Best Zambian Victoria Falls, Livingstone, South Luangwa Leopards, Lower Zambezi, Kafue, Lusaka and Zambia Deep Wildlife Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Zambia travel | Africa destinations Best Zambian Victoria Falls, Livingstone, South Luangwa Leopards, Lower Zambezi, Kafue, Lusaka and Zambia Deep Wildlife Heritage Tour Destinations (Updated 2026-05-11) TL;DR I planned my Zambia run around five anchors that almost every serious safari traveler eventually circles back to: Victoria Falls and Livingstone in the south, South Luangwa for the leopards and walking safaris, Lower Zambezi for canoe drifting, Kafue for sheer scale, and North Luangwa for the rawest, most stripped down bush walking I have ever done. The numbers do most of the talking. Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders, drops 108 m and stretches 1,708 m across at peak flow, which is the largest sheet of falling water on the planet, and it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site jointly with Zimbabwe in 1989. Zambia carved out 20 national parks that together cover roughly 30 percent of the country's 752,618 km² landmass, which is a stronger c...