| Duration: | 15 Day(s) - 14 Night(s) |
| Tour Category: | Adventure Tours |
14 Nights - Let’s Explore Zambia Safari Tour
This 14 nights/15days packages combines wonderful views of the mighty Victoria Falls and the Kafue, Lower Zambezi and the South Luangwa National Parks in Zambia, which are the top Zambian tourist destinations and has the best to offer.
The package is more focused on the Water based activities and the great Wildlife Sanctuaries of Zambia and you will get a chance to experience one of the best wildlife safaris on the African Continent.
This is the perfect safari package for wildlife safari enthusiasts and it is an itinerary that allows guests to see a lot of wildlife (animals and birds during your trip).
In this package, we combine the following tourist destination areas of Zambia;
Safari highlights;
On arrival at Livingstone International Airport, our representative will welcome and help you with your luggage then transfer you from the airport to Victoria Falls Waterfront Lodge which will be your home for your first three nights in Zambia.
Day 1 to Day 4 – Victoria Falls Waterfront Lodge in Livingstone
Fun and lively, the Victoria Falls Waterfront is the perfect place to stay when you are looking for centrally located, yet affordable Livingstone accommodation.
The Victoria Falls Waterfront Lodge has long been known as the heart of Livingstone, Victoria Falls Zambia. Only four kilometres from the areas main attraction, the Victoria Falls, the resort is ideally positioned to take advantage of the many activities that are on offer in the area. The Waterfront resort offers great facilities including a restaurant and bar where many sundowners have been enjoyed from the deck whilst overlooking the Zambezi River and Siloka Island.
Sundowners on the Zambezi River are an essential start to a holiday in Victoria Falls. Each day the HMV Makumbi, the party boat of note, departs from the Waterfront jetty for a sunset cruise up the Zambezi, which includes all drinks and snacks, returning as night falls.
The Victoria Falls Waterfront Lodge Facilities
Why stay at Victoria Falls Waterfront?
Victoria Falls Waterfront Lodge – Livingstone, activities
Day 4 – transfer from Victoria Falls Waterfront to Livingstone International Airport
After your breakfast on this day your safari guide will transfer you from Victoria Falls Waterfront Lodge to Livingstone Airport for your local flight from Livingstone to Lusaka. Here you will find your driver waiting for you who will help you with your luggage and later transfer you from Lusaka Airport Mukambi Safari Lodge in Kafue National Park.
Brief notes about Kafue National Park
Found in the centre of western Zambia, Kafue National Park is the oldest and largest of Zambia’s national parks. It covers a massive 22,400 km2.
First established as a National Park in the 1950’s by the legendary Norman Carr, Kafue is one of the largest national parks in the whole of Africa. Despite its size and prominent location only two hours drive from Livingstone, it remains little-known and largely unexplored with vast tracts of its virgin bush still untouched. Thanks to its size and variety of habitat types the Kafue holds a fantastic diversity of wildlife.
In recent years the Park has seen a well-managed growth in the number of Safari Camps and Lodges that operate in and around the Park. This new interest has brought with it more visitors and investment to the area, notably in infrastructure with a number of well-graded roads and airstrips.
As a consequence of the increasing interest and benefits in terms of investment this brings, the wildlife is beginning to enjoy an increased level of protection by the Zambian Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), always aided and supported by the operators in and adjoining the park.
Day 4 to Day 6 - Mukambi Safari Lodge
Spend a night in the wild in our spacious family chalets along the Kafue River or bring your own camping gear. Enjoy a day of fishing or simply relax with an evening boat cruise while watching the beautiful sunset over the Kafue River. Indulge in our delicious meals made with the best ingredients, or cook your catch of freshly caught fish from the Kafue River. Go game viewing in our specialised safari vehicles or take a walking safari to see a vast range of wild animals in the Kafue National Park. Keep powered up at the lodge with solar power and backup generators.
