Ultimate Zambia
The journey, one day at a time
Arrive South Luangwa National Park
Arrive in South Luangwa National Park, met and transferred to your accommodation. The modern walking safari was pioneered in the Luangwa — to walk here is to do the original.
South Luangwa National Park
Walking safaris by day and leopard-rich night drives along the Luangwa. Arrive and settle in.
South Luangwa National Park
Walking safaris by day and leopard-rich night drives along the Luangwa.
To Lower Zambezi National Park
Transfer to Lower Zambezi National Park. Canoe and boat the Zambezi channels, with floodplain game drives. Arrive and settle in.
Lower Zambezi National Park
Canoe and boat the Zambezi channels, with floodplain game drives. What Mana Pools is to Zimbabwe, the Lower Zambezi is to Zambia — the same river, a different shore.
Lower Zambezi National Park
Canoe and boat the Zambezi channels, with floodplain game drives.
To Kafue National Park
Transfer to Kafue National Park. Game drives on the Busanga Plains and along the Kafue River. Arrive and settle in.
Kafue National Park
Game drives on the Busanga Plains and along the Kafue River. Kafue's size and remoteness keep the crowds away — its reward is space and genuine wildness.
Kafue National Park
Game drives on the Busanga Plains and along the Kafue River.
To Liuwa Plain National Park
Transfer to Liuwa Plain National Park. Game drives among the gathering wildebeest and hyena clans of the western plain. Arrive and settle in.
Liuwa Plain National Park
Game drives among the gathering wildebeest and hyena clans of the western plain. Liuwa's wildebeest gathering is one of the continent's great unseen spectacles.
To Lusaka
Transfer to Lusaka. Overnight in the capital and connect by charter to the parks.
Lusaka
Overnight in the capital and connect by charter to the parks. Zambia's spread-out parks make a Lusaka night part of the plumbing of most trips.
Departure
A final morning in Lusaka — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The season changes what you see.
Peak season
Dry season. Walking at its best, game packed along the river, leopard sightings peak.
Good season
Emerald season. Lush and bird-rich; some camps close, others run low-water specials.
Hand-picked camps & lodges
Time + Tide Mchenja
An elegant ebony-grove camp on the Luangwa, classic walking-safari country.
Lolebezi
A sleek contemporary lodge on the Zambezi, blending river, canoe and game-drive days.
Busanga Bush Camp
A tiny seasonal camp on the Busanga Plains — lion, lechwe and total solitude.
King Lewanika
Liuwa's only permanent camp — a refined base for Africa's forgotten migration.
Chinzombo
A design-led riverfront camp opposite the park — superb guiding and quiet luxury.
Royal Zambezi Lodge
A riverfront lodge with spa and fishing, on the park's edge.
Make it yours.
Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.