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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 heart of Zakouma
3,054 km² of floodplain savannah, a herd of over 600 elephants and one of the last Kordofan giraffe populations.
National park
- Elevation
- 430 m
- Coordinates
- 10.8833° N, 19.8167° E
- National park
- Zakouma National Park
History
Created in 1963, Zakouma is Chad's oldest national park. Its ecology is dictated by water: during the rains, June to October, the plain floods and wildlife disperses. Then the water withdraws, the pans dry one by one, and animals concentrate on the last water points — when the park offers its greatest gatherings.
Industrial poaching in the 2000s destroyed nearly 90% of the elephant population. African Parks taking over management in 2010, in partnership with the Chadian government, reversed the trajectory: numbers are climbing, and the herd — exceptionally tight-knit, a behaviour linked to the trauma of poaching — often moves as a single block.
Galerie
The heart of Zakouma 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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