--- title: Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe: World's Greatest Places 2022 description: Find out why Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe is on TIME's list of the world's greatest places of 2022. canonical: https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2022/6194627/hwange-national-park-zimbabwe/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-07-12T11:06:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:04:30.636Z og:title: Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe: World's Greatest Places 2022 og:description: Find out why Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe is one of TIME's world's greatest places of 2022. og:url: https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2022/6194627/hwange-national-park-zimbabwe/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca6a3dbca46f91fb/698a339d22fb85abe7e2da97/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2022-HwangeNationalParkZimbabwe-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe: World's Greatest Places 2022 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe: World's Greatest Places 2022 twitter:description: Find out why Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe is one of TIME's world's greatest places of 2022. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca6a3dbca46f91fb/698a339d22fb85abe7e2da97/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2022-HwangeNationalParkZimbabwe-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jul 12, 2022 # Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe Conservation safari by Terry Ward  Elephants at a water hole in Hwange National Park. Elephants at a water hole in Hwange National Park.Steve Thomas—Panos Pictures/Redux [Zimbabwe](https://time.com/tag/zimbabwe/) is home to a landmark conservation project this year. In late May, the ­[Community Rhino Conservation Initiative](https://www.hwangecommunityrhino.com/) and [Imvelo Safari Lodges](https://www.imvelosafarilodges.com/) translocated two white rhinos to community lands bordering Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe’s largest, empowering the local community to protect a species that was eradicated from the park by poaching by the early 2000s. The project is the first and only instance in Zimbabwe of rhinos being translocated to community land, which was donated by the local population, who will also care for the animals. Visitors will be able to see the endangered white rhino up close, and meet the local teams protecting the animals. While in the area, tack on a visit to Victoria Falls, roughly 120 miles from Hwange Main Camp. [Eurowings Discover](https://www.eurowings.com/us/eurowings-discover/destinations.html) launched one of its first long-haul flights from Frankfurt to Victoria Falls in March (with a brief stopover in Namibia). And after $6 million in renovations, the 16-suite [Stanley & Livingstone Boutique Hotel](https://www.more.co.za/stanleyandlivingstone/) has emerged better than ever, less than 15 miles south of the falls in a private game reserve where you can spot black rhino. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2022/6194627/hwange-national-park-zimbabwe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2022/6194627/hwange-national-park-zimbabwe/"},"headline":"Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe","datePublished":"2022-07-12T11:06:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:04:30.636Z","description":"Conservation safari","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2022/6194627/hwange-national-park-zimbabwe/","keywords":["franchise","Magazine","World's Greatest Places"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca6a3dbca46f91fb/698a339d22fb85abe7e2da97/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2022-HwangeNationalParkZimbabwe-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca6a3dbca46f91fb/698a339d22fb85abe7e2da97/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2022-HwangeNationalParkZimbabwe-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2022/6194627/hwange-national-park-zimbabwe/","name":"Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe"}}]}] ```