The Experience · Chapter one
What the wild gives you
Africa does wildlife better than anywhere on earth. These are the encounters we build our journeys around — the golf arranges itself in the spaces between.
The Big Five
Lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo — the names the old hunters gave the five hardest animals to track on foot, today shot only with cameras. Southern Africa's private reserves beside the Kruger deliver the most reliable sightings on the continent; Kenya's Mara and Tanzania's Ngorongoro run them close.
The Great Migration
Close to two million wildebeest and zebra following the rains on a 3,000-kilometre circuit across the Serengeti and Mara. The river crossings of July to October are pure drama; the February calving in the south is gentler and just as moving. The single greatest wildlife show on earth.
The mountain gorillas
Around a thousand remain on earth, and the only way to meet them is to trek into the forests of Rwanda and Uganda. Locking eyes with a silverback at arm's length is the kind of moment travellers struggle to describe afterwards. We simply call it the most humbling hour in travel.
Beyond the headliners
Walking safaris in Zambia, the desert-adapted elephant of Damaraland, the chimps of Nyungwe and Kibale, a million flamingo on a Rift Valley lake — and the simple, addictive pleasure of a day with no decisions to make.
Don't chase a checklist. The travellers who relax into the rhythm — and let the leopard find them — always see more than the ones counting.
The gorillas
Volcanoes and Bwindi — with the only Gary Player course in East Africa nearby.
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