The document discusses several of the best wildlife parks in Africa, highlighting their key features. Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya is known for its lions, cheetahs, elephants, and over 470 bird species. Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is famous for its annual wildebeest migration and has over 1.5 million wildebeest. Kruger National Park in South Africa allows visitors to see the "Big 5" - lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, and buffalos. The Okavango Delta in Botswana is one of the world's largest inland deltas and home to popular parks like Moremi and Chobe.
2. Maasai Mara National Reserve
• Maasai Mara National Reserve is in southwestern Kenya, along the Tanzanian
border.
• Its animals include lions, cheetahs, elephants, zebras, and hippos.
• Approximately 470 species of birds have been identified in the park and most of
them are migrants.
Address: Narok, Kenya
Area: 1,510 km²
Time: Open 24 hours
3. Serengeti National Park
• The Serengeti ecosystem in the Mara and Simiyu regions embrace the
Serengeti National Park.
• This National Park in Tanzania is famous for its annual migration of more than
1.5 million white-bearded (or brindled) wildebeest and near about 250,000
Zebra and for its numerous Nile crocodile and honey badger.
Address: Tanzania
Area: 14,750 km²
Visitors: 350,000 per year
4. Kruger National Park
• To the North-East of South Africa lies The Kruger National Park (KNP) that
runs along the border of Mozambique in the east, Zimbabwe in the north,
and the southern border is the Crocodile River.
• Here you can easily spot the Big 5: lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, and
buffalos.
Address: South Africa
Area: 19,485 km²
Time: Opens 6 AM Fri
5. Okavango Delta
• The Okavango Delta is one of the world’s largest inland deltas and is
located in Botswana.
• Botswana’s most popular parks are the Okavango Delta, Moremi, and
Chobe.
Location: Botswana
Area: 2,023,590 ha
6. Volcanoes National Park
• Volcanoes National Park is located to the far northwest of Rwanda.
• Home of some of the vulnerable species such as the mountain gorilla and
a rich mosaic of mountain ecosystems, which embrace evergreen and
bamboo forest, open grassland, swamp, and heath.
Address: king, Ruhengeri, Rwanda
Area: 160 km²
Time: Opens 6 AM Fri
7. Etosha National Park
• One of Southern Africa’s finest and most important Game Reserves is Etosha
National Park.
• The large mammals in Etosha National Park include lion, leopard, elephant,
rhino, giraffe, wildebeest, cheetah, hyena, mountain and plains zebra,
springbok, kudu, gemsbok, and eland.
Address: Namibia
Area: 22,270 km²
Visitors: 200000 (in 2010
8. Bwindi Park
• Bwindi Park lies to the South-Western part of Uganda, at the junction of
the plain and mountain forests.
• Bwindi Park is known for its exceptional biodiversity, with more than 160
species of trees and over 100 species of ferns.
Address: Buhoma, Uganda
Area: 331 km²
Time : Opens 6AM Fri
9. Masoala National Park
• The Masoala National Park is situated in the Masoala peninsula which lies
to the North-East of Madagascar.
• The park was established in 1997 and it protects 2,300 square kilometers
of rainforest and 100 square kilometers of marine parks.
Address: Madagascar
Time :Opens 7:30AM Fri