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Lower Zambezi National Park: River, Escarpment and a Wilderness Worth Fighting For
A president’s private reserve, a river shared with Zimbabwe and a long fight over a copper mine in the hills. Here is the story behind Zambia’s Lower Zambezi National Park, plus photos from our latest trip. Read more …
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Unfiltered: Recent Zambia Safari Photos
A handful of recent Zambia safari photos, shared without the story behind them: a Zambezi sunset, two elephants sizing each other up, a pair of baboons holding court on a termite mound and a lioness who couldn’t be bothered. Just the bush as we saw it. Read more …
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Bangweulu Wetlands: History, People & Wildlife
Bangweulu Wetlands is Zambia’s community-owned wilderness, a vast floodplain where the water meets the sky. Here is its story, from Livingstone’s last journey to the fishermen who now guard the shoebill’s nests. It is also home to the endemic Bangweulu lechwe, and cheetahs returned here after almost a century. Read more …
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Kafue National Park: Zambia’s Great Wilderness
Kafue National Park is Zambia’s oldest and largest park, about the size of Wales, yet most visitors skip it. Here is how it began as a game reserve in the early 1920s, why poor soils and the tsetse fly kept it wild, and why it holds more antelope species than any other park in Africa. Read more …
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Liuwa Plain: The Litunga’s Hunting Ground, People & Cattle
Liuwa Plain was protected by a Lozi king in the 1880s, long before Zambia made it a national park. Today more than 10,000 people and their cattle still live inside it. This is the story of the Litunga’s hunting ground, why the Lozi never left, and why that is the reason Liuwa survived. Read more …
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Zambia Camping Safaris 2027 – 20 Years of Zamsato
Zambia tented safari 2027: all departure dates for our Sable, Zebra and Wildebeest safaris through Kafue and Liuwa Plain, what a day in camp is really like, and who these trips suit. Pick your date and send us a message – a request is free and commits you to nothing. Book by 31 January for our 20th-anniversary offer. Read more …
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Zambia National Parks Map: Where Our Safaris Go
Zambia has 20 national parks, 36 game management areas and 42 Important Bird Areas, spread across the whole country, yet most visitors only ever hear about two or three of them. This map shows the main parks, from Liuwa Plain in the far west to Nsumbu on Lake Tanganyika. Hover over a park, or tap it on your phone, to see which of our safaris go there. Parks without a scheduled trip can still be… Read more …
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Zambia Safari Calendar
“When is the best time to come?” It’s the question we hear more than any other. The honest answer: it depends on what you want to see. Zambia’s year runs on water. The rains fill the rivers and floodplains, the dry season drains them again, and almost every highlight in this country is tied to where the water is at a given moment. We have been running safaris out of Livingstone since 2007. This is… Read more …
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South Luangwa: Where the Traverse Ends and the Wildlife Delivers
Five nights riverfront at Croc Valley Camp close out the Luangwa Valley traverse with the best wildlife of the whole trip — leopard, lion, and wild dogs — in the park that invented the walking safari. Read more …
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Luambe: The Complicated One
Not every stop on a Luangwa Valley traverse is about wildlife sightings. Luambe is the one where the pressure on that wildlife becomes impossible to ignore — buffalo pushed out of the park, and lions sheltering in the village next door. Read more …
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North Luangwa: The Wild One
Day four of a Luangwa Valley traverse runs south through Chama’s remote villages into North Luangwa — a park so untouched we were the first vehicle on some loops this year. Read more …
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A Castle in the Bush: Zambia’s Dilapidated Colonial Curiosity
Day three of a Luangwa Valley traverse trades wildlife for farmland, a punishing stretch of clay road, and a night in a genuinely strange piece of Zambian history — a dilapidated colonial-era castle that’s not for the faint-hearted. Read more …
