The best safari parks in Africa and around the world

The countries and their parks compared: the animals and when to see them, park fees, access and where to stay, checked guide by guide.

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Everything you need to know before you book your safari

The animals and when to see them, the best season, park fees, how to get there, the budget and where to stay. Checked and dated facts, real photos with their credits.

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A herd of elephants with several calves crosses muddy ground, with a baobab and acacias behind

TanzaniaNational park

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Four elephants walk through a green meadow dotted with white flowers in front of a line of acacias, the snowy summit of Kilimanjaro behind them

Kenya

6 parks and reserves

A female elephant crosses a paved road side-on while a young elephant behind her pulls leaves from a roadside bush, green bush all around

South Africa

6 parks and reserves

A lone umbrella acacia on a plain of golden grass, wooded hills on the horizon

Tanzania

6 parks and reserves

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A buffalo seen head-on, its helmet of horns fused across the forehead, a green stem in its mouth, surrounded by flies

African buffalo

Syncerus caffer

Found in 18 parksDangerous

Of all the Big Five, the buffalo is the one you are almost certain to see.

Leopard

Panthera pardus

Found in 18 parksCan injure

By day, the leopard sleeps on a thick branch above a river, and its hanging tail often gives it away.

Lion

Panthera leo

Found in 18 parksDangerous

At dawn, lions come back from the hunt, walk down the track or finish off a kill.

African elephant

Loxodonta africana

Found in 17 parksDangerous

From June to October, the elephants of Tarangire, in Tanzania, come down to the river by the hundreds.

Plains zebra

Equus quagga

Found in 17 parksHarmless

In the Serengeti, 250,000 plains zebras follow the wildebeest on the Great Migration, and at the Mara River crossings, from July to October, they are often the first into the water.