Botswana

Why go: This nation’s focus is on high-end, low-impact tourism, so the properties are all very luxurious and the crowds you see in East Africa are noticeably absent right here. It’s the place to go in Africa for up-close wildlife experiences, sans crowds.

Plus, the panorama is solely beautiful with the Okavango Delta, so as a substitute of conventional sport drives by car, you’ll be capable to exit in mokoros (conventional dug-out canoes), which brings you eye-level with the sport. Nothing says safari like being 5 toes away from a washing elephant.

When to go: The sport viewing will get progressively higher within the winter, from June by way of September, after the Okavango Delta floodwaters have began to recede. September is taken into account peak season.