safari

2 essays tagged “safari”.

Spray rises from the wide curtain of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi.

Livingstone, Zambia

Victoria Falls: the smoke that thunders on the Zambezi

Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya, 'the smoke that thunders' in Lozi) is 1.7 km wide and drops 108 m, with a peak-season volume that throws spray a kilometre into the sky. A guide to seeing it without rushing, and to combining it with the upper Zambezi.

August 10, 2022

Wildebeest move across the Serengeti grasslands under a lone acacia.

Africa

Seronera, Tanzania

Serengeti: the East African plains and the great migration

The wildebeest migration through the Serengeti and Maasai Mara — 1.5 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra, 500,000 gazelle moving in an annual circuit — is the largest movement of land mammals on earth. The trick to seeing it is matching your visit to the herds, which is harder than the brochures suggest.

July 4, 2022