Kafue National Park
Kafue National Park Highlights
Kafue National Park is the oldest and largest National Park in Zambia and the second largest National Park in the world. Kafue National Park covers an area of approximately 22 400 square kilometers of unspoiled wilderness teeming with wildlife. Kafue National Park if renowned for offering fantastic wildlife viewing as well as incredible bird-life; over 400 bird species have been recorded in the park. Despite the Park's proximity to both Lusaka and the Copper belt, it has remained underdeveloped until recent years. The Kafue National Park is still untouched, wild and diverse and offers visitors one of the best safari experiences in Zambia. Guests can enjoy a variety of activities accompanied by expert guides including game drives, bird watching and fishing.
Kafue National Park Game Viewing
Kafue National Park in Zambia offers incredible birdlife and offers many species that do not occur elsewhere in Southern Africa. The Kafue National Park and the Busanga Plains in particular is characterized by diverse habitats with floodplains, miombo woodland and open grassy areas known as dambos creating a paradise for wildlife and birdlife. The Chaplin's Barbet is endemic to Zambia and occurs in the Kafue basin; however the excitement is in the diversity and abundance of finding over 400 recorded species as well as large concentrations of Wattled Crane. Mammals in the Kafue National Park are equally diverse, with frequent sightings of lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, cheetah, hippo as well as an abundance of plains game including zebra and wildebeest. A number of other species not that frequently seen include the puku antelope, Defassa waterbuck, Lichtenstein's hartebeest, oribi and roan antelope. The Kafue National Park in Zambia is seasonal, and traditionally only accessible from May to October, during the dry season.
Busanga Bush Camp
Busanga Bush Camp is situated in the heart of the Busanga Plains in Kafue National Park with magnificent views of herds of puku and lechwe grazing in front of the camp. Dawn and dusk across the plains at Busanga Bush Camp is simply breathtaking and guests can watch the day unfold over this pristine wilderness mosaic. Busanga Bush Camp is a small and intimate tented camp and the emphasis here is on offering guests a traditional safari experience in an area untouched by human development. Close encounters with wildlife and incredible birding will form part of the Busanga Bush Camp experience. Kafue National Park is home to 491 bird species, including endemics such as Chaplin's Barbet. Another highlight at Busanga Bush Camp is the lion prides, up to 20 strong can be seen and the resident herd of roan antelope is magnificent.
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Hippo Lodge
Hippo Lodge offers a traditional bush experience with no electricity in a remote corner of the Kafue National Park in Zambia. The area promises an exclusive wildlife experience in one of Africa's largest game parks offering superb game viewing and spectacular views over the Kafue River. Hippo Lodge is small and offers rustic luxury with comfortable facilities in chalets as well as traditional safari tents with en-suite facilities. Traditional bush cuisine is served in an open dining room overlooking the river. The pool and bar area offers a cool retreat on hot days. Kafue is known for offering fantastic bird watching as well as good fishing opportunities and thrilling wildlife activities including game viewing by vehicle, on foot or by boat accompanied by expert guides.
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Kafue Horse Safaris
Kafue Horse Safaris truly offers guests a unique and exciting opportunity to explore one of the most magnificent parks in Africa and enjoy incredible game viewing on horse-back. This experience in the remote and wild corner of the Kafue National Park in Zambia is not for the faint-hearted, the riding is challenging, with dangerous animals roaming freely and all riders will have to pass an assessment before taking part in the safari. Kafue Horse Safari Lodge offers stylish tented accommodation with en-suite facilities and delicious hearty bush cuisine. The guiding is an experience in itself; the horses incredible and the wildlife viewing simply magnificent, an experience bound to be life-changing.
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Kaingu Safari Lodge
Kaingu Safari Lodge offers a superb safari experience with fantastic wildlife viewing opportunities in the heart of the African bush. The park and area is known for offering good fishing, bird watching and of course game viewing. Kaingu Safari Lodge is an owner run lodge and promises a personal and private safari experience situated on one of Africa's most magnificent rivers, the Kafue River. The lodge offers luxurious East African-style safari tents in a peaceful setting. The emphasis at Kaingu is on walking safaris and offers a great river experience including river cruises and sundowner walks. All game activities are accompanied by professional and experienced guides.
