Nkasa Rupara

Highlights

The area is one of the small national parks in Namibia and is situated in the Zambezi region in the southernmost section of the Caprivi Strip, close to Mudumu National Park. It is considered an adventurous, unexplored destination. The density of wildlife is rather low, but there is a good variety of indigenous and migratory species. The swampy environment of the park makes it inaccessible during the rainy season.

Landscape

The main habitat of the Nkasa Rupara is the Swamp.

The park is mainly a swamp area between the Kwando and Linyanti rivers. There are several overgrown channels that criss-cross the marshland. When flooded, it becomes Namibia's version of the Okavango Delta in Botswana - an inaccessible paradise of islands and reed-fringed waterways. The national park is Namibia's largest wetland.

Entrance gate