Iona National Park

Namibe Province · Angola

Iona National Park, Angola
Photo: Alfred Weidinger from Vienna, Austria, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to September, avoiding the extreme summer heat
Accessibility
not-accessible
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Angola's largest park occupies the northern reaches of the Namib Desert, where gravel plains, dunes, and welwitschia plants meet a fog-bound Atlantic shore. Semi-nomadic Himba and Mucubal communities live within its boundaries, and oryx and springbok are returning under new management.

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