Uganda

The jungle is a seemingly everlasting thicket of tangled green with no street signs, walking trails or Google Maps abilities. It’s exciting, it’s exhilarating and it’s best to come prepared (with more than just a Harrison Ford fedora).

Getting to the gorillas takes more effort, more time and more expense than a traditional safari. But nothing beats the feeling of seeing these incredible creatures in the wild.

As a travel writer and producer, one of my favourite parts of adventuring is the build up of nerves, and subsequent feelings of euphoria, that come with throwing myself well and truly out of my bubble.

Sudan, the world’s last male northern white rhino, has died from age-related health complications. He was 45 years old.

Amazingly, we had encountered a large gathering of six or seven rhinos – adult females and their young – with two one-tonne youngsters jousting in a mock fight barely 20 metres from our bushy refuge. 

I am in Volcanoes National Park in the North West corner of Rwanda, and I’m crouching one metre away from an angry female gorilla…

In Africa, most action takes place on the streets and roadsides – people hawking their wares, kids running to and from school, friends chatting. There’s always movement and there’s always food.