Safari: national park

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 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.

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

At Lake Nakuru, you drive around a soda lake lined with flamingos, in Kenya's first rhino sanctuary, where white rhinos graze in the open near the shore and black rhinos hide in the thickets.

At Lake Manyara, a small park squeezed between the Rift escarpment and a soda lake, you look up into the acacias, where lions sleep through the hot hours: this is one of the few...

In Kruger, you drive yourself through 360 km of bush, and elephants cross the road in front of your hood.

In Amboseli, you follow the most studied elephants in the world, 1,903 animals known one by one since 1972, as they walk each morning from the swamps toward the dusty plains with Kilimanjaro behind...