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conducted. The Park is a raw and diverse slice of
African wilderness with excellent game viewing, bird
watching and fishing opportunities. Most of the park
is dominated by “Miombo Woodland” that give way
to grassy “dambos” with a riverine forest on the fring-
es of the Kafue River as it runs southwards through
the park and empties into Lake Itezhi-Tezhi.
The astounding Busanga Plains dominate the north-
ern section of the Park, an area considered by many
to be a truly undiscovered gem of Africa. These
floodplains are fed by the Lufupa River, which, helps
to create rich grasslands that attract a huge diversity,
and high concentration of antelope. The south of
Kafue is characterised by Miombo, Kalahari Sand-
veld, tall Mopane forests and the wide open grass-
lands of the Nanzhila Plains.
Fed by the emerald green Lunga, Lufupa and Kafue
Rivers, the park sustains a great diversity of wildlife.
Unusual features are the knobbly termite mounds
scattered across the plains. Lichten¬stein’s harte-
beest, wildebeest, buffalo, zebra, puku and impala
are often found frequenting the dambos. Kafue Na-
tional Park is one of the most spectacular and varied
ani¬mal populations in Africa.
Kafue National Park Operators Association
Edjan van der Heide
Chairman
Tel: +260-977-800651
kafuepoa@gmail.com
www.dafuetrust.org
Created in 2007, the Association ensures the conser-
vation and management of the natural environment
and wildlife of the Kafue National Park and it’s sur-
rounding Game Management Areas (GMAs). The
Operating for over 20 years as one of Southern Af-
rica’s preeminent adventure activity and safari op-
erations, SAFPAR operates a lodge on the Zambezi
River, offers canoe safaris on the lower Zambezi
river and serves as adventure activity specialists
in the Victoria Falls region. SAFPAR provides their
services to the Three Cities Group of lodges. With
a wide variety of activities at and around the Victo-
ria Falls range that from River Boarding, Kayaking,
jet boat rides, whitewater rafting, river cruises and
more on the Zambezi River, to bungee jumping, ab-
seiling, helicopter flights, Micro-lights, and aerial ad-
ventures, at Victoria Falls. Also offered lion encoun-
ters, elephant back safaris, horse trails, canoe trails,
game drives, and cultural tours around the falls and
Livingstone as well as day trips to Chobe National
Park in Botswana.
United Air Charters
P O Box 60428
Livingstone
Tel: +260-213-323095 / Fax: +260-213-323095
uac@zamnet.zm
www.uaczam.com
KAFUE NATIONAL PARK
Situated in the central-western region of Zambia,
Kafue National Park is the country’s oldest park
and by far the largest. In fact as it is roughly the
size of Switzerland, Kafue National Park is the larg-
est national park in Africa, and amongst the largest
National Parks in the world. It was formed in 1950
and is spread over 22 400 square kilometres cover-
ing pieces of three of Zambian provinces. It is one of
the largest national parks in the world and is unique
in that over 67% of the Park has been set aside as
“Wilderness Area” where only walking safaris can be
Lion encounters made possible by Mukuni Big 5
Cheetah Encounter with Mukuni Big 5