In 1936, famous Berenty reserve around 90 kilometres west of Tolagnaro has been founded by Henry and Alain de Heaulme, who had received the license to exploit 6.000 ha of land along Mandrare river to clear the forest and plant sisal. It was agreed to employ the locals which made the communities less vulnerable to […]
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Parc National d’Andohahela
This prime National Park alongside RN13 west of Tolagnaro is divided into three separate sectors covering 76.140 ha in total between 120 und 1.972 m altitude. The UNESCO world heritage site protects lowland rainforest as well as dry spiny forest and the extraordinary transitional forest in between the two. Andohahela is most famous for being […]
Saiadi botanical garden
North of Tolagnaro and just across the road from Nahampoana, Saiadi botanical garden is its counterpart with an emphasis on the botanical side, although there are also tame ring-tailed lemurs as well as brown lemurs, chameleons and many birds. The neatly laid-out park is protected since 1938, but in 2025 we found it quite deserted, […]
Nahampoana Reserve
Situated only a few kilometres north of Tolagnaro, Nahampoana Reserve protects a small patch of rainforest as well as some bamboo forest and mangroves along an overgrown channel crossing the reserve. Originally, it had been founded as a botanical garden around 1900, but later it was used for forestry before it became a reserve after […]
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Chobe National Park
Chobe River floats through northern Botswana and marks the border to Zambezi Region (hist.: Caprivi Strip) in Namibia as well as with Zambia before flowing into Zambezi River at the quadripoint of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe at Kazungula. It´s born in the highland of Angola under the name Cuando, and from there it meanders […]
Kafue National Park
Kafue National Park is a protected area of many superlatives. With a size of 22.480 km2, it is not only the largest National Park in the country but also one of the largest worldwide and more than half the size of Switzerland. Furthermore, it is the first National Park in Zambia, founded in 1950, but […]
Ngonye Falls – Die Ngonye-Fälle
Driving from Mongu, the capital of Barotseland in western Zambia, on the well-developed M10, which runs parallel to Zambezi River on its eastern side, in south-eastern direction to Sesheke at the Namibian border, one passes the small town of Sioma halfway. South of Sioma, the bridge crosses Zambezi River from east to west, and between […]
Lake Kariba & Siavonga
Deep in the south of Zambia, Lake Kariba is situated as a result of staunching Zambezi River just downstream Victoria Falls. In 1958, the dam was finished, and the impounding of water in the lake commenced. Official opening took place in 1960, carried out by Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mum. It is not quite 100 […]
Lake Mburo National Park
Lake Mburo and the eponymous National Park protecting 260 km2 of rolling hills, forests, and bush savanna is an underrated gem in Uganda’s impressive set of National Parks. The landscape surrounding the five lakes within the park is picturesque at least, and there is an abundance of wildlife ranging from zebra and antelope, like the […]
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