The one Kenyan park you can explore by bike, pedalling past zebra and giraffe to the red cliffs and gorge that inspired The Lion King.
Bosnia’s oldest park: Maglic, the country’s highest peak, and Perucica, one of Europe’s last primeval forests.
Karst islets, mangrove channels and Taino cave art.
Bogs, manors and rugged coastline.
Cameroon's premier savanna wildlife park.
West Africa’s best big-game park — lions, elephants and cheetahs.
Rainforest canopy rope walkway.
Djibouti’s only forest, a relic juniper woodland on the Goda mountains with the endemic Djibouti francolin.
The Caribbean’s highest peak at 3,098 m, a two-day trek with mules through pine forest to a summit above the clouds.
A "mini Grand Canyon" of red rock.
Tepuis and waterfalls, UNESCO-listed.
Pristine rainforest canopy walkway.
Saharan plateau of prehistoric rock art.
A million wildebeest and zebra on the move — Africa’s greatest spectacle.
Flat-topped mountain over Cape Town.
Shifting Sahara-like dunes on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast.
Soda lake of flamingos and tree-climbing lions at the Rift Valley wall.
The rocky headland where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet, with baboons, ostriches and the Cape Point lighthouse.
Caribbean archipelago of coral cays.
Elephant herds among giant baobabs along the Tarangire river.
Vast mangrove delta, home of the Bengal tiger.
Trails and tunnels along a marble canyon so narrow the cliffs nearly touch, with the Eternal Spring Shrine over a waterfall.
Jungle safaris for one-horned rhinos and, with luck, a Bengal tiger.
Coastal park with elephants near Luanda.
South Africa's flagship Big Five park.
Jagged peaks and gelada baboons.
Roam Huascarán National Park, the highest tropical mountain range on Earth — 660 glaciers under Peru's tallest peak
Six sapphire lakes held by natural travertine dams in the Hindu Kush — Afghanistan’s first national park.
Paddle 8 km into a limestone cave where a river flows straight out to the sea — one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature.
Gorge trails on ladders, chains and walkways over waterfalls.
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