JOHAN'S TOP 5

TSAVO NATIONAL PARK IN KENYA is probably my favourite national park. I have a big passion for 100-pounder elephant bulls, the big tuskers, and that is one park in the world with probably the highest concentration of those elephants. They’re such incredible animals.

DZANGA-SANGHA NATIONAL PARK in the Central African Republic is a very, very special place. It lies in the middle of the rainforest, in a little V between Cameroon and the Congo. If you want to see forest elephants and western lowland gorillas, that’s the place to go.

NGORONGORO CRATER IN TANZANIA isa very special park. It’s a stunning setting. You also get big bulls there, as well as rhino, lions, buffalo... It’s a wide open system, with no fences, and it’s stunning to see 20 000 to 30 000 wild animals in that crater.

LEWA DOWNS IN THE MIDDLE OF KENYA isa remarkable place. It has a similar feeling to Amboseli, with Mount Kenya and the marshes. But what makes it stand out is you see white and black rhino, almost next to each other, in this open savannah, which is really difficult to see anywhere else.

AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK is another place where you can see the big bull elephants. It’s such a stunning park, with the savannah, the marshes and the bushveld, your typical African scene with Kilimanjaro in the background.