Kissama National Park: Operation Noah's Ark Wildlife
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Kissama National Park: Operation Noah's Ark Wildlife

Drive 70 km south to Kissama — Angola's most accessible national park, repopulated with elephants, buffalo, and giant sable antelope after the civil war

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    Kissama Park Gate

    Enter the 990,000-hectare coastal park where the miombo forest meets the Atlantic coast — Angola's most accessible wilderness area

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    Operation Noah's Ark Herd

    The famous project that lifted elephants from Botswana and South Africa to repopulate war-depleted Kissama — the herd now exceeds 200 animals

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    Giant Sable Antelope Sanctuary

    Palanca negra gigante – Angola's national symbol and one of the world's rarest antelopes – has a protected sanctuary in the park

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    Hippos in the Kwanza River

    The Kwanza River forms the park's eastern boundary where hippos, crocodiles and waders congregate around the permanent water

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    Atlantic Coast Drive

    The western border of the park runs along the Atlantic Ocean — a surreal landscape where African savanna meets the cold Benguela Current

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    Overnight at Picadas Lodge

    A tented camp inside the park for dawn game drives as elephants visit the waterhole and lions call from the remote miombo forest

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