Sagarmatha National Park
Nepal
Sagarmatha National Park, in the Khumbu region of north-eastern Nepal, contains Mount Everest and several others of the…
121 tickets & tours
Asia
Best national parks in Asia
12 national parks in Asia, ranked by why it makes the list from the catalogue data. Each page tells you what to see, which tour or ticket to book and when to go.
| # | Park | Country | Why it makes the list |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sagarmatha National Park | Nepal | The Everest region: the world's highest mountains and the trek every walker dreams of. |
| 2 | Ranthambore National Park | India | India's most photogenic tiger reserve, easily reached from Jaipur and Delhi. |
| 3 | Yala National Park | Sri Lanka | The best odds of a wild leopard anywhere, plus elephants, sloth bears and a wild coast. |
| 4 | Komodo National Park | Indonesia | Dragons on land and mantas under water, from a boat out of Labuan Bajo. |
| 5 | Zhangjiajie National Forest Park | China | Three thousand sandstone pillars in the mist, the landscape that inspired Avatar. |
| 6 | Jiuzhaigou National Park | China | Lakes of impossible blue beneath snow peaks in northern Sichuan, finest in October. |
| 7 | Chitwan National Park | Nepal | One-horned rhinos on jeep, canoe and walking safaris in the Nepali lowlands. |
| 8 | Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park | Japan | Mount Fuji, the Hakone hot springs and the Izu coast, an hour or two from Tokyo. |
| 9 | Khao Sok National Park | Thailand | Ancient rainforest, limestone cliffs and floating bungalows on Cheow Lan lake. |
| 10 | Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park | Vietnam | The greatest caves on earth, from an easy boat ride to the Son Doong expedition. |
| 11 | Kaziranga National Park | India | Two thirds of the world's one-horned rhinoceroses, on the floodplain of the Brahmaputra. |
| 12 | Gunung Mulu National Park | Malaysia | Borneo's vast caves, a nightly river of bats and razor-sharp limestone pinnacles. |
Ranthambore National Park
Rajasthan, India
Ranthambore is India's most famous tiger reserve and the easiest to reach, three hours by train from Jaipur and…
147 tickets & tours
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
Komodo National Park
Indonesia
Komodo is the dragon park in the islands between Sumbawa and Flores, reached from Labuan Bajo on Flores, an hour and a…
16 tickets & tours
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park
China
Zhangjiajie is the park of sandstone pillars in Hunan that inspired the floating mountains of Avatar, and it is sold in…
29 tickets & tours
Jiuzhaigou National Park
China
Jiuzhaigou is a valley of coloured lakes and waterfalls in the mountains of northern Sichuan, on the edge of the…
4 tickets & tours
Chitwan National Park
Nepal
Chitwan is Nepal's answer to an African safari, a lowland jungle park in the Terai five or six hours by road from…
77 tickets & tours
Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park
Japan
Fuji-Hakone-Izu is the most visited national park in Japan, and it is not one place but four, scattered across four…
2 tickets & tours
Khao Sok National Park
Thailand
Khao Sok is the rainforest park between Phuket, Khao Lak and Surat Thani in southern Thailand, two hours from Khao Lak…
16 tickets & tours
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park
Vietnam
Phong Nha-Ke Bang is the cave country of central Vietnam, forty-five minutes inland from Dong Hoi, which has an airport…
8 tickets & tours
Kaziranga National Park
Assam, India
Kaziranga lies on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra in the state of Assam, in the north-east of India, and it is the…
1 ticket or tour
Gunung Mulu National Park
Malaysia
Gunung Mulu, in the interior of the Malaysian state of Sarawak in northern Borneo, close to the border of Brunei,…
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