One of the world's largest wetlands.
Africa's second-greatest antelope migration.
Boardwalk to nesting wandering albatrosses — the largest wingspan of any bird — on a tiny island in the Bay of Isles.
Beaches packed with seals and penguins.
Giant otters on the Rupununi river.
Pristine rainforest and canopy walk.
River of remote villages and carvings.
Remote northern savanna park of lions, elephants and giant eland at the heart of a huge protected wilderness.
Zimbabwe's largest game reserve.
Walking safaris on the Zambezi floodplain among famously relaxed elephants.
Dunes, canyons and dinosaur fossils.
Sandstone arches and rock art in the Sahara.
Glide by dugout canoe through the delta.
Vast savanna park on the South Sudan border, one of Africa's oldest, known for elephants, giraffes and a hard-won conservation comeback.
Travel the mighty river by boat.
Restored park with elephants and lions.
Hidden desert waterhole in the Ennedi where camel caravans meet Nile crocodiles.
Vast wild scrub-forest frontier.
Fog-bound desert shore of shipwrecks, seal colonies and dunes dropping into the Atlantic.
Restored park of returning wildlife.
Reed-island marshes, UNESCO-listed.
Travel the Niger by pirogue.
South Africa's flagship Big Five park.
Vast mangrove delta, home of the Bengal tiger.
Jordan’s largest reserve drops 1,600 m from highland village to desert, with ibex, Bedouin camps and the Feynan eco-lodge.
A city reachable only by river or air, gateway to lodges where pink dolphins, sloths and macaws fill the flooded forest.
Sail past icebergs, glaciers and penguin colonies.
Fly or ice-break to the Snow Hill or Gould Bay colonies to stand among thousands of the largest penguins on Earth.
Venture into the world's greatest rainforest.
Remote geyser basin on the volcanic Kamchatka peninsula, reachable only by helicopter.
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