Zambia Safaris - An Overview

Zambezi River below Victoria Falls - Zambia or Zimbabwe side

Rates 2012: Zambia side full day high season US$155 pp; Zimbabwe side full day high season US$130 pp including US$10 park fee.

A selection of white water rafting options in Victoria Falls starting from half day to 5 day trips. Multi-day trips are only available on the Zimbabwe side of the river.

No previous experience is required and you don't need to be a proficient swimmer. At the beginning and at the end of the half, one and 2.5 day raft trip, you will need to negotiate a steep path out of the gorge. The walk out is 750 vertical feet up a gradient of 1 in 3, and a person of average fitness can manage this in about 20 minutes.

Liuwa Plains - 4 night/5 day or 5 night/6 day

Seasoned Africa travelers have heard of these vast open grasslands in the far west of Zambia but very few have been there. In fact in 2000 only 50 visitors were registered entering the park.

Why go? The Liuwa Plains is an immense wilderness area, brimming with birds and home to huge numbers of animals. The landscape is completely flat and the skies vast - here you really are in the middle of wild, remote and isolated lands.

Kasanka National Park, Zambia - 4 days/3 nights

Price is quoted per person for the whole safari including return flights to and from Lusaka airport.

This event is one of Africa’s most amazing and unusual wildlife spectacles – never forgotten by those lucky enough to witness it. From around the end of October each year, many millions of straw-colored fruit bats congregate in the trees of the Mushitu swamp forest near the confluence of the Musola and Kasanka rivers in Kasanka National Park. At sunset they fly out across the forests, lit from behind by the fabulous glow of the dying sun.

South Luangwa National Park, Lusaka, Zambia - 9 days/8 nights

Excellent personal hosting and superb game viewing.

Eight nights in one of Zambia's finest wildlife sanctuaries which explores the unspoilt beauty and remote character of the South Luangwa National Park. This is an excellent area for walks which are taken at a slow pace. Game drives are in open four wheel drive vehicles with 3 tier seats for uninhibited viewing. Your final night is spent just outside Lusaka within convenient reach of the international airport.

Kafue National Park and Victoria Falls on the Zambian side - 7 days/6 nights

The itinerary includes 2 bush camps in the Kafue National Park giving a great look at the changing scenery on this amazing floodplain. After plenty of game viewing on the safari section its off to Victoria Falls staying in a luxury bush camp on the banks of the Zambezi river on the Zambian side of the Falls.

South Luangwa National Park, Zambia - 8 nights/9 days

Take a break from school with the family for a week in Zambia.

Travel between 11th Nov and 19th May 2012 and save US$1400pp! You get more for your money during the green season which falls conveniently over some half term school holidays, Christmas and Easter. Game drives are tailored with children in mind and the children will spend time learning how to become a game ranger for the day, tracking on foot and identify footprints and droppings. There is no age limit for the 7 night lodge stay. 

Zambezi river Namibia, Vic Falls and Zambia's lower Zambezi - 9 nights/10 days

Starting and ending in Lusaka or Livingstone Victoria Falls. The accommodation is in comfortable well-appointed lodges and although the emphasis is on fishing, game viewing activities are also included.  The price includes all transfers and flights, full board accommodation, park fees.

This 9 night itinerary takes in three areas on the mighty Zambezi River from the Upper Zambezi on the Namibian border to Victoria Falls, finishing on the Lower Zambezi. 

On this trip you'll fish for the Tiger fish, Yellow Belly Bream, Three Spot Bream and Kafue Pike on the upper Zambzi and you'll fish for Tiger Fish and the giant Vundu catfish. The Lower Zambezi is also home to Three Spot Bream, Red Breasted Bream, Nile Bream, Chessa, Nkupi, Bottlenose and the Cornish Jack.

Botswana, Namibia and Zambia - 16 days/15 nights

Set departure dates during rainy season - November to April

Highlights of this safari include visitng Lake Ngami birding wonderland, panhandle of the Okavango Delta, Caprivi Strip specials, Zambia and the Victoria Falls, the dramatic Chobe National Park, Makgadikgadi Pans, Moremi Game Reserve wildlife and birding on the fringes of the Okavango Delta, scenic flight over the Okavango and boat cruises on the Okavango and Chobe Rivers.

Kasanka National Park, Bangweulu Swamps and Lake Shiwa N'gandu, Zambia. 

Aspiring explorers will need to be quick to secure a place on a new escorted Zambia expedition with one of the country's leading guides. Our Zambian expedition is available on limited departure dates from April to July 2012 only with wildlife and birding expert Rod Tether. With a maximum of 6 guests, this exclusive, intimate trip takes in Kasanka National Park, Bangweulu Swamps and Lake Shiwa N'gandu, culminating in the South Luangwa National Park.

Victoria Falls, Chobe National Park and Moremi Reserve - 10 days/9 nights

Prolific wildlife and the magnificent Victoria Falls.

An excellent safari option which includes Victoria Falls for 3 nights to see the magnificent Zambezi River falling 108 metres to the gorge below; the best elephant herds in the world in Chobe National Park and Moremi Game Reserve, probably the most prolific game viewing spot in Southern Africa.

Save US$1717pp for travel between January to March and December 2012 and get an extra night free at Chobe National Park!

Victoria Falls Zambian side, Chobe NP and Savuti - 10 days/9 nights

Highly recommended for a once in a lifetime experience.

This excellent trip combines three of The Big Ones to visit and is highly recommended by us as one of our choice safaris. Victoria Falls is so well-known and combines very well with the huge elephant herds of Chobe National Park in Botswana. Combine this with the big game herds and predators found in the Savuti area rounding off an excellent safari.