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Kenya / Tanzania / Rwanda
Big Five safari
Lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino, found in Akagera, the Mara, the Serengeti and Ngorongoro.
About Big Five safari
Rhino is the hard one. Black rhino odds are best on the Ngorongoro Crater floor, and Akagera now holds lion and rhino after both were returned to the park. Leopard comes down to a guide who knows which riverside tree it is using, so we ask about the guide before the lodge.
What decides it
- Best rhino odds
- Ngorongoro Crater floor
- Hardest to see
- Leopard, then rhino
- Game drives
- Dawn and late afternoon
Photographs of Big Five safari
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