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The North Sahara Safari introduces you to the world’s largest desert and shows you a fascinating, atmospheric landscape of towering dunes, overlooked by faraway mountain massifs, where a surprisingly wide variety of wildlife survives.
The safari will take you through wide plains and deep rocky gulleys, with old cave paintings that show the Sahara as it was tens of thousands of years ago – a place of lush pasture and great herds of wildlife including giraffe.
On the safari you will see the agile Barbary goat from the high Saharan massifs, the Patas monkey and the Dama gazelle.
You will also spot herds of the beautiful Scimitar-horned oryx, now extinct in the wild, and the white coated Addax, which is almost extinct in the wild. It wasn't so long ago that both these desert antelopes occurred in large herds on the edge of the Sahara, following the occasional rains in search of fresh grass. Now, sadly, the Scimitar-horned oryx is no longer in existence and the Addax is not far behind it.
In close collaboration with our partners, we are breeding both of these endangered species, as well as several others, and are working to reintroduce them back to the wild in North Africa. So as well as providing entertainment and education, there is a very serious aspect to our work; we're doing all we can to ensure that no more of the wildlife of the Sahara is lost to history.
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