Country Info
- Lusaka
- Capital
- Kwacha (ZMK)
- Currency
- 9,770,199
- Population
- ZM
- Country Code
Zambia Slideshow
Top Hotels in Zambia
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Taj Pamodzi Hotel Lusaka
60 reviews -
Zambezi Sun Livingstone
267 reviews -
Royal Livingstone
303 reviews -
Intercontinental Lusaka
50 reviews
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Holiday Inn Ridgeway Lusaka
47 reviews
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Protea Hotel Cairo Road Lusaka
14 reviews -
Protea Hotel Lusaka
33 reviews
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Protea Hotel Livingstone
29 reviews
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Pr Lusaka
33 reviews
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Chrismar Hotel Livingstone
22 reviews
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Chrismar Hotel Lusaka
13 reviews
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Cresta Golfview Hotel Ltd. Lusaka
14 reviews
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Cross Roads Lodge Lusaka
3 reviews
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Livingstone Holiday Home
1 review
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Mulungushi Village Lusaka
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Kanyemba Lodge Lusaka
14 reviews
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Tongabezi Lodge Livingstone
113 reviews
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Protea Hotel Chingola Ndola
8 reviews
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Nyambadwe Motel Chirundu
1 review
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Livingstone Safari Lodge & Campsite
9 reviews
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Hotel Edinburgh Kitwe
8 reviews
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Horizon Hotel Kabwe
1 review
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Chita Lodge Lusaka
11 reviews
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Fallsway Lodge Livingstone
6 reviews
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Tuskers Hotel Kabwe
4 reviews
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Lokhuthula Lodge Victoria Falls
6 reviews
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Stanley Safari Lodge Victoria Falls
10 reviews
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Royal Solwezi Hotel & Villas
7 reviews
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Kapamba Bushcamp South Luangwa National Park
37 reviews -
Kuomboka Backpackers Hostel Guest House Lusaka
5 reviews
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Mfuwe Lodge South Luangwa National Park
104 reviews
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The Lusaka Hotel
7 reviews -
Nsolo Bushcamp South Luangwa National Park
6 reviews
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The Wildlife Camp South Luangwa National Park
55 reviews
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Chongwe River Lodge Lusaka
12 reviews
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Kubu Cabins Livingstone
2 reviews
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Lake Kariba Inns Siavonga
5 reviews
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Rite Inn Livingstone
3 reviews
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Lake Safari Lodge Siavonga
8 reviews
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Mukuba Hotel Ndola
14 reviews
Zambia
Travel Blogs from Zambia
Victoria Falls, Zambian side
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas.... Oct 11, Livingstone Duncan had just said that he had difficulty keeping the vehicle straight on the road when a tire blew off....he just had time to park the Pajero by the road. He was driving that day because Tristan had ...
Canoeing on Zambezi river
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Oct 8, Zambezi River Canoeing « There are 5 dangers on this river: the hippos, the current, the wind, the logs and the sun » announces the guide... I wonder why he did not mention the crocs! The morning had not started ...
Zambia via Botswana
This is a top pick! ... Zambian government wanted a $25 visa fee, which we later found can be waved if you organize your Zambian activities from outside Zambia through a tour or safari company. Then we needed a ride from the border to Livingston. There were plenty of trucks ...
Bovu Island and Mr. John
This is a top pick! ... the ground was sand and I knew I was on an island. But, no, just on the Zambezi River. We were to go back to mainland Zambia for a few hours of plant walking with an elder of the Tokoleza tribe, Mr. John. One of the Bovu Island staff, Godfrey, would be ...
Victoria Falls and to the Middle of the River
This is a top pick! ... two groups. Bovu Island is an idyllic little (1 km x .5 km) island in the middle of the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, though it is officially Zambian. Frank knows the Euro-Botswanan owners who run an incredible little resort there. One of ...
Rafting on Zambezi river
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Oct 16, Rafting on Zambezi river, below Vic Falls, Zambian side "I had not enough time to take a breath of air that I was plunged again under water... everything went dark and I knew I was at least 2m below the water... by then, ...
Thanksgiving in Africa
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Oct 6, Thanksgiving dinner "I thank Duncan for his jokes and his sarcasm" laughs Roman at the dinner table, "if you don't know how to make knots, do lots"...had said Duncan as Roman was getting frustrated at removing a clothe ...
Finally viewing Vic Falls and microlites flights
This is a top pick! Woke up for what was to be a big day. Vic Falls viewing followed by an afternoon microlite flight. Vic Falls had been high on my itinerary of must dos since starting my trip, infact since I was young and had seen some of the fantastic paintings and ...
Zambia - South Luangwa
This is a top pick! We spent the last couple days doing game drives in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park. Just before we arrived at the park, we decided to visit a batik textile factory for a tour and some shopping. Our tour leader figured it might also be a good place ...
Full up for Easter Friday - Jollyboys saves day
This is a top pick! ... and a nice early start with a trip to the bank, a coffee before heading back to the bus station. Lusaka, the capital of Zambia seemed like a nice city and with some affluence. I even spotted a subway, things are also a little more expensive than ...
