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Best national parks for families in Asia

Asia's family-friendly parks are mostly short, vehicle-based or boat-based visits. A three-hour jeep safari in Yala or Minneriya suits children far better than an all-day game drive, and elephants are almost guaranteed. Ranthambore offers tigers from a canter with a fort in the background. In Thailand, the Hong islands, Phang Nga Bay and Doi Inthanon are day trips with little walking, and Phu Quoc combines forest with beaches and a cable car. Chitwan adds canoe rides and an elephant breeding centre.

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1 Yala National Park Sri Lanka 314 tickets and tours
2 Phu Quoc National Park Vietnam 166 tickets and tours
3 Ranthambore National Park India 147 tickets and tours
4 Minneriya National Park Sri Lanka 127 tickets and tours
5 Than Bok Khorani National Park Thailand 79 tickets and tours
6 Chitwan National Park Nepal 77 tickets and tours
7 Ao Phang Nga National Park Thailand 73 tickets and tours
8 Doi Inthanon National Park Thailand 72 tickets and tours
9 Mount Merapi National Park Indonesia 71 tickets and tours
10 Cuc Phuong National Park Vietnam 64 tickets and tours
11 Wilpattu National Park Sri Lanka 54 tickets and tours
12 Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve Vietnam 50 tickets and tours
13 Pu Luong Nature Reserve Vietnam 43 tickets and tours
14 Ala-Archa National Park Kyrgyzstan 42 tickets and tours
15 Phnom Kulen National Park Cambodia 42 tickets and tours
16 Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park Thailand 37 tickets and tours
17 Udawalawe National Park Sri Lanka 36 tickets and tours
18 Kaudulla National Park Sri Lanka 33 tickets and tours
19 Tarutao National Park Thailand 31 tickets and tours
20 Zhangjiajie National Forest Park China 29 tickets and 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

Phu Quoc National Park

Vietnam

Phu Quoc National Park covers the forested northern two-thirds of Phu Quoc, Vietnam's largest island, and it is…

166 tickets & tours

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

Minneriya National Park

Sri Lanka

Minneriya is the park of the elephant gathering, the largest seasonal concentration of Asian elephants in the world,…

127 tickets & tours

Than Bok Khorani National Park

Thailand

Than Bok Khorani is a national park in the north of the province of Krabi, in southern Thailand, and it consists of two…

79 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

Ao Phang Nga National Park

Thailand

Ao Phang Nga is the bay of limestone towers between Phuket and Krabi that Hollywood made famous as the setting for a…

73 tickets & tours

Doi Inthanon National Park

Thailand

Doi Inthanon is the highest mountain in Thailand and the most visited national park in the north, sixty kilometres from…

72 tickets & tours

Mount Merapi National Park

Indonesia

Merapi is the active volcano above Yogyakarta in central Java, and the way most people visit it is the jeep tour:…

71 tickets & tours

Cuc Phuong National Park

Vietnam

Cuc Phuong is Vietnam's oldest national park, two hours south of Hanoi and forty minutes from Ninh Binh, and it is…

64 tickets & tours

Wilpattu National Park

Sri Lanka

Wilpattu is Sri Lanka's largest and oldest national park and the quieter counterpart to Yala, on the north-west…

54 tickets & tours

The ranking orders the parks we mark as family-friendly by the number of tours on sale. We leave out high-altitude treks and parks with long, rough transfers.

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