Book Description
Zambia remains the best place in Africa for walking safaris, river safaris, hot springs, and waterfalls, yet is little explored by travelers. This third edition of Zambia covers all the prime attractions, including all national parks from the Zambezi and Kafe to the famous Luangwa Park, host to several unique species and the best place for leopard-spotting. Advice for the independent traveler encompasses everything from choosing the best bushcamps, lodges, and hotels to organizing memorable safaris. Adrenaline junkies are well catered for with details of the best white-water rafting opportunities in the world, and other adventure activities, such as microlighting above Victoria Falls and canoeing safaris.


About the Author
Chris McIntyre is a director of a UK travel company specializing in southern Africa, traveling regularly throughout the region, including extended trips to Zambia. He is the author of Bradt's Namibia and Botswana guides and he contributes articles to several travel magazines.


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Stalking lion on foot certainly focuses your attention. You think about where you walk; you see every movement; and your ears are aware of every sound.
It's now several years since I wrote the first edition of this guide--the first English guidebook to Zambia--and walking safaris still inspire me. I've been back to Zambia often, but no two walks are alike. One thing always reoccurs: the realization that the more you learn of the bush the more you realize you don't know.
It is the same with the country. The more you delve into it, the more fascinating it becomes. The old tourist board slogan, 'Zambia: the real Africa', still stands. Zambia is still 'real'. It's unsanitized, unpackaged, and still largely unvisited. Zambia offers the best of wild Africa, in a country with very few visitors. It gives an authentic taste of what the whole continent was like: wild, beautiful and slightly unpredictable

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Zambia remains the best place in Africa for walking safaris, river safaris, hot springs, and waterfalls, yet is little explored by travelers. This third edition of Zambia covers all the prime attractions, including all national parks from the Zambezi and Kafe to the famous Luangwa park, host to several unique species and the best place for leopard-spotting. Advice for the independent traveler encompasses everything from choosing the best bushcamps, lodges, and hotels to organizing memorable safaris. Adrenaline junkies are well catered for with details of the best white-water rafting opportunities in the world, and other adventure activities, such as microlighting above Victoria Falls and canoeing safaris.

SYNOPSIS

Zambia remains the best place in Africa for walking safaris, offering unparalleled opportunities to see elephants and other wildlife thanks to the expertise of local guides. But Zambia has much more to offer: vast tracts of open bush, Victoria Falls and the little-explored expanses of Bangweulu Swamps are just a few of the attractions for the visitor seeking the real Africa behind the travel hype. In this second edition of Zambia: The Bradt Travel Guide, author Chris McIntyre has fully updated every aspect of travel in a country which is still scarcely touched by tourism, from accommodation and national parks to transport and adventurous activities. Indispensable both as a planning tool and as a traveling companion.