I live in a mountain community mostly consisting of retired people 20= miles from Jackson, CA- we are fortunate to have a variety of small businesses that make it convenient to not have to drive 20+ miles down to Jackson for any major shopping. One of those businesses is a small but good grocery store with all the thing of a larger supermarket
- good meat, produce, deli Items not carried by Dollar G. - Well a couple years ago Dollar G came up with a deal to take over the lease on the building of the grocery store- the areas population screamed blood murder - got petition and stopped the take over - well Dollar G bought a lot across the road built a building and was quoted of saying "they were going to run the grocery store out of business - as I said we are in a mountain community 3,500 ft elevation it is known as "the snow line" we get some snow 4 to 10 inches mostly but every year or so 18 to 24 comes in and dew to this being CA some times it is quite wet and heavy OK Dollar G is cheap on everything so the must have been cheap on their building as on our first snow fall this year it was heavy and deep 30 inches on my driveway. This was too much for the new Dollar G store as the roof caved in, destroying the building - no word of them rebuilding.

To follow on Steve's post, there are now walking safaris in some places. You may have seen a recent Youtube video by a (in)famous YouTuber (TML, initials), on getting on the ground so you can shoot at eye level lions and the painted dogs. Not sure personally I would do this (with a lion or painted dog) though for the first time ever our guide in Tanzania allowed us to do that with a cheetah (we stayed next to the vehicle). It was quite a thrill when it ran by us. Got some of my favorite shots that way, like this one:

We traveled to South Africa in the fall of ‘22. Our first stop was a 3 day Safari on a private reserve adjacent Kruger National Park. There are many of these preserves adjacent Kruger and with no fences the animals wander around freely. All the Safari camps seem to use 9 person custom Toyota Land Cruisers, 3 rows of 3. Twice daily trips with a morning trip at 5:30 am that lasts 3-4 hours and an evening trip of similar duration starting at 4. In three days we saw an immense variety of game, all the so called big five; rhino, elephant, leopard, lion and water Buffalo. Plus hippo, wild dog, giraffe, 4-5 varieties of antelope, hyena, zebra and more. We stayed at Tangala Safari camp, I recommend it highly if you go. We traveled the south coast along the “Garden Route” with seals, ostrich, the famous penguin colony at Boulders Beach.
I rented a Nikon S 100-400 for the trip and it worked out quite well. There were times I needed a 600 lens. If you’re a Nikon shooter you might consider the 400 with the internal flip down 2x tele converter.
SÁ is one of many fine locations for wildlife. Also consider looking into Botswana, Kenya, and Namibia. We met people who spoke very highly of all of them.