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
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Best national parks to visit in Asia
Asia's parks cover the greatest range of any continent: the summit of Everest and the mangroves of the Sundarbans, tiger reserves on the Indian plains and coral islands in the Andaman Sea, Japanese volcanoes ringed with hot-spring towns and Central Asian canyons hours from the nearest village. How you visit differs as much. India and Sri Lanka sell jeep safaris on fixed zones and timed sessions; Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia sell day trips by boat or van from the beach resorts and the capitals; Nepal sells treks.
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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
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
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
Langtang National Park
Nepal
Langtang is the Himalayan park closest to Kathmandu, a day's drive north to the trailhead at Syabrubesi, and it is…
55 tickets & tours
Rankings for Asia
Seasons matter more here than anywhere. The monsoon closes most Indian parks from July to September, shuts the Similan and Surin islands from May to October and hides the Himalaya in cloud, while Japan's alpine parks are open for barely four months. Each country page explains its own calendar.