Victoria Falls National Park
Zimbabwe
Victoria Falls National Park is the small Zimbabwean park that holds the rainforest walkway along the lip of the gorge…
71 tickets & tours
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Best waterfall & lake parks to visit worldwide
These are parks built around falling or standing water: Iguazu seen from both the Argentine and the Brazilian bank, Victoria Falls from Zimbabwe and Zambia, the travertine lakes of Plitvice and Krka, the blue pools of Jiuzhaigou and the tiered cascades of Erawan. They are among the most visited parks anywhere, and the main skill is avoiding the crowd.
Phnom Kulen National Park
Cambodia
Phnom Kulen is the sacred mountain fifty kilometres north-east of Siem Reap, and it is visited as a day trip from the…
42 tickets & tours
Krka National Park
Croatia
Krka is the waterfall park behind Šibenik, an hour from Split and an hour and a half from Zadar, and the day trip from…
34 tickets & tours
Nikko National Park
Japan
Nikko is the mountain park two hours north of Tokyo whose shrines are a World Heritage Site and whose lakes and…
24 tickets & tours
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Croatia
Plitvice is the park of sixteen terraced lakes in the Croatian interior, two hours from Zagreb and three from Split or…
20 tickets & tours
Iguazú National Park
Argentina
Iguazú National Park is the Argentine side of the falls, twenty minutes from Puerto Iguazú, and it is entered with a…
11 tickets & tours
Iguaçu National Park
Brazil
Iguaçu National Park is the Brazilian side of the falls at Foz do Iguaçu, and its visit is one walk: the entrance…
9 tickets & tours
Litchfield National Park
Northern Territory, Australia
Litchfield is the waterfall park an hour and a half south of Darwin, by way of the small town of Batchelor, and…
7 tickets & tours
Tenorio Volcano National Park
Costa Rica
Tenorio Volcano National Park in northern Costa Rica is, for all practical purposes, one trail to one river, the Río…
6 tickets & tours
Erawan National Park
Thailand
Erawan is the waterfall park sixty-five kilometres north-west of the town of Kanchanaburi in western Thailand, three to…
5 tickets & tours
Ribeira dos Caldeirões Natural Park
Portugal
Ribeira dos Caldeirões is a small, green, landscaped valley with waterfalls and watermills in the parish of Achada, on…
5 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
La Paz Waterfall Gardens
Costa Rica
La Paz Waterfall Gardens is a privately owned nature park and wildlife refuge on the eastern slope of the Poás volcano,…
3 tickets & tours
Una National Park
Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Una is a river of astonishing emerald clarity in the north-western corner of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along the…
2 tickets & tours
Springbrook National Park
Queensland, Australia
Springbrook is a high, wet, forested plateau in the hinterland of the Gold Coast, in the south-east corner of…
1 ticket or tour
Canaima National Park
Venezuela
Canaima, in the south-east of Venezuela, is the park of the tepuis, the sheer-sided table mountains of the Guiana…
No online ticket
Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park
Brazil
The Chapada dos Veadeiros is a high plateau of waterfalls, canyons and crystal-clear rivers in the north of the state…
No online ticket
Mapleton Falls National Park
Queensland, Australia
Mapleton Falls is one of the smallest national parks in Queensland, a pocket of rainforest and eucalypt forest round a…
No online ticket
Timed tickets now ration entry at Plitvice and Jiuzhaigou, and the first slot of the day is the one to book. At the big falls the question is water level: Victoria Falls is a wall of spray in April and a row of separate streams in November, when the Devil’s Pool swim becomes possible; Iguazu is fullest in the southern summer. Swimming, once the point of Krka, is now banned at the main falls there and permitted at few of the others. Each page says which side or entrance to use, how long the boardwalk circuit takes, and what a day trip from the nearest city leaves time for.