African national parks
African national parks
Many of these parks are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. They can be visited for safaris, to see the African flora and fauna.
Botswana
- Chobe National Park
- Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
- Makgadikgadi Pans National Park
- Moremi National Park - in the heart of the Okavango Delta
Central African Republic
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
- Hlane Royal National Park - known for its rhinos
Ethiopia
- Abijatta Shalla Lakes National Park
- Awash National Park
- Bale Mountains National Park
- Mago National Park
- Nechisar National Park
- Omo National Park
- Simien National Park — stunning mountain scenery and important wildlife populations in Ethiopia
- Yangudi Rassa National Park
Kenya
- Aberdare National Park
- Amboseli National Park
- Lake Nakuru National Park
- Meru National Park
- Mount Elgon National Park
- Nairobi National Park
- Samburu National Park
- Sibiloi National Park
- Tsavo East National Park
- Tsavo West National Park
Lesotho
- Sehlabathebe National Park — remote mountain reserve great for hiking with rare wildlife, impressive waterfalls, and ancient rock paintings and stone shelters
- Ts'ehlanyane National Park — the largest national park in Lesotho: rugged wilderness at a high altitude
Malawi
- Kasungu National Park
- Lake Malawi National Park
- Lengwe National Park
- Liwonde National Park
- Nyika National Park — large highland national park in Malawi
Mozambique
Namibia
- Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park - including the Fish River Canyon Park
- Bwabwata National Park — Composed by ex "Caprivi Game Park" and ex "Mahango Game Reserve".
- Etosha National Park — Abundant wildlife in the "big white place"
- Fish River Canyon Park — one of the world's largest canyons.
- Khaudum National Park — Maybe the most remote of all Namibian national parks, known for its tourist-terrorising elephants
- Mudumu National Park
- Namib-Naukluft National Park — contains the famous Sossusvlei valley and the world's highest dunes
- Nkasa Lupala National Park
- Skeleton Coast National Park
- Waterberg Plateau Park — Another good place to watch wildlife.
Niger
Nigeria
- Chad Basin National Park
- Cross River National Park
- Gashaka Gumti National Park
- Kainji National Park
- Kamuku National Park
- Okomu National Park
- Old Oyo National Park
- Yankari National Park
Réunion
- Réunion National Park – Réunion's only national park protecting the island's volcano, mountainous landscapes, and a popular spot for hiking
Rwanda
- Akagera National Park
- Volcanoes National Park — in Rwanda is full of impressive rainforest and volcanic scenery of the Virunga Mountains, and is perhaps the best place in the world to see rare mountain gorillas. Also crosses into Uganda where it is known as Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
South Africa
South African national parks are administrated by SANParks (dead link: January 2023).
- Addo Elephant National Park
- Agulhas National Park
- Ai-Ais/Richtersveld Transfrontier Park
- Augrabies Falls National Park
- Bontebok National Park
- Camdeboo National Park
- Golden Gate Highlands National Park
- Karoo National Park
- Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
- Knysna National Lake Area
- Kruger National Park
- Mapungubwe National Park
- Marakele National Park
- Mokala National Park
- Mountain Zebra National Park
- Namaqua National Park
- Table Mountain National Park
- Tankwa Karoo National Park
- Tsitsikamma National Park
- West Coast National Park
- Wilderness National Park
National parks administrated by KZNwildlife (selection):
Wild Card
A daily conservation fee is charged at all National Parks in South Africa, both for day visitors and visitors booking into accommodation in the parks. Should you plan an extended stay within the National Parks it may be cheaper to obtain a Wild Card. The Wild Card is valid for 1 year from the date of purchase and allows access to all SANParks, Cape Nature provincial parks (Western Cape), Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife provincial parks (KwaZulu-Natal), Msinsi private parks and some big game parks in Eswatini (Swaziland) without having to pay the daily conservation fee.
Tanzania
- Arusha National Park
- Gombe National Park
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Mahale Mountains
- Mikumi National Park
- Mkomazi Game Reserve
- Ngorongoro Conservancy
- Ruaha National Park
- Rubondo Island National Park
- Serengeti National Park — huge national park in Tanzania, perhaps the archetypal African game park; becomes the Maasai Mara National Reserve over the border in Kenya
- Selous Game Reserve
- Tarangire National Park
Uganda
- Kabelaga National Park
- Kidepo Valley National Park
- Murchison Falls National Park
- Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Rwenzori National Park — home of the almost mythical, otherworldly scenery of the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda
Zambia
- Blue Lagoon National Park — very accessible, with lechwe, zebra and buffalo
- Kafue National Park — largest national park of the country
- Lavushi Manda National Park
- Liuwa plains National Park
- Lochinvar National Park — excellent for bird watching
- Lower Zambezi National Park
- Luambe National Park — used to be the president's private game reserve, now pristine wilderness without mass tourism
- Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park
- Nsumbu National Park — used to be very popular in the 1970s but has declined in the last decades
- North Luangwa National Park — one of Africa's great safari destinations
- Nyika National Park
- South Luangwa National Park
- Victoria Falls — one of the world's largest waterfalls
Zimbabwe
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