Travel through the Southern and Central Kafue for 6 or 9 nights
This safari is a great way to enjoy a river-based and plains or lake based safari experience in one trip! It consists of 3 nights at either Nanzhila Plains OR Lake Camp and 3 nights at Kaingu Safari Lodge, exploring the Southern and Central Kafue National Park. There is also the option of extending this safari to 9 nights with 3 nights at Plains Camp, 3 nights at Lake Camp and 3 nigths ta Kaingu Safri Lodge.
This safari could either start in Livingstone and end in Lusaka OR start in Lusaka and end in Livingstone.
AVAILABLE DATES
1 April – 30 November
SAFARI DURATION
6 or 9 nights (3 nights at each camp)
TRAVEL LOGISTICS
Road Transfers included from start to finish
Travel route for the Classic Kafue Safari
1. Collection in Livingstone – 2. Park Gate – 3. Plains Camp – 4. Lake Camp – 5. Kaingu Safari Lodge – 6. Drop off in Lusaka

This package can be booked in the reverse order as well
The Classic Kafue package begins in Livingstone with a 5 hour road transfer to the the camp – of which 2 hours are spent in the Park on a game drive. Once you arrive, you will have time to settle into the rooms and have a bite to eat before your first afternoon game drive. For those coming from Lusaka, then it is a 4hour drive to the Musa Gate and an hour game drive to Lake Camp for an incredible 3 nights on the game rich shorelines of Lake Itezhi-tezhi.
What you will love about Plains and Lake Camp:

OWNER RUN EXPERIENCE
Your hosts at Nanzhila are the owners – Steve and Cindy Smith – which means you are assured of faultless attention to detail and hours of stories around the fire about life in the bush!

DAMBO FACING ROOMS
The chalets or safari tents all have beautiful views over the dambo and the gauzed windows allow all the wonderful sounds of the African night to reach you clearly!

LAND BASED ACTIVITIES
Game drives and safari walks around Nanzhila are bound to reveal a wide variety of wildlife and bird species including 4 out of the Big 5!
After breakfast, we will leave Nanzhila and head out through the Ngoma Forest towards Lake Itezhi-tezhi before arriving at the ITT shoreline. Stopping at an appropriate shady spot, we will enjoy a picnic lunch watching the antics of the wildlife around the lake before meeting the team from Kaingu. Kaingu is magnificently situated in the riparian woodland on the banks of the Kafue River with stunning views. African finfoot, hippo and a wide variety of birdlife are on constant display and river based boat cruises and canoeing is a must on this portion of the Kafue River. Kaingu also conducts game drives in a stunning section of the Kafue National Park.
What you will love about Kaingu Safari Lodge:

WILDLIFE ENCOUNTERS
As Kaingu is river-based, it offers a number of bird and wildlife species that are not found in Nanzhila so the combination of the 2 camps really gives you the full Kafue Safari feel!

RIVER FACING TENTS
The riverside accommodation at Kaingu is stunning with constant bird activity and the honking of hippos in the background. These well appointed safari tents are beautiful, comfortable and perfectly positioned.

RIVER BASED ACTIVITIES
The section of the Kafue River around Kaingu is stunning and the boat cruises and canoe trips are an absolute must. The variety of river activities form a great complement to the other more traditional safari activities on offer.