The Okavango Delta’s wildest corner, where lions, wild dogs and leopards hunt between floodplains and mopane forest.
Restored park with elephants and lions.
Hidden desert waterhole in the Ennedi where camel caravans meet Nile crocodiles.
Visit the world's only bonobo sanctuary.
Restored park of returning wildlife.
The best place on Earth to see a leopard, with elephants, sloth bears and a coastline of dunes and lagoons.
Nigeria’s best game park, with elephants, lions and the 31°C Wikki Warm Springs to swim in after the drive.
Vast wild scrub-forest frontier.
Wildlife gathered around desert waterholes.
Fog-bound desert shore of shipwrecks, seal colonies and dunes dropping into the Atlantic.
West Africa’s best big-game park — lions, elephants and cheetahs.
Cameroon's premier savanna wildlife park.
Rainforest canopy rope walkway.
Ghana's biggest park, elephants on foot.
Coastal park with elephants near Luanda.
South Africa's flagship Big Five park.
Jordan’s largest reserve drops 1,600 m from highland village to desert, with ibex, Bedouin camps and the Feynan eco-lodge.
Elephant herds among giant baobabs along the Tarangire river.
Vast mangrove delta, home of the Bengal tiger.
A million wildebeest and zebra on the move — Africa’s greatest spectacle.
Roam Huascarán National Park, the highest tropical mountain range on Earth — 660 glaciers under Peru's tallest peak
Descend from cloud forest to jungle floor in Manú, the most biodiverse protected area on the planet
Fly or ice-break to the Snow Hill or Gould Bay colonies to stand among thousands of the largest penguins on Earth.
Sail past icebergs, glaciers and penguin colonies.
Drift past pink river dolphins on an Amazon boat out of Iquitos, the largest city on Earth unreachable by road
Cruise past sea-lion colonies and Humboldt penguins crowding the guano-white cliffs of the Ballestas Islands
Watch Andean condors ride the morning thermals out of Colca Canyon, twice as deep as the Grand Canyon
The world’s largest tropical wetland — the best place in South America to spot jaguars.
Fort ruins and dry forest in Rajasthan where India’s most photographed tigers pad past jeeps in broad daylight.
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