberg, you go on a Big Five safari inside the crater of a 1.25-billion-year-old volcano, three hours' drive from Johannesburg.

At Ol Pejeta, you get close to the last two northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu, guarded day and night in their enclosure, while more than 165 black rhinos, the largest group in East...

In Nyerere, you follow the Rufiji, Tanzania's largest river, by boat among hippos and crocodiles, then on foot with an armed ranger.

In Ngorongoro, you drive down into a 260 km² caldera where about 25,000 large animals live year-round: lions, buffalo, wildebeest and some fifty black rhinos.