East Africa

The Nile forced through a seven-metre gap, with game plains on the north bank.

A fenced rhino sanctuary around a soda lake, easy to slot into a drive north or west.

Tall rainforest with the most reliable chimpanzee tracking in East Africa.

A long white beach with a reef offshore, an hour south of Mombasa.

A deep lake among terraced hills, where you stop and do nothing after the gorillas.

A Swahili town of coral-stone houses with no cars, on an island off the far north coast.

A small, well-run country where gorillas are a two-hour drive from the airport.

The arrival point, with a national park inside the city boundary.

Bamboo and hagenia forest on a chain of volcanoes, with habituated gorilla families living in it.

The biggest wildlife country in the region, with an Indian Ocean island attached to the end of it.