Kafue National Park

Deep in Zambia, on the banks of the Kafue River, there is a game park of over a million acres. The second largest park in the world. A place where hippos rule the waters, lions the land and the fish eagles the sky. This is the Kafue National Park..

The Kafue National Park is one of the oldest, largest, wildest national parks in the world!. It was created in 1950 and is a sprawling 22,400 km². The park is about the size of Wales in Britain and twice the size of Yellowstone National Park in the USA.

Despite the park’s proximity to both Lusaka and the Copperbelt, it has remained underdeveloped until recent years, which makes it a magical place to visit. The park boasts excellent game viewing, bird watching and fishing. The Kafue National Park has the largest variety of mammals of all the parks in Zambia, and more than 400 bird species have been recorded.

Owing to its size, the park encompasses a large variety of landscapes, which caters for a full menu of grazers including antelopes, zebra and buffalo, which in turn attract their predators; lion, leopard, hyena, cheetah and wild dog. Elephants are found throughout the park as are hippos and crocodiles in the Kafue River and its tributaries.

Victoria Falls

The Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya (“the smoke that thunders in the language of the local Kololo tribe”) is one of the seven natural wonders of the world – and not to be missed when visiting Zambia!

While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, it is claimed to be the largest. This is based on a width of 1,708 metres (5,600 ft) and height of 108 meters (360 ft), forming the largest sheet of falling water in the world.

The falls are formed as the full width of the Zambezi River plummets in a single vertical drop into a transverse gorge carved by its waters along a fracture zone in the basalt plateau. The Victoria Falls are a spectacular sight of awe-inspiring beauty and grandeur. Columns of spray can be seen from miles away as 546 million cubic meters of water per minute crash over the edge (at the height of the flood season). The wide basalt cliff, over which the falls rumble like thunder, transforms the Zambezi from a wide placid river to a ferocious torrent cutting through a series of dramatic gorges.

Lake Bangweulu

In Northern Zambia lies a large lake with water so blue and beaches so white that one could mistake it for the sea! Here, at Lake Bangweulu, Amazing Zambia has transformed a piece of paradise into a haven for relaxation at the end of a visit to Zambia. Bangweulu means "where the water meets the sky" in the local language.

Bangweulu is one of the world’s great wetland systems, comprising Lake Bangweulu, the Bangweulu Swamps and the Bangweulu Flats or floodplain. It is a breathtakingly beautiful place to visit.

The lake is exploited more as a fish source than for its tourist potential. In fact the fisheries of the Bangweulu are one of the largest in Zambia. This has lead to some of the highest population densities around the lake. But the area is so incredibly vast it is largely left to the multitudes of wildlife that dwell of the rich resources. The Bangweulu is renowned for its vast population of endemic black Lechwe antelope that occur in herds of up to several thousands, but it is also a very good place to see the curious Shoebill stork, one of the most sought after African birds.

The Bangweulu system is fed by about 17 principle rivers of which the Chambishi (the source of the Congo River) is the largest, but is drained by only one river, the Luapula. With a long axis of 75 km and a width of up to 40 km, Lake Bangweulu's permanent open water surface is about 3,000 km², which expands when its swamps and floodplains are in flood during the wet season between November and March. The flooded area reaches 15,000 km².