Where can you see the Brown Hyena?
Some of the best places to see the Brown Hyena in the wild include Waterberg Plateau National Park (Namibia), Namib-Naukluft National Park (Namibia) and NamibRand Nature Reserve (Namibia) — among 10 wildlife hotspots across Namibia, South Africa and Botswana. Every hotspot below shows real sighting data and the best seasons to visit.
Dorob National Park
Henties Bay, Namibia
+118 birds+30 mammals
Where the Skeleton Coast’s haunting dunes surrender to gravel plains and rocky outcrops, an extraordinary expanse of Namibian wilderness unfolds […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKMapungubwe National Park
Musina Local Municipality, Botswana
+132 birds+30 mammals
Where the Limpopo River carves a boundary between nations, ancient sandstone cliffs rise in sculptured isolation above riverine woodland and […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKMarakele National Park
Modimolle Local Municipality, South Africa
+122 birds+30 mammals
Where granite gorges slice through the bushveld and ancient mountains rise in weathered majesty, southern Africa’s most underrated wilderness unfolds […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKMountain Zebra National Park
Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality, South Africa
+123 birds+30 mammals
Jagged sandstone peaks rise abruptly from the high interior plateau of the Eastern Cape, their weathered faces sculpted by millennia […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKNamib-Naukluft National Park
Namibia
+119 birds+30 mammals
Where rust-coloured dunes rise like frozen waves against an impossibly blue sky, Africa’s oldest desert unfolds across nearly 95,000 square […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKNamibRand Nature Reserve
Hammerstein, Namibia
+66 birds+30 mammals
Where rust-coloured dunes surrender to sculpted granite outcrops and vast plains stretch toward an endless horizon, one of southern Africa’s […]
VIEW NATURE RESERVEPilanesberg National Park
Moses Kotane Local Municipality, South Africa
+130 birds+30 mammals
Where ancient volcanic calderas rise above the surrounding lowveld, a 734-square-kilometre sanctuary unfolds across the North West Province of South […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARKSkeleton Coast Park
Barcelona, Namibia
+28 birds+9 mammals
Where the Atlantic’s cold Benguela Current meets the Namib Desert’s endless dunes, one of Africa’s most haunting and biodiverse coastlines […]
VIEW OBSERVATION POINTSperrgebiet National Park
Barcelona, Namibia
+119 birds+30 mammals
Where the Namib Desert’s red dunes collide with the Atlantic’s cold embrace, over 56,000 square kilometers of raw wilderness unfolds […]
VIEW NATIONAL PARK