24 | The Lion King
Kafue National Park
Kafue National Park is the oldest and largest of Zambia’s
national parks. It covers a massive 22,400 km2 in the centre of
Western Zambia it stretches over North Western, Central and
Southern provinces.
Despite its size and prominent location, only two-hour drive
from Livingstone, it remains little-known and largely unex-
plored with vast tracts of its virgin bush still untouched. Thanks
to its size and variety of habitat types, the Kafue holds a
fantastic diversity of wildlife.
In recent years, the Park has seen a well-managed growth in
the number of Safari Camps and Lodges that operate in and
around the Park. This new interest has brought with it more
visitors and investment to the area, notably in infrastructure
with a number of well-graded roads and airstrips.
The Caracal, the
largest of the
African small cats,
occurs in both
Kafue and Luangwa
National Parks
Kasaba Bay
Kasaba Bay Lodge lies on the shores of
Lake Tanganyika within Sumbu Nation-
al Park. Lake Tanganyika is located in
the Northern Province of Zambia and is
shared by Burundi, Democratic Repub-
lic of Congo and Tanzania. Lake Tan-
ganyika is the second largest freshwater
lake and the second deepest lake
after Lake Baikal of Siberia. In Africa,
it is the second largest lake after Lake
Victoria. Kasaba bay lodge was built as
one of the presidential lodges for the
first republican president. Dr. Kenneth
Kaunda.
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