Travel Guide Nkasa Rupara National Park

Mamili Park was officially declared a national park, along with Mudumu, in 1990. In 2012, the Namibian government renamed the area Nkasa Rupara National Park, also known as Nkasa Lupala, in reference to the Nkasa and Rupara islands on the Kwando/Linyanti rivers, which are present in the park's territory. It is the largest formally protected wetland in Namibia. This unfenced park forms a transboundary corridor for wildlife migration between Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Zambia. Nkasa Rupara National Park is part of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, which also includes Bwabwata, Mudumu, Khaudum and Mangetti National Parks in Namibia. Still uninhabited and very wild, one encounters few humans in this swampy and inhospitable savannah of 350 km2, impenetrable in the rainy season and dry the rest of the year. Elephants, hippos, buffaloes, antelopes, and many others share the dense vegetation and tall grass. The many trunks that appear to float on the branches of the Linyanti River have jaws! This part of the Zambezi is also home to majestic birds: wattled crane, Senegal jabiru, black-bellied bustard... From the Okavango Delta to Botswana, wild animals roam freely.