Kafue National Park

Kafue is Zambia’s oldest and largest park, spreading over 22,400km2 – roughly the size of Wales. Although the park has suffered from severe bouts of poaching and limited funding, it still offers excellent game viewing, birdwatching and fishing opportunities. The Basunga Plains in the north are Zambia’s most significant wetland resource. This vast watery wilderness is flooded in the wet season by several rivers and streams covering up to 750 km2, reaching their height between March and May each year. In the south, the Kafue runs into Itezhi Tezhi Dam which is surrounded by grassy plains, rocky bays and stretches of submerged trees.