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 safari parks to visit worldwide
A safari park is one you visit from a vehicle. The animals decide the timetable: game drives leave at dawn and again in the late afternoon, because the hours between are hot and most animals lie up in the shade. What you book matters more here than anywhere else in the catalogue. A day trip from a coastal hotel or a city gives you a long drive and one midday circuit; a night inside the park or at its gate gives you the two drives that produce the sightings.
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
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
Kruger National Park
Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger is the one great African park you can visit on your own terms: a public road network, entrance fees paid at the…
174 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
Tsavo East National Park
Kenya
Tsavo East is the safari park of the Kenyan coast: two to three hours by road from Mombasa, Diani and the beaches…
126 tickets & tours
Nairobi National Park
Kenya
Nairobi National Park begins seven kilometres from the city centre, and it is the only place in the world where a game…
121 tickets & tours
Chobe National Park
Botswana
Chobe is the elephant park in the north of Botswana, and its riverfront at Kasane lies an hour and a half from Victoria…
87 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
Tsavo West National Park
Kenya
Tsavo West is the more scenic half of the Tsavo pair, and it is sold almost always in combination: three- to five-day…
68 tickets & tours
Addo Elephant National Park
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Addo is the easiest big-game park in South Africa to add to a Garden Route trip, forty minutes from Gqeberha, the city…
55 tickets & tours
Pilanesberg National Park
North West, South Africa
Pilanesberg is the Big Five park closest to Johannesburg and Pretoria, two and a half hours by road, malaria-free and…
54 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
Nyerere National Park
Tanzania
Nyerere is the southern safari that Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam send their visitors to, and the fly-in day trip is its…
43 tickets & tours
Akagera National Park
Rwanda
Akagera is Rwanda's only savanna park and its only Big Five destination, two and a half hours east of Kigali, and…
41 tickets & tours
Queen Elizabeth National Park
Uganda
Queen Elizabeth is Uganda's most visited savanna park, six to seven hours by road from Kampala or Entebbe, and it…
37 tickets & tours
Udawalawe National Park
Sri Lanka
Udawalawe is Sri Lanka's elephant park, four hours from Colombo and two from the south-coast beaches, and it is…
36 tickets & tours
Murchison Falls National Park
Uganda
Murchison Falls is Uganda's largest park and the one closest to Kampala for a proper savanna safari, about five…
35 tickets & tours
Kaudulla National Park
Sri Lanka
Kaudulla is the elephant park in Sri Lanka's cultural triangle, half an hour from Habarana and Sigiriya and an…
33 tickets & tours
Lake Mburo National Park
Uganda
Lake Mburo is the small savanna park on the Kampala–Mbarara road, about four hours from the capital, and its position…
31 tickets & tours
East Africa sells the classic: Serengeti, Tarangire and Arusha from Arusha town, Amboseli and the two Tsavos from Nairobi or the Kenyan coast. Kruger and the private reserves around it work on the South African model of self-drive roads and lodge-run open vehicles. In Sri Lanka, Yala, Udawalawe and Minneriya run half-day jeep safaris for leopards and elephants, and in India the tiger reserves, Ranthambore and Corbett first among them, sell numbered seats in canters and gypsies on fixed zones that sell out weeks ahead.
Each page says which gate the tours use, whether park fees are inside the quoted price, how many days the park deserves and which months the grass is short and the animals are at the water.