Southern Africa - Zambia (Chapter)

This is the Zambia chapter from Lonely Planet's Southern Africa guidebook.

Zambia's unique appeal is its rough edge: known as the 'real Africa', the country is not set up for tourism. But take up the challenge of travelling here and you'll be rewarded with snaking rivers, unspoiled woodland, floodplains, countless waterfalls and vast wilderness areas full of wildlife.

• explore vast, classic wildlife country in Kafue National Park, one of Africa's best leopard-spotting areas
• maps
• motor out to remote islands on the enormous artificial Lake Kariba
• transport & directory
• get lost in the untamed immensity of North Zambia with barely another tourist in sight
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Lusaka, The Copperbelt, Kapiri Mposhi, Ndola, Kitwe, Chingola, Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage, Northern Zambia, Serenje, Kasanka National Park, Around Kasanka, Bangweulu Wetlands, Samfya, Mutinondo Wilderness, Shiwa Ng'andu, Kasama, Mbala, Kalambo Falls, Mpulungu, Nsumbu (Sumbu) National Park, Eastern Zambia, Luangwa Bridge, Katete, Chipata, South Luangwa National Park, North Luangwa National Park, Southern Zambia, Monze, Lochinvar National Park, Choma, Nkanga River Conservation Area, Lake Kariba, Chirundu, Lower Zambezi National Park, Western Zambia, Sesheke, Sioma & Ngonye Falls, Senanga, Mongu & around, Liuwa Plain National Park, Kafue National Park.