Kafue National Park

Kafue National Park is the country's oldest and largest national park.

Zambia's best-kept safari secret is an untrammelled park boasting astonishing safaris in the wildest settings. Leopards, lions, elephants, cheetahs, spotted hyenas, and wild dogs are often seen. Vast herds of buffalos, impalas, red lechwes, wildebeests, waterbucks, pukus and zebras arrive to graze and slake their thirst in the dry season.

Spanning 22,400km2 (2,24 million hectares) - more than twice the size of South Africa's Kruger National Park - the park is dominated by the Kafue River and its many tributaries, swampy floodplains and the manmade Itezhi-tezhi dam.

Kafue transitions from miombo woodland punctuated by granite outcrops in the south to the sweeping plains and wetlands of the north. In the northernmost corner of the park lies the veritable wildlife haven of the Busanga Plains, surrounded by the Busanga Swamps.