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.
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.
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.
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 part of a tailor-made route.
“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 […]
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.
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.
