Best Places to See Hippos

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Do you want to find out, what the best places to see Hippos in the wild are?

The name hippopotamus (hippo = horse, potamus = river) is misleading, as the hippo is related to pigs rather than horses.

Yes. Like most herbivores, hippos consume other plants if presented with them, but their diet in nature consists almost entirely of grass.

St Lucia (in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park) is a rather unknown, city but an absolute highlight on any hippo safari. More hippos than people live in St Lucia.

An omnipresent experience in Tanzania’s largest national park is the fight for life and death between predator and prey.

Hluhluwe Park (formerly Hluhluwe Umfolozi Park), 280 km north of Durban, is one of the oldest game reserves in Africa.

The Kruger National Park is the largest game reserve in South Africa. Its area extends from the Crocodile River in the south to the Limpopo, the river that borders Zimbabwe, in the north

The Kazinga Canal is a place with the highest concentration of hippos in the world. The Kazinga Canal is located in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

There are still 5 more incredible spots to encounter hippos!

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