Africa Wild Places Archives - Nikela: Helping People Saving Wildlife

Animal Sightings from Crocodile Bridge to Skukuza – Kruger National Park

Published on Feb 16, 2019

After aborting our journey north to Ethiopia (Margrit's mother passed) we decided to buy a Wild Card and stay south. This is the first of several splendid days in the Kruger National Park. Coming in…

The “Real Africa” – Back roads to Kariba in Zimbabwe

Published on Nov 01, 2018

Category: Africa Wild Places

Definitely the road less traveled! At least by motorized vehicles. The roads from Hwange National Park over to Kariba Zimbabwe is 'real Africa'... the one most of us imagine it to be. Bush, rough…

Dry, oddly beautiful and full of wildlife the Etosha Pan in Namibia

Published on Nov 15, 2017

Category: Africa Wild Places, Amazing Wildlife

How do they survive? The Etosha Pan in Namibia is so desolate, yet elephants, giraffe, rhino, lion, eland, springbok, gemsbok, hyena, jackal and more call her home. It sure was different than we ever…

The Happy and the Sad about wildlife in Amboseli National Park Kenya

Published on Jun 19, 2017

Category: Africa Wild Places, Africa Wildlife Issues, Amazing Wildlife

We'd always wanted to visit Amboseli National Park in Kenya and see wildlife with Kilimanjaro in the background. Its as amazing as the photos. However,the buffer zones are gone. Humanity is…