POM International

In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, visitors can spy the Big Five (elephant, rhinoceros, lion, leopard, and African buffalo).

Varirata National Park in Papua New Guinea boasts a wide variety of spectacular and rare bird species, like the Raggiana bird-of-paradise.

Though many people around the globe are familiar with Mount Everest, few know the name of the park that protects it.

Greenland’s only national park is also the world’s largest (for context, it is 100 times larger than America’s Yellowstone National Park).