Zambia
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For an unusual, little-visited destination with an abundance of wildlife, Zambia provides a more ‘raw’ African experience. The South Luangwa National Park has made its mark for providing excellent guided walking safaris, allowing a very intimate experience with a huge variety of game. Kafue National Park is home to big game including lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, buffalo and hippo as well as almost 500 recorded bird species, making game viewing extremely rewarding. The lodges are excellent, and provide a very 'real' bush experience. The abundance of wildlife, excellent knowledge of the guides and relatively unexplored nature of Zambia makes for an exciting, raw African experience. A boat safari on the Lower Zambezi is a great way to relax and provide contrast to a walking safari ... and then of course there's the Victoria Falls, with adrenaline-boosting - or not- activities on offer.
Top Tips
• Take a bush walking safari with some of Africa’s best trained guides. As well as spotting big game, you will have an education in insects and smaller mammals.
• This is true wilderness: elephants may trundle past your permanent en suite tent at night, you may awake to find hippo sleeping a stone’s throw away from your balcony. Expect an up close experience with wildlife.
• One of the best places to see leopard is in the South Luangwa National Park. Lodges here may offer a visit to a local village school, mountain biking in the Park and even a micro-light flight over the wilderness.
• Experience a bush dinner – tables and chairs will be set up, fine food and wine served – in the midst of the African bush. Watch as wildlife drinks from a nearby waterhole and take in the expanse of the galaxy at night.
• Take a scenic flight over the magnificent Victoria Falls. Go whitewater rafting, take a sunset cruise on the river and stay at one of the area’s luxury lodges overlooking the riverfront.
See our General Information Guide for details on how to get there, visas, when to go, etc.