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

Check the security situation before planning any visits.

• 🌍 Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Check the security situation before planning any visits.

• 🌍 Garamba National Park
• 🌍 Virunga National Park

Eswatini

• 🌍 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

Ts'ehlanyane National Park

• 🌍 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 — famous for its incredibly high level of diversity in fish species
• 🌍 Lengwe National Park
• 🌍 Liwonde National Park
• 🌍 Nyika National Park — large highland national park in Malawi

Mozambique

• 🌍 Gorongosa National Park
• 🌍 Limpopo National Park

Namibia

Black rhinoceros and giraffe in Etosha National Park, 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

Check the security situation before planning any visits.

• 🌍 W National Park

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 Africa is home to a vast array of national parks – see South African national parks for coverage of South Africa.

Tanzania

An augur buzzard spreads its wings to take flight in Serengeti National Park

• 🌍 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

• 🌍 Gonarezhou National Park
• 🌍 Hwange National Park (formerly Wankie Game Reserve) — the largest natural reserve in Zimbabwe, at 14,600 km²