With over 1000 miles of beautiful Atlantic coastline, this is where marine turtles come to lay
their eggs. The coast gives Angola a nice breeze (but it’s not Sweden!). Angola is home to
many favourite African animals – elephants, rhinos, leopards and antelopes and western
lowland gorillas.
Setting of the popular No.1 Ladies Detective Agency novels, this sits in the more fertile
Kalahari Desert, and is home to lions, hyenas, antelopes, meerkats and weaver birds in their
communal nests. The national park covers 36,000 square km and animals roam free back
and forth between here and Namibia.
The most southerly landlocked nation, this is called Africa‘s ‘Kingdom in the Sky‘, due to the
stunning mountain scenery and alpine flowers. Some say it resembles Switzerland. If you
meet someone here, they will raise their hand and say ‘Khotso’, which means ‘peace’.
This sits in the in the Kalahari Desert and has less people per square km than any country
bar Mongolia. Parisian Olivier Houalet has become known here, for his work in helping
orphaned cheetahs to live in the wild. Cheetahs are the fastest land mammals and can see
5km into the distance – better than us with a pair of binoculars!
This large country juts so far south, you almost reach Antarctica. It has everything from
2000km of coastline to small islands to the flat-topped Table Mountain to the Kalahari
Desert and Kruger National Park. Find everything from hippos to penguins – locals are
installing the first ‘penguin crossing’ to keep them safe in urban areas.
