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Australia's Camel Trail | Amar Grover | Australia, Northern Territories, Alice Springs

More surprising, even surreal, is the milieu: I am clinging to a camel in the middle of deepest, reddest Australia

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Impact of Tourism | John Warburton-Lee

On the positive side, safaris produce much needed foreign currency and employment. On the negative side, large numbers of tourists demand an infrastructure that can degrade wilderness areas leaving the landscape criss-crossed with roads and speckled with lodges.

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Kaziranga National Park, Assam | Rob Penn

The Brahmaputra is one of the world’s great rivers. For nearly 1,800 miles, it cuts a blue swathe around the eastern end of the Himalayas and brings to life to the alluvial flood plains and grasslands of northeast India

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Lone Rangers | Kate Morris | South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Phinda

'Occasionally hyenas and baboons raid the laundry yard.’ The ‘fact to note’ on the laundry list in Mountain Lodge - a private game reserve in South Africa - makes me laugh out loud

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Riding with Lions | Julie Miller | Botswana, Moremi and Okavango Delta, Okavango

This is surely the optimum method of game-viewing. On horseback, the approach is silent and intense. You are a participant in the environment, not just a casual observer.

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Safari in Malawi | Jasper Winn | Malawi, Nyika National Park, Vwaza

Totally silent and no more than the blackest of shapes in a blackness silhouetted against the less black waters of the lake, there was all the excitement of Africa in the elephants' ghostly movement

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Safaring in Style in South Africa | Rory Spowers | South Africa, Mpumalanga & Kruger, Kruger National Park

The overnight journey from Pretoria to Hoedspruit takes one into the Northern Province and Mpumulanga, the perfect departure point for Kruger National Park and a variety of private game reserves

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Safaris in the 21st Century | John Warburton-Lee

The word safari is derived from the Arabic, safara - to travel. But what does it mean to go on a safari at the beginning of the new century and how have safaris developed?

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Solo Safari | Richard Newton | Namibia, Etosha National Park, Etosha National Park

Consider the red hartebeest. Few people do. In Etosha National Park, this unassuming, sloping-backed antelope usually plays a supporting role, only taking centre stage when it is being gnawed on by lions.

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Tanzania's Serengeti Plains | Brian Jackman | Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Serengeti

When it comes to national parks, Serengeti is simply the best. So much space. So many animals. The park itself is enormous - at least as big as Holland - its oceans of grass rimmed by immense horizons

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