Travel & Leisure have an interesting list of some of the coolest close-up animal encounters.  Have a look through and see how many YOU have done!

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These are the ones I have done from their list:

3.  Pantanal, Brazil but I didn’t see jaguars.

4.  Chobe, Botswana and yes, I saw lots of elephants!

5.  Kakadu Australia for lots of crocodiles

6.  Serengeti, Tasmania and I did see lions.  Next visit will be for birds!

9.  Zambezi River, Zambia  I was camping across the river in Zimbabwe and woke up to hippo tracks very near my tent………..pretty scary!

11.  Bwindi, Uganda  Seeing mountain gorillas was amazing!  I lucked out and was in teh group that visited the gorilla family near the campground.

13.  Borneo, Indonesia  I was in a different orangutan sanctuary near Sandakan but I did see them!

20.  Macaws in Peru – I’ll take half a point since I saw them in Tambopata but in 2016 I’m going back to visit both Manu & Tambopata!