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kasanka-bat-migration

kasanka
Duration
4 Days · 3 Nights
The route
kasanka
Style
Ten million bats at dusk
Best season
November · best
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What you're tracking

What you'll see

Straw-coloured fruit bat
Up to ten million — the world's largest mammal migration.
Sitatunga
The shy swamp antelope.
Raptors
Hunting the bats at dawn.
Day by day

The journey, one day at a time

01Arrive Kasanka National Park

Arrive Kasanka National Park

The journey begins.

Arrive in Kasanka National Park, met and transferred to your accommodation. By sheer animal numbers, Kasanka's bats outstrip the wildebeest — and almost no one sees them.

02Kasanka National Park

Kasanka National Park

A full day in the field.

Watch the dusk and dawn fruit-bat migration from canopy hides. Arrive and settle in.

03Kasanka National Park

Kasanka National Park

A full day in the field.

Watch the dusk and dawn fruit-bat migration from canopy hides.

04Depart Kasanka National Park

Departure

The journey ends.

A final morning in Kasanka National Park — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.

When to travel

The season changes what you see.

November

Peak season

The bat migration peaks — the dusk and dawn skies are unforgettable.

Late Oct / early Dec

Good season

The migration building or tailing off; still huge numbers.

Destinations

Where this journey goes

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.

Field notes, now and then.

Where to go · When to go · Wildlife in season

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