Oct 01 2024
Torres del Paine National Park protects one of the most dramatic mountain landscapes in South America. Located in southern Chilean Patagonia, the park combines jagged granite towers, turquoise lakes, immense glaciers, windswept grasslands, Magellanic forest, fast-flowing rivers, waterfalls, and broad valleys beneath some of the most unpredictable weather on the continent. The park is named …
Oct 01 2024
Khao Sok National Park protects one of Thailand’s most dramatic tropical landscapes: dense evergreen rainforest wrapped around enormous limestone cliffs, misty valleys, jungle rivers, caves, waterfalls, and the emerald waters of Cheow Lan Lake. Located in Surat Thani Province in southern Thailand, the park covers roughly 739 square kilometers and forms part of a much …
Sep 27 2024
Banff National Park is a landscape of turquoise lakes, glacier-carved valleys, snow-covered mountains, evergreen forests, rushing rivers, and wildlife-filled meadows in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. Located in Alberta, it is Canada’s oldest national park and one of the most recognizable protected landscapes in the world. The park contains many of the scenes people …
Sep 25 2024
Serengeti National Park is one of the world’s great wildlife landscapes, an immense expanse of grasslands, acacia woodlands, rocky kopjes, seasonal rivers, and open horizons in northern Tanzania. It is best known as the heart of the Great Migration, when enormous herds of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles move through the wider Serengeti ecosystem in search …
Jan 27 2024
Manu National Park is one of the most biologically extraordinary protected areas on Earth. Stretching from the high Andes into the lowland Amazon of southeastern Peru, the park encompasses cloud forests, mountain grasslands, river valleys, wetlands, and vast expanses of tropical rainforest. Few protected areas contain such a dramatic range of elevations and habitats within …
Jan 04 2024
Kosciuszko National Park protects the highest mountains in Australia, sweeping alpine grasslands, glacial lakes, snow gum forests, limestone caves, rivers, historic mountain huts, and some of the country’s rarest wildlife. Covering about 690,000 hectares in southeastern New South Wales, it is the largest national park in the state and the centerpiece of Australia’s Snowy Mountains. …
