zambia

Zambia has recently come to the fore as one of Africa’s most popular safari destinations, especially for those seeking remote and largely unexplored quality game viewing areas.

4 setting off early morning walk Luangwa _original

The Luangwa Valley, which was gazetted to protect the endemic Thornicroft’s giraffe, is the best known of Zambia’s parks. A series of ox bow lakes, plains and forest, Luangwa hosts a huge concentration of game, especially leopard, and is the inspiration for many of David Shepherd’s African paintings.

3b Chiawa Lower Zam Leopard

To the west, Kafue National Park is 22,000 square kilometres of classic grassland with seasonally flooded swamps, separated by the permanent waters of the Kafue and Lunga Rivers. It is rich in game with large herds of red lechwe, puku, Defassa waterbuck, Liechtenstein’s hartebeest, roan antelope and the shy sitatunga. A unique feature of Kafue’s varied birdlife is the endangered wattled crane.

Sunset - Zambia - JGS

The Zambezi Valley is one of Africa’s famed geographical features. It is an area of extraordinary beauty and is fabulously rich in wildlife. The Zambezi River forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The two countries share part of the fast flowing Upper Zambezi, the Victoria Falls, Lake Kariba and the quiet waters of the lower Zambezi, with its many narrow side channels which provide a wonderful opportunity to game view by canoe.

Elephant - Zambia - JGS

Weather
Prime Time: May – October
Hottest time September and October
(It is cold at night and in the early mornings from June to August but daytime temperatures are very warm and comfortable.)

straw coloured fruit bat 5 - kasanka NP - zambia - JGS

Bartle Bull, Safari. A Chronicle of Adventure

“Even today, to visit Africa is a feast for the senses. The bush literally brings one’s faculties to life, as you learn to see better, to smell for the first time, to be silent and to listen.”
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“Even today, to visit Africa is a feast for the senses. The bush literally brings one’s faculties to life, as you learn to see better, to smell for the first time, to be silent and to listen.”

Gustave Flaubert

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
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“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

Richard Ferris Burton, Explorer 1821 – 1890

“The gladdest moment in human life is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.'
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“The gladdest moment in human life is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.'

Charles Kingsley (Writer 1819 – 1875)

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
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“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

Marcel Proust

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
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“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
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“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”

Mark Twain

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Sylvia Dolson, Joy of Bears

“If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.”
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“If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.”

Anon

“Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you've been all along.”
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“Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you've been all along.”

Anita Desai

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
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“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

John Muir

“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”
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“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.”

Karen Blixen

“There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and makes you feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.”
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“There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and makes you feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.”

Bill Bryson

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
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“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
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