21 Travel Destinations to visit for the best safari in Africa continent

Africa is one of the most amazing continents worldwide bound with an incredible experience.  There is so much to see starting from the incredible landscape, ancient history, geographical wonders, wildlife, and communities. However, making a choice of where to travel in Africa might be difficult because the continent has 54 countries and over 3000 diverse tribes. Here are 21 travel destinations to visit for the best safari in the Africa continent.  

1.Serengeti National Park – Tanzania 

Serengeti National Park is the oldest national park in Tanzania and remains the flagship of the country’s tourism industry. The park is well known for its annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest. In the park you will get to see various animals such as Hippopotamus, Nile crocodile, honey badger, leopard, and more than 1 million wildebeest.

2. Masai Mara  National Reserve – Kenya 

Maasai Mara is one of the most famous and important wildlife conservation in Africa. It hosts the Great migration which is among the Seven Wonders of Africa and one of the ten World Wonders. It has an exceptional population of bush elephants, cheetah, African leopard, and lion.

3. Zambezi Valley – Zambia 

Zambezi Valley is the forth longest river in Africa and the largest flowing river into the Indian Ocean from Africa. There is a fascinating view at Zambezi valley and you will see the most noted feature of Victoria Falls.

4. Volcanoes National Park - Rwanda 

The park is best known for the Mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei). You will also get to see other mammals like golden monkeys, buffalo, and spotted hyena. There are 178 recorded bird species, with at least 13 species and 16 subspecies endemic to the Virunga and Rwenzori Mountains.

5. Kruger National Park – South Africa

The largest game reserve if South Africa and ranks the best in Africa. At Kruger National Park you will experience a unique atmosphere that will allow you to immerse yourself in the unpredictable and endless wilderness that is the true quality of Africa.

6. Hwange National Park – Zimbabwe 

One of Africa’s top national parks, Hwange National Park is found in Zimbabwe.  The unique quality of Hwange is lack of crowds. The park never gets crowded, that means you have a space to experience quietness so as you soak up the magic of the bush.

7. Chobe National Park – Botswana

Chobe National Park is a true wildlife paradise and one of the best national parks in Southern Africa. You will be mesmerized by the variety of wildlife and lush vegetation. The Chobe River that flows through the park draws many animals and birds during the dry season.

8. South Luangwa National Park – Zambia

The animals’ concentration around river Luangwa and its oxbow lagoons make South Luangwa one of the greatest wildlife sanctuaries in the world. The Park hosts a wide variety of wildlife, birds and vegetation.

9. Zanzibar Beach Holidays – Tanzania

If you’re looking for a place to chill, relax, or a romantic place Zanzibar Holiday beaches is a place to go. The beaches such as Nugwi, Kendwa and Paje are found in African Island paradise Zanzibar.  These beaches have spectacular sunset, palm trees, colorful coral reefs and turquoise waters. They provide best places to swim, snorkeling, sunbathing and seeing creatures such as gents’ tortoises and red monkeys.

10. Mount Kilimanjaro – Tanzania

 
Do you like challenging sports? Then Mount Kilimanjaro is the right place to go. Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain on the African continent and the highest free-standing mountain in the world.  The mountain has three volcanic cones, Kibo, Shira, and Mawenzi. While climbing the mountain you’ll enjoy almost every kind of ecological system that is; cultivated land, rain forest, heath, moorland, alpine desert and arctic. Approximately 25,000 people attempt to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro every year. Approximately two-thirds of them successfully reach their peak. Try this sport and see if you will be successful.

11. Etosha National Park – Namibia

The Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, is one of the most significant game reserves in Africa. In Namibia it is by far the best known and most important national park. The name Etosha is derived from the Oshiwambo and means “big, white place”.  More than 100 mammal species and 340 different species of birds are found in the park.

12. Tarangire National Park – Tanzania

 
Tarangire National Park is the largest elephant population in Tanzania. It offers fascinating wildlife viewing, as its dry landscape makes it easier to spot these large groups of animals on the move. For people who love to watch birds, Tarangire National Park is the best place to go. The park's woodlands are home to hoopoes, hornbills, brown parrots; bateleur eagles, steppe eagles, and the gigantic lappet-faced vulture.  

Tarangire is also a home of various animals; from the diminutive dik-dik to the towering African elephants and giraffes.

