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.
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.
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.
“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 […]
??Capture life from a different lens! Join us from Lusaka to breathtaking national parks in Western Zambia on our 14-Day Zebra Safari. Kick off is on 09/11/2024 with a pre-night on 08/11/2024 in Lusaka! Don’t miss out to discover the […]
Today, we go birding by the sewage ponds in Livingstone. It’s Sunday morning, cold season approaching fast. Not so easy to leave the blankets. A quick coffee, binoculars, camera and bird book and off we go. We head to the […]
In the wildlife rich south-western corner of Lake Itezhi-Tezhi in Kafue National Park a new camp has recently opened: Nanzhila’s Lake Camp. 3 chalets overlooking the confluence of the Musa River and Lake Itezhi-Tezhi. Neatly tagged away between large Jackalberry […]
