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Every great park, and how to see it well

671 parks in 116 countries. For each one: what to see, which tour to book, and when to go.

Torres del Paine National Park · Photo: LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Yala National Park

Sri Lanka

Yala is Sri Lanka's most visited national park and the place with the best odds of seeing a wild leopard anywhere…

314 tickets & tours

Arusha National Park

Tanzania

Arusha National Park is the small park on the doorstep of the safari capital of northern Tanzania, twenty-five…

293 tickets & tours

Serengeti National Park

Tanzania

The Serengeti is the most famous safari park in the world, and the tours sold for it are almost all multi-day trips…

217 tickets & tours

Amboseli National Park

Kenya

Amboseli is the park for elephants against the backdrop of Kilimanjaro, and it is close enough to Nairobi, about four…

215 tickets & tours

Cinque Terre National Park

Liguria, Italy

Cinque Terre National Park protects the five fishing villages and terraced cliffs of the Ligurian coast between Levanto…

211 tickets & tours

Tarangire National Park

Tanzania

Tarangire is the elephant park of northern Tanzania and, at two hours by paved road from Arusha, the easiest of the…

209 tickets & tours

Mikumi National Park

Tanzania

Mikumi is the safari park for people based on the coast: four to five hours by road west of Dar es Salaam, and…

190 tickets & tours

Grand Canyon National Park

Arizona, United States

The Grand Canyon, in northern Arizona, is the most famous natural sight in the United States, and the first thing a…

180 tickets & tours

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What this site is

A great park rewards the visitor who knows what to look for. The same country has a park with a queue at the gate, a reserve where the animals are easier to find and a valley almost nobody visits, and the official sites describe each one in the same words. We write the part they leave out: which park shows what you came for, which tour or ticket is the sensible one, and which season avoids the rain, the heat and the crowds.

Every page is written by hand from the park's own facts and the tours actually on sale. Where a ticket or a tour can be booked online, the live calendar is on the page; where nothing is sold, we say so and point to the nearest park that does. Bookings go through GetYourGuide, and the links earn us a commission at no cost to you.