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African Safari - where are the best places for wildlife viewing?

Safari Club's guide to the best places to see some of Africa's top game animals

Big 5: Lion, Leopard, Buffalo, Rhino and Elephant
If you want to tick the Big 5 off your list in one trip, the Maasai Mara in Kenya, Kruger National Park and Sabi Sands in South Africa and the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania offer the best chance.

Wild Dog
The Wild Dog is a highly endangered and exciting animal to see. Botswana's Linyanti Wetlands and Okavango Delta , Tanzania's Ruaha and Selous Reserves, Kafue National Park in Zambia and Hwange in Zimbabwe consistently provide good sightings.

Elephant
Most of East and Southern Africa's major Parks have good elephant populations. Chobe Game Reserve and the Okavango Delta in Botswana have the largest populations with over 100000 elephants.

Lions
Lions are widespread and the open plains of the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in East Africa are a good place view lions. The Maasai Mara in Kenya is also a good place to find lions. In Southern Africa, South Luangwa National Park has plentiful lions as do Etosha National Park in Namibia, South Africa's Kruger and Madikwe and all of Botswana's major parks.

Leopards
Leopard are common but can be very difficult to see as they are mainly nocturnal. South Luangwa National park is usually an excellent place to see them on night drives. The private reserves of Sabi Sands around Kruger National Park also usually provide good leopard sightings as the leopards are less shy than elsewhere. Other hotspots are the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Kafue in Zambia, the Maasai Mara in Kenya and Selous in Tanzania.

Cheetah
Cheetah are best spotted in open country, the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, the Maasai Mara in Kenya and the desert reserves of Botswana and Namibia are the best places to find cheetah

Black Rhino
Black Rhino is by far the rarest of the big five and Etosha National Park possibly offers the best chance. The Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania has a reasonable population as does South Africa's Kruger which also has many white rhino. In Kenya well protected specialist conservancies such as Lewa Downs and Ol Pejeta along with the small Lake Nakuryu National Park and the Maasai Mara provide good sightings.

Hippos and Crocodiles
Both animals are common in lakes and rivers throughout East and Southern Africa. The Luangwa, Zambezi and Kafue Rivers in Zambia all have plenty of Crocs and Hippos. Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania and the Grumeti and Mara Rivers in Tanzania and Kenya have some of the biggest crocs. Liwonde National Park in Malawi also offers fine viewing opportunities.

Gorillas
There are only around 800 Mountain Gorillas left in Africa making it the continents most endangered wild animal, seeing this close relative of man in the wild is something very special. You can visit the Mountain Gorillas is in Parc National de Volcans in Rwanda. If you have time, Gorilla Trekking in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest can be the highlight of a general safari to the beautiful country of Uganda the only other place where Mountain Gorillas can be seen.

Chimpanzees
Mahale Mountains National Park on the shores of beautiful Lake Tanganyika is a great place for Chimpanzee Trekking, there are also several places where they can be viewed in Uganda including Kibale and Budongo Forest Reserves and Queen Elizabeth National Park.

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Question for people who listen to classical as well as other types of music?

Do you view them the same way? Do you listen to "classical" music the same way that you listen to popular music like rock and such?

I've always listened exclusively to classical music but recently have started branching out a bit more. Maybe I'm just not getting it, but this music doesn't seem to have as much depth. I just can't focus on it, it doesn't keep my attention at all. It seems really boring by comparison. What is the major draw? What am I missing?

I know that it's not just that it's worse music because plenty of intelligent people who know music listen to both, and I respect the people who recommended bands to me (Muse, Metalica, Pink Floyd, Queen, Megadeth, Def Leopard, Supertramp), but I guess I'm missing something.
Are you saying the enjoyment of popular music comes exclusively from the "catchyness" of a tune, or how it makes you tap you foot? That seems rather superficial...

Elements. The world of music, like pretty much everything else, is made up of elements. There is no kind of music in which I have found nothing to appreciate. Sure, classical and classical-style music are typically more complex than folk, rock, rap, reggae, New Age, pop, heavy metal, and so on and on and on....but complexity does not necessarily make music "better" or "worse."

I am thankful that I can ride trains of emotion with almost any musical experience; nor would I think less of anyone for having narrow tastes in music, no matter what the type of music. I do believe, though, that those who limit themselves to narrow musical experiences (some folks even refuse to try anything outside their comfort zone, which can be a single genre) deprive themselves of enrichment.

Another answerer said "i listen to nearly anything, assuming its not talentless garbage (modern country, rap, etc). the key for me is artistic value. history, culture, and complexity are a few features i look for." I wonder how one can seek artistic value, history, and culture and not find it virtually oozing from virtually all types of music, including the two-plus types that answerer parenthetically listed (modern country, rap, etc.).

It certainly does not make me any smarter or better to be able to find enjoyment in Queen, A Perfect Circle, Albinoni, Glenn Yarbrough, Enya, the mbira, the Ramayana Monkey Chant, street blues of Chicago (God, I miss the Maxwell Street market), Roger Miller, Reba McEntire, Libera, the Land of Lakes Choirboys, Metallica (they do a cool version of Whiskey in the Jar), bouzouki music, Finbar Furey, Larry Long, Country Joe McDonald, Nazareth, Joan Baez, Roberta Peters, Rob Thomas (with and without Matchbox Twenty), countless "garage bands" who may never really go anywhere but who offer gifts to those who will accept, The New Christy Minstrels, Vivaldi, Puccini, Grieg, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scott McKenzie, Bob Dylan, Eddy Arnold, Jane Olivor, Liona Boyd, Simply Red, Pachelbel, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Joseph McManners, Patti Page, Outkast, The Roots, Bob Marley, Shaggy, John Denver, John McCutcheon, John Gorka, The Scorpions, Poison, Motley Crue, Smetana, Dvorak, and as many others as possible.

No, it does not make me smarter or better, but I think it makes me rich.

I guess I can't look at every type of music in exactly the same way, but I can look at them with an eye and ear for appreciation. And with gratitude. Sometimes it is the lyrics and message that makes a piece really stand out, and sometimes it is the melody, and sometimes it is the history (of the performer, the composer, the genre, and more), and sometimes it is the simplicity, and sometimes it is the complexity, and sometimes it is the poetry (tonal, mathematical, or verbal), and sometimes, well, you get the idea...there are many reasons to enjoy or at least appreciate different types of music. I sometimes let the moment determine the mood and thus the music, or sometimes I let the mood determine the moment and music, or sometimes I let the music determine the mood and the moment.

Hey, great question, and you are getting some really interesting answers. Thanks for asking.

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