Country Info
- Lusaka
- Capital
- Kwacha (ZMK)
- Currency
- 9,770,199
- Population
- ZM
- Country Code
Lusaka Slideshow
Top Hotels in Lusaka
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Taj Pamodzi Hotel Lusaka
60 reviews -
Intercontinental Lusaka
50 reviews
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Holiday Inn Ridgeway Lusaka
47 reviews -
Protea Hotel Cairo Road Lusaka
14 reviews -
Protea Hotel Lusaka
33 reviews
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Chrismar Hotel Lusaka
13 reviews
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Pr Lusaka
33 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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Mulungushi Village Lusaka
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Kanyemba Lodge Lusaka
14 reviews -
Kuomboka Backpackers Hostel Guest House Lusaka
5 reviews
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The Lusaka Hotel
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Chongwe River House Lusaka
12 reviews
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Chita Lodge Lusaka
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Lusaka
Travel Blogs from Lusaka, Zambia
I always thought Canadians were nice people
This is a top pick! ... a while to fill up so we didn't get on the road until 7:30. We were trying to get the 10am bus on the Zambia side of the border to Lusaka, but this wasn't looking now. I met a nice guy on this minibus who had left from Blantyre at 1am the same morning ...
Western Road Trip 4
This is a top pick! ... Brian and I to work on the sign. I had been doing the math and was now deeply suspicious of Bwalya's request for cash. In Lusaka we were issued plenty of money for the trip, money for diesel, labour, materials, contingency, and a decent per diem. I ...
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 ...
Northern Road Trip 6
This is a top pick! ... thought was bronchitis. The public health system told her she was fine and to go home and rest. At the private clinic in Lusaka I was barely coughing or wheezing but was given a chest X-ray, blood tests and three different pills, to the tune of ...
Random Passages
This is a top pick! ... the telling has done little to curb my fears. * * * From the Miscellaneous section of the Classifieds in the Post, 'Zambia's Leading Newspaper': "An astrologer herbalist why not try him welcome Dr. N. Magaga from East Africa He is here to pay ...
Chilling in Lusaka
This is a top pick! ... me a hard time for taking advantage, but it wasn't so bad since the distance was less than a kilometer. Finding taxis in Lusaka is not a terribly easy thing to do unless you know where they hide, which naturally we did not. Travis went ...
A Sigh for Africa
This is a top pick! ... had many questions about politics in Zambia, my opinions about Malawi, and my general experience in Africa. Before I left Zambia to travel to Botswana, Johannesburg and Malawi, I'd have painted a very different and disparaging picture of the country ...
Fear of Darkness
This is a top pick! ... impossible to know how long the blackout will last. It shouldn't be occurring at all. With many hydroelectric power sources, Zambia supplies electricity to Zimbabwe, Congo and East Africa. In places like the Kafue River and Lake Kariba, major power ...
Bandas and Bibles
This is a top pick! ... like the Piper. White faces are a rare site in Freedom, a town of some 500 people, 20 kilometres south of the capital, Lusaka. This is a place that tourists never see, let alone many better-off Zambians. It's a hard-scrabble, dusty village, alive with ...
Zambia
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Zambia in our entry from Cape Town, South Africa entitled 'Cape Town at Last!!!'. Cheers, K & ...
Luxury bath in Lusaka
This is a top pick! ... 5.30am that morning when my alarm had sounded in my little tin hut at Usa River I hasn't quite visualized arriving in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia quite like this. I was more worried that the driver, Abel who I had booked through the school would turn ...
The Day After
... . Also, the sides of the truck didn't close properly and new bolts were needed. We asked them to stop at a hardware store in Lusaka on the way out to Nalubanda, but Kambani told me that even though they say they will, they won't. They don't care. ...
last day of holiday
... full time at the orphanage House of Martha. Here they are with us at this very nice resort where incidentally the president of Zambia was just here last night. We had a full buffet breakfast this morning and Peter cut a bite of his sausage and ...
First days in Zambia
Wow! We made it to Africa yesterday morning after the 10 hour place ride. I'm writing to you from the Kilamanjaro Cafe in Lusaka -- the Zambian capital. As soon as I stepped off the plane I couldn't wipe the enormous smile off my face. I think in some ...
Death of the trailer!
... set up camp at Bridge Camp which is about half way between S Luangwa and Livingstone. We weren't sure if we would get as far as Lusaka or we would stay here, but because of this mornings events we have stayed here - a good choice as we could set up in ...
visiting schools
... . No running water, very little electricity, cement block houses. The school is a paradise compared to its surroundings. Children in Zambia are only required to go to school until 7th grade. The De Vos school has excellent teachers and the students in ...
Malawi is where my heart belongs
... just really getting a taster & not getting to know them like I did Malawi, which is a bit frustrating. Yesterday we crossed into Zambia. It chucked it down for a few hours & us in the cheap seats at the back of the truck got a bit ...
Lusaka Part II
... at someone's house, everything looks the same, and barely anything is built above two stories. Because it's so thinly populated, Zambia has a ton of immigrants. The main groups really are Arabs and Indians, which makes for an interesting mix, when you ...
Speechless.
Have you ever had a fall in love moment? Where your body detaches from your current surroundings, you realize just how amazing something is, and then suddenly you're crying? That's what I have every time I look at these babies. Every ...
Day 14 - Saturday, 25 November, 2006
My head hit the pillow last night and I was out like a light. All of that excitement in one day. It was too much to handle! Saturday, day 14 and back to the reality of the ashram. I don't even have the will to write anything ...
Gaining a better understanding
To start off our day today me and Josie and our new interact group logged onto Skype and after a very long waiting process, we managed to talk to the Wye Valley Interact group and see them on web cam! Everyone here was very excited!! Although we couldn't ...
Not all white people are rich!
Today we had a girls day out. Mr Walima dropped Esther, Sarah, Isabel and Precious off at Mulungushi Village this morning at around 11 and from there we went to Kabwata cultural village. This is similar to a market, although the 'shops' are inside wooden ...
Day 18 - Wednesday, 29 November, 2006
Today was a tough day to get through. I was really tired in the morning asana class so after a few sun salutations I left the class and came back to the dorm to sleep. I really need it. In my dreams I was still here at the ashram and ...
Day 6 - Friday, 17 November, 2006
Today has been an amazing day! I have had so much fun! Today is Friday and Friday is a good day because I get a break from Bootcamp! I had a slight lie in today and missed satsang. I may get into trouble for that tomorrow, but ...
World AIDS Day
... to do art as work, even if it was just for 5 days. Everything took place in an artists' workshop within the Showgrounds in Lusaka for several months. For World AIDS Day on December 1st, the maze was put on display in the Henry Tayali art gallery. In ...
Musungus
... and there is no shortage of dust flying around. It also means we need water constantly to re-moisten our concrete and mortar. In Zambia water fetching is "women's work" so we are tugging and yanking on huge 5 ft tall drums of water that we fill rom a ...