Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park

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Two white rhinos in Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, 2005

The Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park ( German  Thundering Smoke National Park ) is located in the south of Zambia on the border with Zimbabwe and also includes the Victoria Falls , which attract many visitors every year. He is since 1989 part of the UNESCO - World Heritage Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls .

It stretches along the upper reaches of the Zambezi from Victoria Falls to about twelve kilometers upstream. With around 66 km² the park is quite small, but offers good opportunities to observe wild animals such as antelopes, zebras, giraffes, elephants and rhinos.

You can explore the park in a few hours on a tour along the river, as a self-drive or in organized groups. Mosi-oa-Tunya is very well developed for vehicles, so that every tourist with a rental car can pass it. Many animal species were once largely extinct, so that there were neither rhinos nor big cats. They have now been resettled.

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Coordinates: 17 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  S , 25 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E