Zambia

South Luangwa, walking safaris & the Zambezi

About Zambia

Zambia is the spiritual home of the walking safari — a tradition born in South Luangwa National Park, where following wildlife on foot with an expert guide remains the most intimate and authentic wildlife experience in Africa. The park's dense concentrations of leopard, lion, elephant, and hippo, combined with extraordinary night drive opportunities, make it one of the continent's finest Big Five destinations. The Lower Zambezi National Park offers canoe safaris along the Zambezi floodplain with elephant and buffalo wading in the shallows, and Victoria Falls — one of the Seven Natural Wonders — thunders on Zambia's southern border. Kafue, Africa's second-largest national park, remains gloriously uncrowded. Zambia rewards those who seek the road less travelled.

Parks & Regions

South Luangwa National Park

Zambia

South Luangwa National Park is the spiritual home of the African walking safari, a tradition born here in the 1950s when Norman Carr first led guests on foot through the Luangwa Valley. The park covers 9,050 km² of exceptionally diverse habitat along the Luangwa River and is among Africa's most productive wildlife destinations: one of the continent's highest leopard densities, outstanding lion, wild dog, hyena, elephant, hippo, and buffalo. The legendary night drive programme, operated by private camps on exclusive traversing rights, reveals a nocturnal world of civets, genets, honey badgers, and lion hunts unavailable in most African reserves. South Luangwa is the defining Zambia safari experience and one of Saringi Tours' most recommended destinations for seasoned travellers.

7-Day Maasai Mara Safari

7 DaysMaasai Mara, Kenya

3 Days Exploring Lake Nakuru & Lake Naivasha

3 DaysLake Nakuru & Lake Naivasha, Kenya

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Lower Zambezi National Park

Zambia

The Lower Zambezi National Park stretches along the Zambian bank of the Zambezi River opposite Zimbabwe's Mana Pools, forming one of Africa's most pristine and dramatic wilderness corridors. The floodplain ecosystem supports enormous elephant herds, buffalo, hippo, crocodile, lion, and leopard, all viewed from both game-drive vehicles and canoes on the river itself. Canoeing the Lower Zambezi — gliding silently between pods of hippo and past elephant wading at the water's edge — is one of Africa's most extraordinary safari experiences. The park's remoteness, exclusive camps, and the intimacy of river-level wildlife encounters make the Lower Zambezi one of Zambia's greatest and least-crowded treasures.

Rwanda Gorilla & Golden Monkey Trek

4 DaysKigali & Volcanoes National Park

Rwanda Primates & Lake Kivu Safari

6 DaysKigali, Nyungwe, Lake Kivu & Volcanoes NP

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Kafue National Park

Zambia

Kafue National Park is Africa's second-largest protected area and one of the continent's most undervisited safari gems, covering an extraordinary 22,400 km² of miombo woodland, floodplain, and river ecosystem in central Zambia. The Busanga Plains in the park's north are one of Africa's finest and most exclusive safari environments: seasonally flooded grasslands that dry out from July to October to form a concentrated wildlife stage of lion, cheetah, wild dog, red lechwe, sitatunga, and enormous flocks of wading birds. Kafue's exceptional diversity, from the broad floodplains of the Kafue River to the remote Liuwa Plain, and its complete absence of crowds make it the natural choice for travellers who want the finest Zambia safari experience away from the beaten track.