A safari is one of the most immersive wildlife experiences, plunging you into a world where animals hold sway and allowing you to observe how they live. If you dream of going on safari, have a look at the tours below for singles travellers from the UK and start making the dream a reality.

Kruger National Park is regarded as the cream of South Africa’s many reserves, its vast terrain of savannah, grassland and forest featuring all the Big 5 animals (lions, elephants, rhinos, leopards and buffalos) as well as over 500 bird species, including eagles, hornbills and vultures. Many safari holidays in South Africa have the Kruger on their itinerary, while other premier parks include the Hluhluwe Umfolozi Park, the country’s oldest game reserve, and Addo Elephant Park, a major stomping ground for the African bush elephant, the largest land mammal on Earth.

Safari parks are by no means all alike. On safari tours in Namibia, you will discover Etosha National Park, distinguished by a vast salt pan, which at 130 km by 50 km is even visible from space! The park’s low-level vegetation and flat plains make wildlife easy to spot, as do the natural and man-made watering holes, where you might see animals such as lions, zebras, springboks, impalas, elephants or ostriches. Namibia also boasts a large cheetah population, and many tours include visits to conservation centres dedicated to these animals.

There are first-rate safari trips in India, too, forming a highlight of many tours of this fascinating country. Gir National Park is the place to go if you want to see free-roaming Asiatic lions and is also home to graceful leopards, shaggy-coated sloth bears and scaly-skinned Indian pangolins. The highly popular Ranthambore National Park, meanwhile, boasts the swift and powerful Bengal tiger as its star attraction.

Naturalists travelling solo may also want to consider our exciting wildlife holidays in Costa Rica and Ecuador, where treks in tropical rainforests yield sightings of a rich variety of animal species, including sloths, monkeys, iguanas and exotically coloured birds.

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