Wild Safari Drone Videos

Award-winning content creator Sandrine Hecq brings us this fantastic drone video tour of a lodge in the heart of Africa's safari country.  The Hideaways Mogotlho Safari Lodge is located on the Khwai River in Mababe, Botswana.  It's situated in a region of national parks and preserves in the northern part of the country, not far from the country's northern border with Angola.  Featuring luxurious tented camps, the lodge offers environmentally friendly access to diverse safari wildlife ranging from hippo's and giraffes to lions and zebras.  

Kruger National Park is a gigantic wild game preserve in northeastern South Africa, covering parts of the Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces.  At over 11k square km (over 7k square mi), the great park is roughly the size of the USA state of New Jersey.  Contrbutor Beemflights used a drone to create this epic aerial tour of this amazing  park, which teems with wildlife and is considered the world's largest reserve park.  Watch this drone video and you will see many many wild animal species from an entirely new (aerial) perspective.  

Award-winning contributor and drone pilot Mike Bishop was supported by DJI to make this incredible film of wildlife in Namibia in southern Africa.  Shot on the Erindi game reserve, it features elephants, lions, cheetahs, hyenas, ostriches, crocodiles, other exotic animals only found in Africa.  Chosen as a winner of the AirVuz Drone Video of the Week and Drone Video of the Month, it went on to win the Drones for Good category in the second annual Drone Video Awards and was named the Drone Video of the Year.

If you enjoy seeing dramatic aerial shots of African safari animals, this very professional reel of Namibia from contributor and professional drone piloting company Aeronauten-tv.de is for you.  Shot across the vast southwestern Africa country, you will be treated to bird's eye views of gazelles, giraffes, zebras, and more, running this way and that in large formations.  Watch it and you will understand why this former German colony in southwestern Africa is widely considered to be one of the world's best safari destinations.  

Among other things, Kenya is known for its spectacular wildlife.  It is home to some of the world's largest populations of species such as  lions, leopard, buffalo, and rhinoceros.  Unfortunately, some of these species are under pressure due to poaching and land encroachment.  Contributor Dice Travels put together this beautiful drone video of Kenya's elephants, which have suffered due to the demand for ivory.  Elephant hunting has been banned in Kenya since 1973 and carries severe penalties.  

Contributor and pilot FreD served up this epic video of the wildllife of the Altiplano in northern Chile.  Also known as the Andean Plain or the Bolivian Plain, the Altiplano is a key component of the Andes Mountain system.  It is the second largest high plateau in the world after the Tibetan Plateau.  It is dominated by vicuna and llama herding, species which you'll see in abundance in this spectacular video.  Most of the Antiplano territory is in Bolivia and Peru; it covers only a small amount of territory in Chile.

Behold this magnificent aerial tour of Kenya, compliments of top contributor iDrone Aerials.  He was able to fly a drone over some of the top spots for seeing safari animals in this African nation: Masai Mara National Park on the Serengeti, Lake Nakuru National Park in the Rift Valley, Lake Naivashi, and the Amboseli National Park.  Watch it and you will see some incredible views of hippo's, zebras, elephants, giraffes, buffalo, lions, and more. This video was nominated for Drone Video of the Week.

Aerial views of this parade of elephants, from contributor zekedrone, reveals the strength, loyalty, and beauty of these amazing creatures! High above the plains of Tanzania in Sub-Saharan Africa, we watch as the elephant family roams across the vast landscape sticking together. It's fun to watch as the youngsters of the group quicken their steps to keep up with the elders' longer strides in this video.  This video was selected as a Finalist for the Drone Video of the Week contest in November, 2018.

The mid-sized African country of Botswana has some of the largest populations of safari animals.  Many of these animals live on large game preserves and in national parks which dot the landlocked country in the southern part of the continent.  Perhaps the most important of these is Chobe National Park, the first national park in the country and now its third largest.  In this video, content creator and drone pilot FreD ...///... does a phenomenal job of filming a herd of zebras in the great park. 

Ride along with contributor and drone pilot Kukso66 for an epic aerial tour of Kenya's Tsavo National Park, one of the most storied safari destinations in Africa.  The largest and oldest Kenyan park, it covers almost 14k square km (around 5k square mi.) in the southern part of the country.  The park is primarily covered in grasslands and savanna, and it's known throughout the world both for its stunning rock formations as well as for its large safari mammal population, notably the famous Tsavo Lions.   

Although it is less than a minute in length, this piece by contributor and drone pilot Ty Poland brings you over a dozen aerial views of some of the safari animals in Tanzinia. The east African country is known for its seemingly endless wilderness areas (particularly the vast Serengeti grasslands) and is a home to thousands upon thousands of what are known as the "big five" safari animal species - elephants, rhinos, lions, leopards, and buffalo. We'd call this video an adventure to remember for Ty and his crew. 

Contributor Kukso66 used drone and ground camera footage to create this video record of a trip to Kenya's  famous Maasai Mara game reserve.  It's situated in the southwestern part of the country, bordering Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.  The reserve covers just over 1.5k square km (around 580 square mi.).  It's home to a substantial large cat population, and is directly in the path of the annual Great Migration by which wildebeests, zebras, and related animals travel in and out of the Serengeti.