4 Days Breathtaking Safari in Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia

Facilities

Day 1: Arrive and transfer to Kiambi Safari Lodge in Lower Zambezi Valley

On arrival at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport (LUN), the representative will pick you up and transfer you to Kiambi Safari Lodge in the Lower Zambezi National Park, where you will stay for first three nights which will give you an unforgettable Zambian safari experience.

The drive takes about three hours and it’s a beautiful and adventurous transfer as you will pass through the villages and since it’s a private transfer you will have the opportunity to stop the driver, ask questions as well as interacting with the local people on the way.

Depending on your arrival time, you will check-in, lunch and later in the afternoon, complimentary sunset boat cruise. Later dinner after dinner, you are free to stay around have a drink at the bar before bedtime.

Day 2: Overnight Canoe Safari - Lower Zambezi

Breakfast is at 7:30 a.m., followed by meeting your canoeing guide to give you a brief run-down of the canoeing trip, dangerous animals, safety measures while on the river and at the campsites, and techniques on canoeing.

Departure is from the jetty, proceeding down the river. A stop is made for tea, which is set up by the backup boat. After that, you stop for lunch, which is also set up by the backup boat. Then you continue downriver after lunch.

The backup boat goes on ahead to set up the campsite. In the late afternoon, we stop at the campsite at Buffalo Beans, situated on an island, Tents, bedrolls, wash-up facilities, a drop toilet, and a bucket shower facility will all be set up when you get there. Dinner, fresh drinking water, and juice are always provided.

Day 3: Full Day Game Drive Safari in Lower Zambezi National Park

Today, you have a mini breakfast early tea/coffee and snacks then the motorboat will come from the lodge with a picnic (packed) will come to pick you. An adventure early morning cruise to the Chongwe Conference, where you will find a 4x4 open-sided safari car. There, you will pay for park entry fees and then get on the vehicle; your guide will give you the briefing. You will enjoy this wonderful park with game viewing and then later your guide will stop for some breakfast and continue with your game viewing until around 1:00 p.m. you will have lunch in the bush.

Relax a bit before continuing until around 3:00 p.m. when you will return to the Chongwe Confluences and get on the boat for about 1.5h hours boat cruise back to the lodge arriving just before dark. You will then go to your room freshen up and then relax a bit before you know it, it’s already dinner time with this amazing Riverview with open blue sky and stars. After dinner, you are free to enjoy some cold drinks from the bar or hold drinks then bedtime at a convenient time.

Day 4

Breakfast then you will check out of the lodge and depending on your flight time out of Lusaka or onward arrangements, a driver will take you on a 3.5-hour road transfer to Lusaka International Airport.

Guides

You are likely going to be guided by different guides depending on the destinations you will cover as these are not fixed dates safari and tours. However, all the guides are qualified from different associations depending on the destination but all with licenses that are issued by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife under the ministry of tourism country word as they have to pass the exams. The guides have vast experience and knowledge of nature, wildlife birds and local habitat, culture and general knowledge as they have been guiding in these areas for many years.

Guides are categorized in two they are grades one and two. Grade ones are the guides that have the license to drive and do walking safaris and grade twos are the ones that have a license to drive and not to walk.

This safari will take place in Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia.

Lower Zambezi National Park

This park is still relatively undeveloped, its beauty lies in its wilderness state. The diversity of animals is not as wide as the other big parks, but the opportunities to get close to game wandering in and out of the Zambezi channels are spectacular. The park lies opposite the famous Mana Pools Reserve in Zimbabwe, so the whole area on both sides of the Zambezi River is a massive wildlife sanctuary.

The River’s edge is overhung with a thick riverine fringe, including ebony and fig trees. Further inland is a floodplain fringed with mopane forest and interspersed with winterthorn trees and huge acacias. The hills which form the backdrop to the park are covered in broadleaf.

Even though the Lower Zambezi National Park covers an area of 4092 square kilometers, most of the game is concentrated along the valley floor. There is an escarpment along the northern end which acts as a physical barrier to most of the park’s animal species. Enormous herds of elephant, some up to 100 strong, are often seen at the river’s edge. ‘Island hopping’ buffalo and waterbuck are common. The park also hosts good populations of lion and leopard, and listen too for the ubiquitous cry of the fish eagle.

Zambia

Zambia is a big country as large as France, Switzerland, Austria, and Hungary combined, covering some 750,000 square kilometers and lying in the tropical belt on South Central Africa, 10 to 18 degrees south of the equator.

Being on a high plateau, averaging 1,300 meters above sea level, the climate is very temperate with little humidity. The country is landlocked but has many, lakes and rivers with beaches and water sports to be enjoyed in uncrowned and uncluttered surroundings.

Indeed the unspoiled nature of Zambia is perhaps its greatest tourist asset. Rich in scenery and wildlife, Zambia today has become the tourist heart of a great continent which offers something that is becoming progressively rare in this shrinking world, the chance to escape from holiday masses and sour something of an environment that has remained unchanged since the very beginning of time.

• 3 nights accommodation (first and last night luxury ensuite tented chalet and second night overnight canoe on the island)
• All meals (breakfast, lunch and 3-course dinner)
• 1 x complimentary sunset boat cruise
• 1 x overnight canoe safari
• 1 x full day game Drive Safari in Lower Zambezi National Park
• Return Lusaka to Kiambi Safari Lodge Road Transfers

• Visa fees
• Travel insurance
• Flights and laundry service
• 1 day park fees for Lower Zambezi National Park (USD 25.00 per person)
• Anything of personal nature

• A reservation requires a deposit of 50% of the total price.
• The deposit is fully refundable if the booking is cancelled up to 90 days before the arrival date.
• The rest of the payment should be paid 45 days before arrival.