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Kapinga Camp
Kapinga Camp is a small luxury tented camp located in the beautiful Busanga Plains in Kafue National Park in Zambia. Kapinga promises guests a personalized safari experience and caters for a maximum of only 8 guests in 4 spacious and luxurious safari tents. The main area of Kapinga Camp consists of a lounge, dining area, camp fire and small pool situated underneath a shady tree. Activities include day game drives, night game drives as well as guided walking safaris offering guests the opportunity to experience close encounters with wildlife. A highlight at Kapinga Camp is the birdlife with almost 500 recorded species in the Kafue National Park. The Plains hosts good concentrations of Wattled and Grey Crowned Cranes as well as Rosy-throated and Fülleborn's Longclaws and Locust Finch. The abundance of plains game is a big attraction for predators, including wild dog, cheetah and prides of lion.
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Leopard Lodge
Leopard Lodge offers a unique location in the Kafue National Park in Zambia. Zambia offers some of the wildest and most remote game areas on the continent; the Lodge is a small and intimate and offers a tranquil setting on the banks of the Kafue River. The service is superb and this family-run lodge offers delicious meals and exciting game viewing activities. The lodge offers only 5 thatched chalets ensuring a private safari experience with exciting fishing on the Kafue River including species like bream, barbel and fresh water pike; night game drives are another highlight. Other activities include boat cruises, bird watching and game viewing on foot or by vehicle. The best game viewing is during the dry season from April to October.
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Lufupa River Camp
Lufupa River Camp offers a magnificent setting in the Kafue National Park and overlooks the Kafue River. Visitors to Lufupa River Camp can explore the clear flowing waterways and enjoy many wildlife and birding encounters. Lufupa River Camp offers some of the best game viewing in Africa. Apart from the abundant general game at Lufupa, the area is also renowned for its leopard viewing and elephant and lion sightings are frequent. Lufupa River Camp offers nine comfortable en-suite tents including family rooms on the banks of the Kafue River. Lufupa River Camp is offered on a bed-and-breakfast basis and guests can enjoy meals in the friendly and lively Kafue River Café with a bar and restaurant; a la carte meals and drinks are served during the day as well as early evening to guests of Lufupa River Camp and the nearby campsite.
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Lufupa Tented Camp
Lufupa Tented Camp offers visitors an intimate and personal safari experience. Lufupa Tented Camp provides a spectacular setting in the Kafue National Park overlooking the Kafue River in an unspoiled and remote corner of Zambia. Lufupa Tented Camp consists of nine en-suite Meru-style tents each offering a wooden deck providing breathtaking river views. The main area at Lufupa Tented Camp consists of a central area, complete with a boma, fireplace, dining area and small plunge pool situated on the edge of the broad Kafue River. The wildlife in the Kafue National Park is fantastic with lion present and a wide variety of plains game frequently seen such as zebra, buffalo, greater kudu and impala, as well as the less-seen species of roan, sable antelope and Lichtenstein's hartebeest. Lufupa is renowned for good leopard sightings and the bird-watching is world-class; elephant are also frequently seen in the area.
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Lunga River Lodge
Lunga River Lodge offers a unique river experience in a unique setting on the banks of the Lunga River in the Kafue National Park in Zambia. The area around Lunga River Lodge is quiet and remote and ideal for guests looking for a peaceful however adventurous safari experience. The Lunga River is unique and offers a completely different atmosphere to many other major river systems within Zambia and south-central Africa. Lunga River Lodge offers six spacious thatched rooms with en-suite shower and bathroom facilities as well as private viewing decks offering spectacular views. The main area consists of a bar with sundeck suspended over the river, a 'termite mound-top' dining area, reading room and boma-enclosed pool. The emphasis at Lunga River Lodge is on offering guests a river experience and guests can enjoy guided activities including boating, bush walks as well as game drives exploring the Kafue National Park, fringing woodlands and dambos, open, grassy areas.
