Your Guide to some of the best lodges in Africa

Most well travelled birders will have visited Africa at some point, either independently or as part of a guided tour. Birdlife on the continent is prolific; other wildlife watching opportunities abound, infrastructure around the main game parks is excellent – and all brought together under those big African skies. If you're planning your next birding trip to Africa, then this quick guide to more than 50 of the best lodges on the continent should get you off to a good start. Whether you're heading for the Mara, the Kruger or Serengeti, or the forests of Uganda, the wilderness of the Namib Desert, the teeming life of the Chobe, the Victoria Falls or the islands off the coast of Mozambique, we’ve mapped it all. Follow the link for lodges in The Azores Botswana The Gambia Kenya Mozambique Namibia South Africa Tanzania The Seychelles Uganda Zambia Read independent trip reports from Africa