Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Tourist destination specials in Africa

Do you love being outdoors? Is your idea of vacation involve spending time observing wildlife in their natural habitat? If so, an African safari vacation may be the ideal vacation for you. African safari vacations are popular right now. They're so popular that you'll find many travel agencies and companies offering packages designed to provide tourists a taste of African safari adventure. These package tours are accompanied by experts. If you decide to go on an African safari adventure, you'll be living in lodges and camps with hot showers. Your meals and barbecues would be prepared by a cook hired for your specific African safari tour.

 Kenya is one of the main destinations for this type of vacation and a beach holiday could be combined with an African safari. The country has 40 National Parks and game reserves. One of the most spectacular is the Kimana Game Sanctuary, which is located at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. Two other popular national parks in Kenya are the Mount Kenya National Park, which is a rich rain forest, and Kenya Masai Mara, which consists of stretching plains. If you happen to go on one of the African safari vacations in Kenya, your guide will drive you and the other tourists either in 4x4 vehicles for hire Kenya, open back trucks or mini buses. For an aerial view of the landscape, there are fly/drive packages, using small, light aircraft. Kenya brings opportunities to see leopards, gazelle, crocodiles, giraffes, zebra, lions and hippos. South Africa is the ideal destination for your African safari vacation if you'd like to see different landscapes (e.g., semi-dessert, old forest, open grassland, wetlands, etc.). South Africa's Phinda region can be explored by foot, air or car. Some parties are taken by boat on the waterways. Wildlife sighted here is likely to be lions, rhinos, elephants, buffalo and leopard. The Madikwe Game Reserve contains leopards, elephants and packs of hyenas and wild dogs.

 Uganda and Rwanda are also popular African safari destinations. Uganda is the perfect Uganda gorilla safari destination if you want to see chimpanzees and lowland gorillas in their natural habitat. Gorillas abound at Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. To see the gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest or at the Mgahinga Volcanoes, parties are taken on foot through the tropical rain forest, which is home to many different species of birds. The Murchison Falls National Park can be reached by boat on the River Nile. The waterfall is impressive and the animals in the area include warthogs, zebras and baboons. Rwanda is a haven for mountain gorillas. The slopes of the Parc National des Volcans is where you can see about 300 mountain gorillas. If you want to see lakes, forests, volcanoes and waterfalls, and mountain and lowland gorillas in their natural surroundings.

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