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.