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Mayukuyuku Camp
Mayukuyuku Camp offers classic tented accommodation in a remote area in the Kafue National Park in Zambia; one of the finest wildlife parks in Africa. The Kafue National Park offers fantastic bird watching with over 400 species of birds in the park. Accommodation consists of 3 luxury en-suite tents with magnificent views of the Kafue River and surrounding area. Other facilities at the camp include a bar and a curio shop. Guests can choose between an all-inclusive option a full board option or a self-catering option which provides barbecue facilities. Activities include game viewing in open safari vehicles, morning as well as late afternoon and night game drives can be booked. Two to three hour walking safaris with a guide and armed scout can be arranged as well as game viewing and fishing by boat.
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McBrides Camp
McBrides' Camp has been rated by many guests and photographers as one of the best African wilderness experiences on the planet. This remote, wild and untouched corner of the Kafue National Park in Zambia promises to offer a unique and personal safari experience with extraordinary wildlife viewing, delicious bush meals and warm hospitality and with only 7 chalets the safari experience is bound to be private and personal. The emphasis here is on walking and walking safaris accompanied by expert guides however other activities available include day and night game drives, game viewing by boat, fishing as well as birding trips.
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Mukambi Safari Lodge
Mukambi Safari Lodge is a family-friendly lodge offering a superb location on the banks of the Kafue River in Zambia. Guests can enjoy fantastic game viewing from the comfort of the lodge and the large viewing decks are a highlight here. Guests can choose between luxurious chalets, family villas or traditional safari tents with no electricity offering a more rustic experience with shared ablution facilities. The central area of the lodge consists of a bar, lounge and dining area where delicious African cuisine is served. The lodge also has a pool. A variety of activities are available and guests can explore the Kafue National Park on game drives, by boat or on foot.
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Musungwa Lodge
Musungwa Lodge is a comfortable lodge with basic facilities offering a beautiful setting on the shores of Lake Itezhi-Tezhi. The views from the lodge are spectacular over the lake and the lodge is accessible year round from Lusaka or Livingstone. Spacious Rondavels are available with en-suite showers and private verandas. The lodge also has a swimming pool offering beautiful views of the lake set in a peaceful garden. Other facilities include a tennis court, a squash court and a sauna. Activities available at Musungwa include boat cruises on the lake and day and night game drives inside Kafue National Park. The best game viewing is during the dry season from April to October.
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Nanzhila Plains Safari Camp
Nanzhila Plains Safari Camp offers a peaceful location in a remote and private corner of the Kafue National Park in Zambia. The area is best known for its vast open spaces, incredible birdlife and beautiful plains. Guests staying at Nanzhila Plains can expect to see fantastic wildlife viewing including a variety of antelope species including Roan and Sable, Reedbuck, Defassa Waterbuck, Oribi, Hartebeest and Eland as well as all the major carnivores, especially Wild Dog and Cheetah. The birdlife is superb year round and guests can enjoy a traditional safari experience in tented accommodation or camping is available for the more adventurous guests.
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Puku Pan Safari Lodge
Puku Pan Safari Lodge blends in with the magnificent and peaceful surroundings it is situated in. Accommodation is private and remote shaded by the indigenous trees that line the bank of the Kafue River. The wildlife viewing, birding and fishing opportunities in this part of the Kafue National Park is superb; a park known to offer some of the best game viewing in Zambia if not the entire Africa. Guests can enjoy a peaceful yet exciting safari experience at Puku Pan with high quality guiding, delicious meals and thrilling game viewing activities including game drives, bush walks as well as game viewing by boat on the Kafue River accompanied by expert guides.
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Shumba Camp
Shumba Camp offers the ideal location in the remote Kafue National Park in Zambia to benefit from the plains game and predator concentrations of the Busanga Plains; guests will be able to experience close encounters with wildlife, as the camp is within close proximity to permanent water and having easy access to a mix of seasonal and permanent floodplains unique to Kafue National Park. Shumba Camp is known to offer fantastic lion viewing in the area - prides of lion sometimes up to 20 strong can be seen. Wildlife viewing can be enjoyed from the comfort of your tent for most of the day or from the main viewing deck at the camp and species including puku, lechwe and hippo can be seen for much of the day. Shumba Camp consists of six spacious and luxurious safari tents built on raised platforms offering magnificent views. The rooms offer en-suite facilities with both indoor and outdoor showers. The dining and bar area is elevated and dinner is served either here or in the cosy boma area. Many meals are prepared and cooked on the fire in front of the guests enhancing the safari experience.
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