The park is also a home of endangered animals like black rhinoceros, the fringe-eared oryx with its graceful horns, the towering greater kudu, and the tiny Ashy Starling.

Tarangire is beautiful to visit during both the wet and dry seasons. If you want to view good wildlife conditions then between August and October is the best place to visit.

13. Kalahari Desert - Botswana & Namibia

The Kalahari Desert is a large semi – arid sandy savannah in South Africa covering much of Bostwana, parts of Namibia and South Africa. When visiting you will experience a series of diverse landscapes; that are not confined to one country but stretch across Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. What unique about Kalahari Desert is that most of the desert is not considered real desert due the amount of rainfall the desert receives.

14. Lake Eyasi - Tanzania

Lake Eyasi is a season shallow endorheic salt lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of Serengeti Plateau and just south of the Serengeti National Park and immedieltly southwest of the Ngorongoro Crater in the Crater Highlands of Tanzania. At Lake Eyasi you will get to see the Hadzabe Bushmen, the indigenous community and the last hunter and gather community in Africa.

15. Ngorongoro Nature Reserve – Tanzania

The volcanic Ngorongoro crater is a best place to see many kinds of wildlife such as Elephant, big cats and spotted hyena.  Rhino are usually hard to see in Tanzania; but can be easily seen at Ngorongoro since they have a predictable routine of spending the night in Lerai forest, and the day in open grassland.

16. Amboseli National Park – Kenya 

Amboseli is the Kenya’s second most popular national park after the Masai Mara National Reserve. Amboseli is synonymous with two particular things – majestic herds of elephant and glorious views of Mount Kilimanjaro in the neighboring country Tanzania.

During heavy rains, the basin at the centre of the park floods, attracting hordes of wildlife. The reserve is an excellent place to view the Big Five, as well as lesser known and rarer wildlife species.

17. Addo Elephant National Park – South Afrika

Now South Africa's third largest national reserve, Addo Elephant National Park lies in the malaria-free Sundays River valley in the Eastern Cape. At the park you will experience a fantastic wildlife. There various accommodation options including lodges and tents.

18. The burigi – Chato National Park – Tanzania

The National Park is situated close to the boarder of Lake Victoria, boarder of Rwanda and is surrounded by the wondrous waters of the kagera River and Lake Burigi. One of the special features about the wild life of this park is that one of the largest antelopes of the world the statuesque Cape eland is found there. The National Park has a wide collection of wildlife and some of them are elephant, buffaloes, antelopes, lions, leopards, zebras and giraffes as well as various of bird species. In the park you will enjoy the pictorial beauty of the lakes and riverside.

19.Gombe Stream National Park

Gombe is famous for chimpanzee’s population living in the park. Other primates that can be seen in the park include vervet monkeys, beachcomber olive baboons and red tailed monkeys. Bushbucks and bush pigs can also be seen from time to time. The park is home to over 200 species of birds, amongst the most commonly seen are fish eagles, palm nut vultures, tropical boubous and trumpeter hornbills. The park is a best place to relax on the sand, snorkeling and swimming. Hippos and crocodiles tend to keep their distance from Gombe which means you can enjoy clear water without having to worry about sharing the water with wild animals.

20. Victoria Falls Zambia 

The mighty Zambezi River and the majestic Victoria Falls form a natural border between the countries of Zimbabwe and Zambia.  You can choose to stay on the Zimbabwe side or the Zambia side and still enjoy many different activities at Victoria Falls. Here are some activities you can do at Victoria Falls;

Visit the Livingstone Island and explore the historical town of Livingstone in Zambia. Walk along the Zambezi River and enjoy the sunset boat cruise on the Zambezi River. Don’t forget to take lots of pictures!

21. Pyramid of Giza Egypt

Is the one of the most famous structures at Giza near Cairo and the last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.  The great pyramids of Giza are perhaps the most famous and discussed structures in history. These massive monuments were unsurpassed in height for thousands of years after their construction and continue to amaze and enthrall us with their overwhelming mass and seemingly impossible perfection.

The three primary pyramids on the Giza plateau were built over the span of three generations by the rulers Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure. Each pyramid was part of a royal mortuary complex that also included a temple at its base and a long stone causeway (some nearly 1 kilometer in length) leading east from the plateau to a valley temple on the edge of the floodplain.