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Wildlife in South Luangwa
If you’re staying at one of the Valley’s lodges, the guides will ensure you have every opportunity to see all that the valley has to offer of its wildlife, birds and varying vegetation and habitats. If you’re in your own vehicle, be sure to get a map of the park from the Crocodile Farm at [...]
South Luangwa National Park
Experts have dubbed South Luangwa as one of the greatest wildlife sanctuaries in the world, and not without reason. 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 most intact major river system in Africa and is the life blood [...]
Getting to Sumbu Safaris Parks, accommodation
Access to Sumbu National Park and Nkamba Lodge is either by road via Mansa or Kasama to Sumbu and the Park Gate (1363 Km and 1188 Km respectively from Lusaka), by air from Lusaka (or Ndola) to Kasaba Bay / Nkamba Bay Airports (810 Km direct), or by boat from Mpulungu (no regular service). There [...]
Safaris in Sumbu National Parks – Tourist attractions
Even though the wildlife population in the park has declined, there is still a wide variety of species present in the park and numbers are recovering, although sightings are not guaranteed. Roan, sable, eland, hartebeest as well as buffalo and zebra and occasionally elephant, lion and leopard.
Bushbuck, warthog and puku often frequent the beaches. The [...]
Sumbu National Parks
Lying on the southern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the Northern most tip of Zambia, Sumbu National Park covers an area of just over 2000 square km’s encompassing 100kms of some of the most pristine shores of this vast Lake. Its beauty ranges from sandy beaches, vertical cliffs, rocky coves and natural bays to the [...]
Lochinvar National Park Zambia
Lochinvar, though not plentiful in the larger mammals, still makes up a tourist park of extraordinary beauty and striking birdwatching opportunities with 420 and more registered species in it’s 428 square km.
The Park is placed on the southern border of the Kafue Flats, an extensive floodplain of the Kafue River between Itezhi tezhi dam in [...]
Zambia National Parks
Lochinvar tourist park
South Luangwa park
Sumbu National park
Kafue safari park
Nyika National park
Kasanka tourist park
Liuwa Plain safari park
Luambe National park
North Luangwa holiday park
Lower Zambezi National park
Sioma Ngwezi safaris park
Bangweulu Floodplains National park
Mosi-O-Tunya National park
Travel and Africa vacations – Rwanda Tourism
Rwanda, popularly known as the land of seven hills is one of the tourist destinations in Africa.
Led by Rwanda Tourism Board, the Office Rwandais Du Tourisme Et Des Parcs Nationaux (ORTPN), the tourism sector is rapidly developing from the wounds of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
A number of historical sites have been developed mainly the [...]
Rwanda Culture and People
Rwanda was originally inhabited by the pygmies who were predominantly hunters and food gatherers; ancestral to present day Batwa people who comprise of only 0.25% of the national population presently.
The next inhabitants were the agricultural and pastoralist immigrants from the west. It is alleged that before the 15th century a ruler called Gihanga forged a [...]
Rwanda Safaris and Tours
Rwanda’s beauty and diversity is empowered by its six (6) volcanoes, twenty three (23) lakes and several rivers. All these bring out an ideal natural setting whose scenery has attracted visitors.
The magnificent volcanoes together with the dense tropical forests dominate the northern region of the country; Savannah and dense tropical vegetation dominate a larger area [...]