Adventure

Adventure activities in Zambia are numerous and really get the heart pumping.

Adventure activities

Adrenaline junky activities include:

Abseiling
Bungee jumping
Flying fox
Helicopter flights
Hiking adventure
Gorge swing
Kayaking
Microlight flights
Motorsports (Zambia Motor Sports Association)
Under waterfall spray
Water sports
Walking safaris
Zipline

The activities are available across the country. The activities both in built-up cities and also in isolated locations that can require hiking to access. Places like Livingstone, the tourist capital, offer a high number of these activities in a small area. This is more efficient to, therefore, visit the tourism locations like Livingstone, Kariba, and Samfwa.

Rafting on the Zambezi

Rafting on the Zambezi is truly an adventure of a lifetime. The Mighty Zambezi river is never short of mesmerising outdoor experiences for its visitors that range from beautiful natural bank sceneries full over different types of wildlife that form part of kits ecosystem to thrilling adrenaline packed sporting activities such as white-water rafting. When you visit Livingstone town in Zambia on your holiday, vacation or work, the fun does not just end at seeing the magnificent Victoria Falls.

The Boiling Pot

The Boiling Pot, accessible only from the Zambian side, is the first rapid after the Victoria Falls hence its serves as an introduction to the fun-filled adventure that awaits you as you run down the river. It is, therefore, the point at which rafts and kayaks launched unto the water of the mighty Zambezi river. The Boiling Pot is the starting point of the Batoka Gorge which lies just below the Victoria Falls where the Zambezi River plunges down a height of over 100 metres into the gorge.

The name “Boiling Pot” is derived from the movement that the water from the Falls makes as it enters the narrow entrance of the gorge and hitting the sides of the gorge walls in a circular motion just like water boiling in a pot. Since the Boiling Pot is the launching point for the rafting and kayaking adventure on the Zambezi at the Batoka Gorge site, adrenaline enthusiastic visitors at this point given guidance and lessons on how to puddle along the rapids, especially for first-timers.

Depending on the adventure package you pick for navigating the Batoka Gorge, some packages offer the visitors lunch at a spot located at the foot of the Victoria Falls. The spot offers visitors a rare view of the Falls from the bottom of the 110-metre-high curtain of water falling on the Zambezi. However, this spot is only accessible at times when the water levels of the Zambezi river are low.

Fishing and angling adventure

Zambia is a great destination for fishing and angling. There are several great destinations across the country with different fish sought out by anglers:

Bream: Many species found in most of the water bodies in Zambia. Kafue river, alone, has 13 bream species.
Cornish Jack: Found in Lake Tanganyika, the Zambezi river and Luangwa river. It is a weakly electric fish, which is a nocturnal group hunter that resembled the European pike.
Kafue Pike: Found in Kafue River and Upper Zambezi. They are predatory freshwater characin and large-sized gamefish.
Tigerfish: Found in Lake Kariba, Lake Tanganyika and the Zambezi river. They are extremely voracious and predaceous freshwater sport fishes.
Vundu: Found in Lake Kariba, Lake Tanganyika and downstream Zambezi river. They are large air-breathing catfish.
Nkupi: Found in the deep pools below the Victoria falls. They are the largest cichlids in the world.