By Mercy Gakii
Tripadvisor, in one of its coveted programs, Travellers' Choice Awards, celebrates travellers’ favorite hotels, restaurants, National parks, and airlines around the world annually.
The compilation is pulled together from millions of reviews, ratings, and experiences from travellers across the globe as Tripadvisor spotlights the best and announces the winners influenced by the consistency and quality of services. According to Travellers' Choice Awards, these are the best parks in the world:
Mt Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania / Courtesy
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Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is the best in the world, according to the latest Travellers’ Choice Awards. The vast plains, famed for among other things their wildlife and the wildebeest migration, won the hearts of travellers yearning for open spaces and freedom on the world’s most famed travel review website.
Caption: The Maasai Mara Park/courtesy
Kenya’s Maasai Mara Game Reserve came a strong third out of the 25 best parks in the world, after India’s Jim Corbett National Park.
This is a major win for Kenya after the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic left tourism on its knees in 2020. According to reports by Kenya’s hotel industry, the country lost over Sh150 billion last year alone as the tourism industry collapsed.
However, it is Tanzania that took the cake among travel enthusiasts as its three parks made it to the top 25 in the prestigious awards, endorsing the country as among the best places to visit as the world stayed locked down through 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Kilimanjaro National Park came in 12th position. The park is never short of tourists from around the world as travellers seek to conquer the roof of Africa.
Tarangire National Park also famed for elephants came at 14th place, cementing the nation as the park destination of choice for many voters in the online travel review site.
A lioness leads her cubs at Kruger National Park, South Africa / Courtesy
Only South Africa’s Kruger National Park made it among the African parks, coming in fifth in the highly competitive awards. Other parks from around the world were Grand Teton in Wyoming, USA, Arenal Volcano National Park in Costa Rica, Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA, Zion National Park in Utah, USA, Torres Del Paine in Chile, and Fiordland National Park in New Zealand making it among the top ten in the list.
Other nations whose parks made it are Portugal, United Kingdom, Jaipur in India, and Peru.
Mercy Gakii is a journalist with nearly 15 years’ experience reporting economy, small businesses, SMEs, gender, and general human-interest stories.
