Unique Landscapes
Experience the unforgettable African landscapes
Summary
African landscapes are full of natural contrast. The landscapes must be seen to be believed. From the barren but equally breathtaking red dunes of the Namib Desert, to the thundering mass of water that makes up Victoria Falls, to the rolling grasslands of the Serengeti Plains, everywhere you turn you’ll experience awe-inspiring landscapes and scenes like nothing else on earth.
Highlights
Namibia
Stark, barren, forbidding, and yet at the same time truly breathtaking.
Namibia is a country defined by its landscape. Huge red sand dunes of the Namib Desert rise into clear blue skies, lonely stretches of beach along the Skeleton Coast are home to hundreds of shipwrecks from voyages past. These elements make Namibia feel like a post-apocalyptic wasteland, but it is this desolate grandeur that also gives it its unique beauty.
See Etosha National Park in dry season to find elephant, giraffe, wildebeest & springbok gathering at watering holes. The unique landscapes of Namibia will imprint themselves onto your memory forever.
Tanzania
The impressive Serengeti National Park features landscapes of rolling grassland, savannah, riverine forests and the world’s largest volcanic crater.
The name Serengeti means ‘endless plains’ in the native Maasai language, these vast plains span 15,000-square kilometres and are only broken occasionally by a soaring escarpment stretching into the sky.
To the southeast of the park sits the world’s largest intact, unfilled volcanic caldera, the Ngorongoro Crater. It’s a world in miniature and inside you’ll find east Africa’s great animals. It’s this ever-changing landscape that makes Tanzania such an incredible safari destination.
Botswana
Botswana is a landlocked country full of contrasts, from the lush waterways of the Okavango Delta to the barren plains of the Kalahari Desert.
The Okavango Delta is Botswana’s premier safari location and one of the planet’s largest inland delta’s. It runs through the Kalahari Desert, constantly moving to natures rhythm, rising and falling with seasonal flood waters. Thousands of animals are drawn into this dance.
On the banks of the Okavango River in Chobe National Park you’ll find Africa’s largest concentration of elephants. To the north of the Kalahari Desert you’ll find the vast Magkadigadi Pan, one of the largest salt flats on earth. On this dry, remote and largely uninhabited plain, you’ll feel like the last person on earth.
South Africa
In South Africa’s wild north, you’ll find the nation’s most arresting landscapes.
The Blyde River Canyon is the third largest on earth, a 2.5-kilometre scar carved into red sandstone that makes up part of the imposing Drakensburg escarpment. This striking mountain range features peaks reaching up to 3,500 metres and is a mecca for hikers and trekkers. The lush and varied plant life and breathtaking panoramic mountain scenery is hard to beat.
More than 35,000 rock art images are hidden throughout the Drakensburg mountain range dating back to the Stone Age. This is the largest collection of ancient rock paintings and carvings in Africa. You’ll find a place to feel small in the face of nature’s grandeur here.
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Zambia
In 1855 legendary explorer David Livingstone said of Victoria Falls that "scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight."
More than 160 years later, the colossal waterfall is still an awe-inspiring site. Straddling the borders of Zimbabwe and Zambia you’ll find the famous waterfall Victoria Falls. A two kilometres wide thundering mass of water that plunges over 100 metres throwing a magical mist into the skies above, also known as the Smoke That Thunders.
Many say the view from Zimbabwe offers a more beautiful vantage point, however when viewing from Zambia you’ll see the falls in its full length. Walk across the Knife Edge Bridge, take a dip in the world’s scariest swimming hole, the Devil’s Pool, or simply admire at the world’s largest waterfall in its full wonder from afar.