Safari in park
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Oct 3, Safari in South Luangwa National Park The road to get to the park from Chipata is only 135kms but it took us 3 ½ hours…it is so bad… except for the first part which is paved…the rest is in construction ...
Feeding time for the crocs
This is a top pick! ... , the 3 Danes I also met in the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. Found out one of the reasons that evening why the Zambia is quite expensive. The election are in September and typically all the previous elections in Zambia have been disasterous. In the ...
I always thought Canadians were nice people
This is a top pick! ... best bus I'd taken in the whole of Africa. It surprised me as my Lonely Planet guide book had mentioned that travel in Zambia could be a nightmare. Oh well better this way around than thinking the transport was good and it turning out crap. There was ...
Chipata
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas... We stayed at Dean's Hill view lodge, in Chipata 30 Sept, Chipata, Zambia The route from Viphya plateau to the Zambian border is high up and very dry... Malawi seems to be so poor to me compared to what I remember 25 years ago! ...
From South Luangwa to Chirundu on Zambezi river
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Oct 5th, From South Luangwa to Chirundu, on Zambezi river We stayed in Petuake (Chimwemwe lodge) and then at Zambezi breezers camp, near Chirundu. The 900kms drive took 2 long days through dry land and hills...though I must ...
Serious animals!
This is a top pick! ... tell you about in her colorful stories; she'll paint a far more vivid picture than I can! So next we are off through Zambia. First a quick stop in Chipata to catch a bus the next morning to the capital city of Lusaka. After spending the night in ...
Merry Christmas
This is a top pick! ... . The three of us drove from Gabs (in the south east) to Kasane (right up in the north east at the border between, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe). It took us 9 ½ hours, with Erin and I doing most of the driving on roads full of potholes, that ...
When wheels fall off and boats chug on
This is a top pick! ... so-called wheels had also fallen off the Lake Tanganyika ferry, the MV Liembe, delaying its departure to southern Tanzania and Zambia for a week while a replacement alternator was bused in from central Tanzania. A week in Kigoma could and should be fine ...
Lusaka to Dar es Salaam
This is a top pick! ... compartments next to us all contained 'drivers', whose job entailed picking up bare-bones truck chassis' and driving them back to Zambia. I found out their journey took a week and they drove with helmets on, Mad Max style, sometimes in 20-vehicle ...
The invasion of the elephants, by Fabyan
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas Oct 2, South Luangwa National Park, The invasion of the elephants, by Fabyan We stayed at Croc valley camp. We arrived at the Crocodile Valley camp, right beside the river where there are hippos that grumble at night, crocodiles ...
Zambia - Victoria Falls
This is a top pick! ... our group on his jump. Normally it costs $65 US for a visa into Zimbabwe, but as the Vic falls bridge straddles both Zambia and Zimbabwe, we thought we'd sneak across to Zim... and back... Our overland group decided to go on a dinner/booze ...
Buses, Falls and Good Old-Fashioned Religion!
This is a top pick! ... , each ride started with a rather unique blessing that I'll leave it to Katie tell you about! The countryside of Zambia is rather sparsely populated and dotted with the occasional small village. Most residential dwellings in villages are round, mud ...
Mpulungu to Chitipa
This is a top pick! ... "there is transport to Malawi; the roads are good". At 09:30 I jumped off the train in Nakonde, the border town between Zambia and Tanzania. They recommended I jump out at Nakonde and guaranteed me I could get to Chitipa, the Malawian border town ...
Mission Improbable
This is a top pick! ... 's tone that might have warned us. But I'm on a mission; to photograph a suspension bridge just outside Jimbe, on the Zambia-Angola border near the source of great Zambezi river, for a calendar my father's advertising agency is producing. By head-office's ...
The Longcut to Kabompo
This is a top pick! ... We reach the checkpoint early on, and Bwalya speculates that somewhere in the area is one of the backwater barracks favoured by Zambia's old military establishment. Later we see signs of the refugee camps where many Angolans still live, waiting to be--or ...
Northern Road Trip 2
This is a top pick! ... and the Chocolate Factory" name, Mpulungu is on the southern shore of Lake Tanganyka and is the only port in land-locked Zambia. The road to town holds all the promise of a great cottage adventure; long, remote, and winding through hills and valleys. ...
Northern Road Trip 3
This is a top pick! ... in North America is yet another tragic but not-unlikely incident in a country where life, even young life, is cheap. Zambia's president, Levy Mwanawas, didn't even attend the mass funeral that followed, sending his wife and the vice-president, who in a ...
Western Road Trip 4
This is a top pick! On that night in Kaoma Bwalya asked me for money, a "loan payable" he called it. I gave him the 100,000K (about $24) but found the request awkward and strange. After all, he was carrying most of the money for the trip. We went out and I forgot all about ...
Mean Streets
This is a top pick! ... and armed robberies are not rare here; in fact, crime is the rule rather than the exception. It doesn't matter that Zambia is a peaceful country. Peace doesn't put food on the table, and poverty and desperation are endemic. While violent crime is ...
The President is Not a Cabbage
This is a top pick! ... cover-ups and party intrigue that have plagued Zambian politics in the past year. The stakes are certainly high for Zambia's top Bwana. With presidential elections are set for July 2006, and Mwanawasa seems intent on neutralizing all opposition. The ...