Experience an opportunity to appreciate the great variety of wildlife, with a morning or night drive in our specially customized safari vehicle and knowledgeable guides. Boat safari or walking safari facilities are also available.
Included at Mukambi Safari Lodge in Kafue National Park
Day 6 – Transfer from Mukambi Safari Lodge to Stay Easy in Lusaka
After breakfast on this day – your driver will transfer you from Mukambi Safari Lodge in Jafuwe to Stay Easy Hotel in Lusaka where you will spend one night and connect to Kiambi Lodge in the Lower Zambezi National park on the following day. This road transfer takes aproximately 2 to 3 hours driving on a nice road.
Day 6 to Day 7- Stay Easy Hotel in Lusaka
Our hotel is consistently rated as one of the best budget-friendly hotels in Lusaka. Located on Church Road, only minutes from Lusaka’s central business district, Stay Easy Lusaka offers true value for money to business and leisure travellers seeking accommodation in Zambia’s vibrant capital city.
Our Lusaka hotel offers guests a choice of 130 tastefully furnished en-suite rooms that are comfortable as well as ecologically friendly and include a range of amenities. Daily complimentary light breakfasts are served and for guests who simply wish to relax, the hotel offers the use of an inviting outdoor pool and patio leisure area.
Guests who wish to explore the surrounds are spoilt for choice, with attractions like the Kabwata Cultural Village, the National Museum and several craft markets in close proximity. Nature lovers are conveniently located within reach of the famed Lower Zambezi National Park and several other world-class game reserves.
Stay Easy Hotels
Stay Easy Hotel in Lusaka
Brief notes about Lower Zambezi National Park
This Park is still relatively undeveloped, it’s beauty lying in it’s wilderness state. The diversity of animals is not as wide as the other big parks, but the opportunities to get close to game wandering in and out of the Zambezi channels are spectacular. The Park lies opposite the famous Mana Pools Reserve in Zimbabwe, so the whole area on both sides of the Zambezi River is a massive wildlife sanctuary.
The River’s edge is overhung with a thick riverine fringe, including ebony and fig trees. Further inland is a floodplain fringed with mopane forest and interspersed with winterthorn trees and huge acacias. The hills which form the backdrop to the Park are covered in broadleaf
Even though the Lower Zambezi National Park covers an area of 4092 square kilometers, most of the game is concentrated along the valley floor. There is an escarpment along the northern end which acts as a physical barrier to most of the Park’s animal species. Enormous herds of elephant, some up to 100 strong, are often seen at the river’s edge. ‘Island hopping’ buffalo and waterbuck are common. The Park also hosts good populations of lion and leopard, and listen too for the ubiquitous cry of the fish eagle.
Day 7 to Day 10 - Kiambi Lodge in Lower Zambezi National Park
Kiambi Lower Zambezi is your first gentle, mellow taste of the Lower Zambezi, and sets the uniquely African stage for your forthcoming journey of discovery.
Kiambi Safari owns and operates an exclusive lodge in the Lower Zambezi Valley – Kiambi Lower Zambezi, situated in the Chiawa Game Management area of the Zambezi Valley, in a prime location on the confluence of the Zambezi and Kafue Rivers. The Lodge welcomed the first guests at Kiambi Lower Zambezi in May 1999 and has from its inception, enchanted one and all by truly capturing the essence of the Lower Zambezi. Kiambi Lower Zambezi offers a unique composite experience, a rare combination of Africa’s culture, scenery and wildlife. This is “The real Africa”. Each of the luxury thatched chalets is set on a raised wooden platform, with spacious en-suite facilities and private verandas with a view over the Zambezi. While relishing the supreme comfort, furnished stylishly in Rhodesian teak and equipped with the necessities to make your stay comfortable; Kiambi guests never lose that close-to-nature experience.
All luxury thatched chalets come with a fully stocked bar fridge, tea and coffee facilities, fans, an en-suite bathroom with hot showers and can accommodate 3 single beds comfortably or 4 at a squeeze.
