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Zakouma Safari
Nine days in the most accomplished park in Central Africa, when wildlife concentrates on the last pans.
- Duration
- 9 days
- Group size
- 2–8
Zakouma National Park
The Rigueik Pans
At the end of the dry season, thousands of crowned cranes, pelicans and marabous gather on these pans — one of Africa’s great bird spectacles.
Natural site
- Coordinates
- 10.9500° N, 19.7000° E
- Natural site
- Zakouma National Park
History
Rigueik is the climax of the dry season at Zakouma. As the park's pans dry out, wildlife falls back on the last sheets of water. Rigueik is one of them, and the result is striking: columns of crowned cranes in their thousands, white pelicans in tight rafts, marabous, saddle-billed storks, and around them elephants, buffalo and antelope coming to drink.
The peak falls in March–April, just before the first rains.
Galerie
The Rigueik Pans en images
Our journeys
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DesertDemanding
Complete Chad: Ennedi and Zakouma
Eighteen days crossing the country north to south: the desert, then the savannah and its elephants.
- Duration
- 18 days
- Group size
- 4–10
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