Lusaka
A hodge podge of buildings, Lusaka is a typical African city with a bit of first world with its internet cafes, fancy glass bank buildings and new shopping malls alongside colonial buildings with wide tree lined streets. Market stalls manned by their owner entrepreneurs jostle between the solid buildings, offering any and all types of goods.
With little formal planning the city has grown organically and forms a vibrant crossways of roads leading north, west, east and south. Lusaka airport is 14km from the city centre and well serviced by taxis and buses or privately arranged vehicles. A range of hotels offer reasonable overnight accommodation including the Holiday Inn, Taj Pamodzi and Chaminuka – a private game reserve 45 minutes from the airport.
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Our Recommended Tours
Emerald Season Escape
$ 2200
South Luangwa National Park, Zambia - 4 nights/5 days
Save US$800pp! The lush, green grass has sprung all over the valley after the rains and during February/March visitors can enjoy the Emerald season or secret season. This is a time when there are few visitors but the animals frolic and play with their newborn young and food is plentiful. The air is crisp and clean and excellent for photography.
Zambia Explorer
$ 3360
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.
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.
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