Zambia · 2 PLACES TO EXPLORE

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Lower Zambezi National Park

Lower Zambezi National Park is one of Zambia's great river safaris: a large, unspoilt preserve where the Zambezi runs wide through a green floodplain and elephants come down to the water's edge. Set in Lusaka Province some 120 km southeast of the capital, the park protects roughly 4,092 square kilometres of channels, islands, palm-dotted banks and woodland, with a rolling escarpment rising behind the valley. It was gazetted in 1983 and still feels wonderfully undeveloped. What makes it special is the mix of land and water. This is one of the few places in southern Africa where you can combine a classic game drive with a canoe drifting through quiet channels and a motorboat safari along the riverbank, all in a day. Opposite, on the far side of the Zambezi, lies Zimbabwe's famous Mana Pools National Park, so the river binds together one vast transfrontier wildlife sanctuary. The birdlife is outstanding, the herds of elephant can run to a hundred strong, and the silence of the valley at dusk is part of the magic.

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Lusenga Plain National Park

Lusenga Plain National Park is one of Zambia's most remote and least-visited protected areas — a vast plateau wilderness of miombo woodland, open grassland, and riverine forest in Luapula Province, roughly 700 km north of Lusaka. Established in 1972, the park covers about 800 square kilometres along the western bank of the Kalungwishi River, south-east of Lake Mweru. The park's namesake feature is a striking oval plain — a grassland and wetland basin ringed by concentric wooded ridges that give it the look of a giant crater. The result of an ancient volcanic dome eroded over millennia, the plain sits at roughly 1,200 metres elevation and receives 1,500 mm of rain annually, feeding a network of streams and swampy dambos that radiate outward toward the Kalungwishi River to the east and the Luapula River to the west. Lusenga Plain is best known today for its extraordinary birdlife and its status as a genuine frontier for adventurous travellers. The park is part of the Mweru–Tanganyika ecoregion and a Key Biodiversity Area of international significance. Recent conservation investment is rebuilding wildlife populations after decades of poaching and neglect, making this one of Zambia's most promising — and still raw — wilderness experiences.

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Zambia · 2 PLACES TO EXPLORE

A little more
of Zambia.

Find places to visit in Zambia. See what catches your eye, then save a few favorites for your trip.

National park

Zambia · ZM

Lower Zambezi National Park

Lower Zambezi National Park is one of Zambia's great river safaris: a large, unspoilt preserve where the Zambezi runs wide through a green floodplain and elephants come down to the water's edge. Set in Lusaka Province some 120 km southeast of the capital, the park protects roughly 4,092 square kilometres of channels, islands, palm-dotted banks and woodland, with a rolling escarpment rising behind the valley. It was gazetted in 1983 and still feels wonderfully undeveloped. What makes it special is the mix of land and water. This is one of the few places in southern Africa where you can combine a classic game drive with a canoe drifting through quiet channels and a motorboat safari along the riverbank, all in a day. Opposite, on the far side of the Zambezi, lies Zimbabwe's famous Mana Pools National Park, so the river binds together one vast transfrontier wildlife sanctuary. The birdlife is outstanding, the herds of elephant can run to a hundred strong, and the silence of the valley at dusk is part of the magic.

Park

Zambia · ZM

Lusenga Plain National Park

Lusenga Plain National Park is one of Zambia's most remote and least-visited protected areas — a vast plateau wilderness of miombo woodland, open grassland, and riverine forest in Luapula Province, roughly 700 km north of Lusaka. Established in 1972, the park covers about 800 square kilometres along the western bank of the Kalungwishi River, south-east of Lake Mweru. The park's namesake feature is a striking oval plain — a grassland and wetland basin ringed by concentric wooded ridges that give it the look of a giant crater. The result of an ancient volcanic dome eroded over millennia, the plain sits at roughly 1,200 metres elevation and receives 1,500 mm of rain annually, feeding a network of streams and swampy dambos that radiate outward toward the Kalungwishi River to the east and the Luapula River to the west. Lusenga Plain is best known today for its extraordinary birdlife and its status as a genuine frontier for adventurous travellers. The park is part of the Mweru–Tanganyika ecoregion and a Key Biodiversity Area of international significance. Recent conservation investment is rebuilding wildlife populations after decades of poaching and neglect, making this one of Zambia's most promising — and still raw — wilderness experiences.