Etosha national park in Namibia is about the easiest safari there is. You don’t get out of your car (unless you’re stupid) and if you’re there at the right time – the end of the dry season – all the animals will be congregating around the shrinking watering holes. There are a couple of lodges inside the park to stay, and they are equipped with floodlit watering holes so that you can view some of the creatures that prefer to come drink at night, like the rhinoceros. I had planned to do a far more expensive fly-in safari in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, but changed my mind at Etosha, where I quickly realized that the chances of seeing a pride of lions bring down a kill right in front of your eyes, like you see on the discovery channel, are extremely slim - you’d probably need a helicopter or six months in the bush. For the 99% of the time that lions are not killing or eating something, they do what a housecat does: lay around. Elephants on the other hand are fascinating animals to observe. They are highly social creatures and watching a family interact is quite fun.