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Kafue is Zambia’s oldest park and by far the largest. It was proclaimed in 1950 and is spread over 8,648 square miles – the second largest national park in the world. The area is still wild with excellent game viewing, birdwatching and fishing opportunities. From the wetlands of the Busanga Plains in the North-western section of the Park to the lush grasslands of the south, fed by the Lunga, Lufupa and Kafue Rivers, the park sustains huge herds of a great diversity of wildlife.
The Park is situated on the southern edge of the Kafue Flats, a wide floodplain of the Kafue River between Itezhi tezhi dam in the west and Kafue Gorge in the east. The area extends for 20 miles from the Kafue River in the north to low wooded hills in the south.
The Lower Zambezi National Park covers an area of 1,800 square miles with most of the game concentrated along the valley floor. There is an escarpment along the northern end that acts as a physical barrier to most of the parks animal species. The rivers edge is overhung with a thick riverine fringe. Further inland is a floodplain fringed with mopane forest and interspersed with winterthorn trees. This is Zambia’s newest Park and as such is still relatively undeveloped.
This wild and undeveloped park offers one of the finest wilderness experiences in Africa. It is not open to the public and there are no permanent lodges there. It is wild and untouched. Vegetation ranges from mopane woodland to riverine forest, open grasslands and acacia thicket, the beautiful sausage trees, vegetable ivory palms, red mahogany and leadwood.
South Luangwa is Zambia’s premier park and covers an area of 3,494 sq. miles. The park has been called one of the greatest wildlife sanctuaries in the world and the concentration of game around the Luangwa river and it’s ox bow lagoons is among the most intense in Africa. The Luangwa River is the life blood of the park and provides water for the park’s lush and varied vegetation. The now famous ‘walking safari’ originated in this park and is still one of the finest ways to experience this pristine wilderness first hand.
Mosi-Oa-Tunya is directly translated as ‘the smoke that thunders’, the local name for the Victoria Falls. One of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the falls straddle the borders of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Zambezi River serves as the fall's water source. With the collective height and width of the falls, it is attributed as the largest sheet of falling water in the world.
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