Included at Kiambi Safari Lodge – Lower Zambezi Valley
Day 10 – Transfer from Kiambi Safari Lodge to Lusaka Int Airport
After exploring the Lower Zambezi National park for three nights – you will have another road transfer back to Lusaka International airport where you will connect on the local flights from Lusaka heading to Mfuwe in the South Luangwa National Park. On your arrival your safari guide from Wildlife Camp will be waiting for you and transfer you from Mfuwe Int airport to Wildlife Camp for your lifetime safari experience in the paradise of the South Luangwa National Park.
Brief notes about South Luangwa National Park
For most visitors, South Luangwa National Park is by far the most practical park to visit in the valley. This is Zambia’s premier wildlife park, with superb wildlife and many excellent camps. This is where the now famous walking safaris started from over 60 years ago and this unique African destination retains some of the finest world-class safari guides.
There are many contenders for the title of Africa's best game park. The Serengeti, Amboseli, Ngorongoro Crater, Etosha, Kruger, Moremi and Mana Pools would certainly be high on the list. South Luangwa has a better claim than most. Some of these other areas will match its phenomenally high game densities. Many others – the lesser known of Africa's parks – will have equally few visitors. One or two also allow night drives, which open up a different, nocturnal world to view, allowing leopards to be commonly seen and even watched whilst hunting.
However, few have South Luangwa's high quality of guiding together with its remarkable wildlife spectacles, day and night, in the isolation of a true wilderness. These elements, perhaps, are how the contenders ought to be judged, and on these the South Luangwa Park comes out around the top of the list.
Day 10 to Day 13 - Wildlife Safari Camp, South Luangwa National Park
Wildlife Safari Camp is a safari-camp on the banks of the Luangwa River in Zambia. This camp provides guests with an affordable front-row seat to one of the greatest wildlife sanctuaries in Africa, South Luangwa National Park. Since 1992 Wildlife Camp has been one of the most famous and popular camps in the Luangwa Valley, providing our guests with spectacular and authentic experiences in the African bush.
Wildlife Safari Camp has 9 en-suite chalets, five of which are situated in a quiet corner of the camp, overlooking a lagoon area and surrounded by huge shady trees while the other four are located in the centre of our camp, conveniently close to our reception area, main bar and restaurant. These four chalets each offer unique views over the Luangwa River. The Camp also has En-suite Safari Tents which are ideal for budget guests who cannot afford the slightly higher rates for the Chalets.
Included at Wildlife Camp - South Luangwa, Zambia
Day 13 – Transfer from Wildlife Camp to Zikomo Safari Camp within the South Luangwa
On this day after your morning activity your safari guide will transfer you from Wildlife Camp to Zikomo Safari Camp within the South Luangwa National which is situated in the Nsefu Sector with high concentration of wildlife.
Day 13 to Day 15th - Zikomo Safari Camp, South Luangwa National Park
Zikomo Safari is a comfortable eighteen (18) bed camp located in one of the best game viewing areas in the Nsefu Sector of the South Luangwa National Park. Built on the banks of the Luangwa River, Zikomo Safari Camp offers great views of the river and great views of the abundant birds and wildlife that live in and around the area. Far away from other camps, Zikomo Safari Camp has the best location from which to enjoy an unforgettable South Luangwa safari.
Zikomo Safari is owned and operated by an American family who work with experienced Zambian managers and staff. The Camp employs top professional guides, some of them with over fifteen (15) years experience in the Luangwa Valley. With immediate access to the Park, Zikomo Safari Camp guests can treat themselves to wonderful day and night game drives. Magnificent walking safaris, for which the South Luangwa is famous, are also available and they begin and end at the well-appointed main lodge and dining room in the company of a qualified walking guide and an escort scout.
Included at Zikomo Safari Camp – South Luangwa, Zambia
Transfers and local flights included in the package are as follows;
