parks.africa

Eighteen independent guides to Africa's national parks

One site per park, written for people organising their own trip. No bookings and no commission from camps, just what the gate charges, what the road is like, and every place to stay with what it costs.

18PARKS
8COUNTRIES
363LODGES AND CAMPSITES
29PARKS IN THE FEE INDEX

Tanzania 5

Katavi7 places to stay Tanzania's third-largest national park counted 1,338 international visitors in all of 2024 visitkatavi.com → Mahale Mountains5 places to stay Forested mountains rise straight out of Lake Tanganyika, and in the forest lives the most-studied wild chimpan visitmahale.com → Nyerere18 places to stay Nearly 31,000 square kilometres along the Rufiji River, carved out of the old Selous Game Reserve visitnyerere.com → Ruaha18 places to stay Twenty thousand square kilometres of baobab hills and lion country, with a fraction of the safari traffic of t visitruaha.com → Udzungwa Mountains7 places to stay There is not a single road inside Udzungwa Mountains National Park udzungwanationalpark.com →

Zambia 3

Kafue27 places to stay Zambia's largest and oldest national park covers 22,400 square kilometres, holds 21 antelope species, the coun visitkafue.com → Lower Zambezi27 places to stay One hundred and twenty kilometres of the Zambezi River with a 1,200 metre escarpment behind it and Zimbabwe's visitlowerzambezi.com → South Luangwa31 places to stay Norman Carr took the first guests out on foot here in the 1950s, and the tradition never stopped southluangwapark.com →

Zimbabwe 3

Gonarezhou14 places to stay Red sandstone cliffs above the Runde River, around eleven thousand elephants, and a camp network built for sel visitgonarezhou.com → Hwange32 places to stay Zimbabwe's largest park has no rivers at all visithwange.com → Mana Pools21 places to stay On the floodplain of the Lower Zambezi, Mana Pools is one of the very few national parks in Africa where you m visitmanapools.com →

Malawi 2

Liwonde10 places to stay A small park with a big river through it liwondenationalpark.com → Nyika5 places to stay Malawi's largest park is nothing like the rest of Africa: rolling montane grassland higher than most alpine pa nyikanationalpark.com →

Uganda 2

Kidepo Valley10 places to stay Tucked between South Sudan and Kenya in Uganda's far north-east, Kidepo Valley is the country's least visited visitkidepo.com → Murchison Falls20 places to stay The Victoria Nile crosses 3,840 square kilometres of northern Uganda, then forces its entire volume through a visitmurchisonfalls.com →

Botswana 1

Moremi35 places to stay The Okavango floods in the dry season, not the wet: rain that fell in Angola months earlier arrives in June, j moremipark.com →

Kenya 1

Tsavos37 places to stay Twenty-two thousand square kilometres either side of the Nairobi to Mombasa highway, holding around forty per tsavokenya.com →

South Africa 1

Sabi Sand39 places to stay Around 65,000 hectares of private land on Kruger's western edge, with no fence between the two since 1993 visitsabisands.com →

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Who is behind this

Mitchel Wubben. I spent a year and a half overlanding through Southern and East Africa and kept running into the same thing: the information you need to actually reach a park was wrong or years out of date. So I started building a guide for each one.

Every figure on these sites comes from the park authority's own tariff, the operator's own rate sheet, or a source we name and date. Where we could not verify something, the page says so. Where a link earns us a referral fee, the page says that too.

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