There are nineteen national parks in Zambia, although a few of them are not maintained and so contain no facilities and few animals. Others have high concentrations of animals and are popular with tourists, while two or three are world-famous.

Kasanka National Park

Kasanka is a beautiful wilderness of woodland, plains, lakes, rivers and swamps in the Northern part of Zambia. It forms a valuable protected area for many endangered species.

This park is home to diverse vegetation and is home to some very unusual wildlife species like the puku and roan antelope.

This is a small but charming park and has four rivers and eight lakes flowing into the Bengweulu Wetland. It offers excellent angling opportunities, and bird watchers come here to see a huge number of birds that is not usually found in Southern Africa. One of them is the rare and strange looking Shoebill Stork that resembles the now extinct Dodo. The swamp forests of Kasanka, also harbour the rare antelope, the Sitatunga, which only lives in wetland areas and is rarely seen. In November and Desember you may also witness the sight of millions of straw coloured fruit bats swarm at sunset.

Other attractions include the David Livingstone Memorial. It is here that the great explorer ended his final journey. Under the memorial his heart (literally) is buried. The Nsala Caves contain some of Africa's best rock paintings. The most ancient of these strange artworks is thought to be 20,000 years old. And then there is the Kundalila Falls. These are in an area of breathtaking splendour close to the edge of the Muchingo escarpment and it is here that Kuombe River tumbles 65m into a pool.

South Luangwa National Park

The Luangwa River is Africa's most intact major river system and the lifeblood of the South Luangwa National Park. Few other parks can match this incredibly high game density nor do they have the ability to show visitors such remarkable wildlife in such a remote and isolated wilderness. The concentration of game around the Luangwa River is among the most intense in Africa

Birdwatching is excellent in the valley. Near the end of the dry season, when the river and oxbow lagoons begin to retreat, hundreds of large water birds can be seen wading through the shallows. Of the most beautiful are the elegant crowned cranes with their golden tufts, which congregate in large flocks at the salt pans.

Large elephant and buffalo herds abound in the South of Luanga and an estimated 50 hippopotamus per kilometer can be found in the river. The park has 14 different species of antelope and is home to Thornicroft's giraffe, unique to the Luangwa valley.

There are many excellent lodges in this exceptional park. If you are staying at one, the guides will make sure that you see all that the valley has to offer in terms of birds, wildlife and varied vegetation and habitats. If you are in your own vehicle be sure to get a map of the park from the Crocodile farm at the entrance.

Blue Lagoon National Park

A small park in the north of the Kafue Flats west of Lusaka, known chiefly for bird life they only have one lodge

Isangano National Park

This park is east of the Bangweulu Swamps they have no facilities and little wildlife.

Kafue National Park

This park is world-famous for its animals and is one of the world's largest national parks with several lodges. It covers an area of about 22,400 km².

The Kafue is the third largest park in Africa and one of the top five largest in the world. The park has over 40 species of wildlife including, Elephant, Buffalo, Zebra, Kudu, Sable and Roan antelope, Lion, Leopard, Hyena, Hippo, Crocodile. It also have a small, rare antelope, the Lechwe which is almost extinct due to poachers and now found mostly on the Busanga Plains .The birdlife is spectacular with more than 400 varieties of bird life, concentrated on the flood plains and river banks. The Kafue River, which winds through the park, offers good game fishing.