Kafue National Park
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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.
Top Destinations in Kafue National Park
Busanga Bush Camp is private and romantic and offers a private location in the Kafue National Park. The camp caters for only 8 guests in four luxurious safari tents.
Lufupa Tented Camp is small and personal and offers only nine safari-style tents with en-suite facilities and private wooden decks offering sweeping views and magical sunsets over the river.
Shumba Camp is known to offer fantastic lion viewing in the Busanga Plains area; prides of lion sometimes up to 20 strong can be seen here. The safari tents are luxurious and spacious and situated on raised platforms overlooking the bush.
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.
Kafue National Park
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Safari Lodges within Kafue
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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.
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.
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. A variety of activities are available and guests can explore the Kafue National Park on game drives, by boat or on foot.
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.
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.
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.
Luxury
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.
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.
Nanzhila Plains 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. 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.
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. All game activities will be accompanied by expert guides.
Premier
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.
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.
