Archive for April, 2010

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    Nyika National Park
    Established in the year 1965, the Nyika National Park is the known to be oldest as well as the largest park all across the country, in addition it covers a total area of somewhere around 3000 sq kms. The main attribute of this park is the well-known Nyika Plateau, by means of a landscape as well as climate that is only one of its kind in Malawi, as well as extraordinary in Africa. The vast range of the elevated rolling hills in the park, along with the sweeping wide valleys, as well as opaque pine forest plus flower-studded grasslands, as well as the sights (usually on the clear days) are never-ending. More willingly than merely being a place to stare at wildlife, what composes Nyika National Park fascinating is the ability to discover an only one of its kind as well as preserved patch of the wilderness within the continent of Africa,  [...]
    Posted at April 16th, 2010 at 05:04 am
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    Volcanoes National Park – Aan Abode To The Gorillas In Africa
    Volcanoes National Park is been located surrounded by the Virunga Mountains, located in the northwestern regions of Rwanda. This park is positioned in the wind ward side of the outstanding mountain series as well as its numerous ecological units, which consist of evergreen as well as bamboo forest, swamp, open grassland, in addition to heath. Volcanoes National Park acknowledged as a place of safety intended for the huge mountain gorilla. In addition it is known  as a home to 5 out of the total 8 volcanoes that are located in the Virunga Mountain ranges (Karisimbi, Muhabura, Bisoke, Gahinga as well as Sabyinyo), which are enclosed in tropical rain forest as well as bamboo. This park was known to be the base used for Dian Fossey. An enlivening trek, all the way through the classy foothills of the well-known regions of Virungas proffers  [...]
    Posted at April 14th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
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    Lake Nakuru National Park – providing an excellent sight of pink flamingos
    Nakuru denotes “Dust or else Dusty Place” in the Maasai language. In addition is the Lake Nakuru National Park, is placed on the brink of Nakuru town, as well as was been established in the year 1961. It was started off an undersized, barely encompassing the renowned lake as well as the neighboring mountainous surrounding area. At the present it has been unlimited to take account of a huge component of the savannahs. Lake Nakuru National Park that encases the lake has been in recent times enlarged to a certain extent as to present an asylum in favor of the black rhino. This commission has demanded a fence – as to keep out the poachers to a certain extent than to put a ceiling on the movement of the wildlifes. This park at the present has above 25 rhinos, which is known to be one of the leading concentrations all across  [...]
    Posted at April 13th, 2010 at 04:04 am
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    Selous Game Reserve – the biggest one in Africa
    African parks as well as reserves customarily publicize themselves for being areas of untouched wilderness; on the other hand there is by no means any question that the tourists will experience safe and sound Africa at the wildest as soon as they take a trip to the Selous Game Reserve, which is questionably the greatest backwoods that is remaining in the continent of Africa. Selous Game Reserve is mammoth almost two times the volume of Kruger National Park, which is located in South Africa, in addition it is known to largest game reserve all across Africa. Owing to its natural assortment as well as safe and sound condition, the Selous Game Reserve was been proclaimed as a World Heritage Site in the year 1988 by UNESCO furthermore in the present day continues to come up to its well-regarded status … Bigger when compared with  [...]
    Posted at April 12th, 2010 at 05:04 am
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    Kasanka National Park – the smallest national park in Zambia
    This is an undersized on the other hand mesmerizing park that takes account of four rivers as well as eight lakes that are flowing into the huge Bengweulu Wetland. Kasanka National Park proffers sparkling angling opportunities, as well as bird watchers who come at this juncture to distinguish immense numbers of exotic birds,  by no means by and large found in the regions of Southern Africa. In additional one is the exceptional as well as atypical seeming Shoebill Stork that bears a resemblance to the vanished Dodo. Moreover the quagmire forests of Kasanka, in addition harbor the exceptional antelope, along with the Sitatunga, which barely survives surrounded by wetland areas as well as is seen once in a blue moon. You might as well eyewitness the manifestation of millions of the fruit bats that comes as to roost. Even though the  [...]
    Posted at April 9th, 2010 at 04:04 am
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    Chobe National Park – an abode for the Kalahari elephants
    Chobe National Park, is placed in the northwestern regions of Botswana, moreover the park has one of the leading game concentration in the continent of Africa. According to the size, this park is known to be the third largest park all across the country, subsequent to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve as well as the Gemsbok National Park, in addition to is the most miscellaneous. This is as well the first national park in the country. Elephant concentration This park is in all probability best acknowledged for its extravagant elephant populace: 50,000 elephants in the present day, it is in point of fact the premier concentration of elephants in Africa. In addition, the majority of them are in all probability part of the leading constant ongoing elephant inhabitants on the earth. The population of the elephant seems to have steadily  [...]
    Posted at April 8th, 2010 at 10:04 am
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    Duba Plains
    About Duba Plains: Duba Plains is located in a Wildlife Management Area located adjacent and north of the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana in southern Africa. It is actually a community area and its affairs are managed by a Trust (Okavango Community Trust) formed by five villages located on the northern perimeter of the Okavango Delta. The Trust has a partnership with Wilderness Safaris, over the community affairs. Duba Plains is known for its wild games, particularly lions, which are seen perhaps in their most ferocious being here. The eternal struggle between the lion prides and the buffalo herds is one of the hallmarks of Duba Plains tourism. Duba Plains Camp: It is a small, remote camp located on a tree-covered island in the Kwedi Reserve. Duba Plains Camp is surrounded by vast open floodplains and grasslands separated from the  [...]
    Posted at April 8th, 2010 at 05:04 am
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    Mahale Mountains National Park – not to be avoided while traveling East Africa
    Mahale Mountains is known to be most isolated park all across Tanzania, moreover it is first and foremost a chimpanzee sanctuary, and on the other hand as well shows off white-sand beaches that are backed by means of lushly wooded mountains. The entrance fees to the park are US$80 for each adult as well as US$30 for each child for each day. All Children who are underneath seven are by no means permitted in the regions of Mahale. In addition camping as well as park bandas are easily booked all the way through the warden at the senior park (the address for the same is PO Box 1374, Kigoma), otherwise all the way through the renowned Kigoma Hilltop Hotel. If you are willing to have a guide in that case the fees for the same are US$20 for each group. You will as well come across a park camp site (charges US$20) as well as a crowd together  [...]
    Posted at April 7th, 2010 at 09:04 am
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    Flamingos of Makgadikgadi Pans
    There are only three places in the entire African continent where flamingos breed, one of them being Sua Pan in Makgadikgadi Pans (the other two being Lake Natron in East Africa and Etosha Pan in Namibia). The fact that the flamingos of Makgadikdai Pan are easily vulnerable to external disturbances has resulted in a limited breeding ground for them. Sua Pan has evolved into a rare breeding site for the flamingos for this largely undisturbed area provides ample food and nest building material to these birds. The fascinating part of the story is that the flamingos begin to flock at Makgadikgadi Pans as soon it turns into a huge water body and ideal for survival of life. Their arrival here is co-ordinated with the advent of the monsoons. About 47,000 Greater Flamingos and 26,000 Lesser Flamingos (two species of all flamingos found worldwide)  [...]
    Posted at April 7th, 2010 at 06:04 am
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