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Zambia Nature & Parks

Parks and natural wonders of Zambia — the Falls themselves, the Zambezi and Hwange National Parks, Mosi-oa-Tunya, the Batoka Gorge and the Zambezi River.

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Bangweulu Wetlands — Bangweulu. 'Where the water meets the sky' — the world's most reliable place to see shoebill, plus black lechwe in enormous numbers
Blue Lagoon National Park — Blue Lagoon. The northern side of the Kafue Flats, a causeway out into the floodplain and huge lechwe herds
Busanga Plains — Busanga Plains. Seasonally flooded grassland in northern Kafue, famous for tree-climbing lion and red lechwe in their thousands
Chishimba Falls — Chishimba Falls. Three falls in succession near Kasama, with a sacred pool and an easy walk between them
Kafue National Park — Kafue National Park. Zambia's largest park and one of the biggest in Africa — miombo, the Kafue river, and the Busanga plains in the north
Kalambo Falls — Kalambo Falls. A single uninterrupted drop of 235m on the Tanzanian border, among the highest in Africa, and a major Stone Age…
Kasanka National Park — Kasanka National Park. Small park, extraordinary event — up to ten million straw-coloured fruit bats roost here each November, the largest…
Knife-Edge Bridge Viewpoint — Mosi-oa-Tunya. Footbridge facing the Eastern Cataract and Boiling Pot; best falls views from the Zambian bank
Lake Tanganyika — Lake Tanganyika. The world's second-deepest and second-oldest lake, with hundreds of endemic cichlids and water of remarkable clarity
Liuwa Plain National Park — Liuwa Plain. A vast, empty grass plain in the far west, holding Africa's second-largest wildebeest migration each November
Livingstone Island — Lip of the Falls. Island at the very edge of the falls where Livingstone first viewed them; Devil's Pool access
Lochinvar National Park — Lochinvar. Kafue Flats wetland famous for the endemic Kafue lechwe and enormous waterbird numbers
Lower Zambezi National Park — Lower Zambezi National Park. Escarpment, floodplain and river, best seen from a canoe; elephant, buffalo and outstanding tiger fishing
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park — Livingstone. Small park hugging the Zambezi above the falls; white rhino, zebra and giraffe on game drives
Mutinondo Wilderness — Mutinondo. Private miombo wilderness of granite whalebacks, waterfalls and clear rivers — walking country rather than game country
Ngonye Falls — Ngonye Falls. A wide horseshoe of falls on the upper Zambezi in the west — far less visited than Victoria Falls and impressive in its…
North Luangwa National Park — North Luangwa. Walking-only wilderness with no roads to speak of, and the site of Zambia's black rhino reintroduction
Nsumbu National Park — Nsumbu. Where the bush meets Lake Tanganyika — game, escarpment and clear-water beaches on the same shoreline
Shiwa Ng'andu Estate — Shiwa Ng'andu. An English manor house and working estate in the northern bush, with hot springs, a lake and a remarkable family history
South Luangwa National Park — South Luangwa National Park. The birthplace of the walking safari and one of Africa's great game parks — leopard at density, and the Luangwa's oxbow…