Amboseli National Park is one of Kenya’s most recognizable wildlife destinations, famous for large elephant herds moving across open plains beneath the distant summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Located in Kajiado County near the Kenya–Tanzania border, the park protects a relatively compact core of a much larger ecosystem made up of dry lake beds, savanna, wetlands, …
Category: Africa
Jan 01 2025
Bale Mountains National Park
Bale Mountains National Park protects one of Africa’s most extraordinary mountain landscapes: a vast highland wilderness of Afro-alpine moorland, volcanic peaks, glacial lakes, grasslands, bamboo forest, cloud forest, deep river valleys, and some of the rarest animals on Earth. Located in the Oromia Region of southeastern Ethiopia, the park rises from lush Harenna Forest to …
Oct 03 2024
Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park is one of Africa’s greatest wildlife destinations and one of the most famous protected areas in the world. Stretching across northeastern South Africa along the borders with Mozambique and Zimbabwe, the park protects roughly 2 million hectares of savanna, woodland, river systems, granite hills, mopane veld, grassland, and seasonal wetlands. Kruger is …
Sep 25 2024
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park is one of the world’s great wildlife landscapes, an immense expanse of grasslands, acacia woodlands, rocky kopjes, seasonal rivers, and open horizons in northern Tanzania. It is best known as the heart of the Great Migration, when enormous herds of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles move through the wider Serengeti ecosystem in search …
