Zambia Tourism & Travel #1 Awesome Guide

With this indispensable resource, you can plan travel and visits to some of the best attractions Zambia has to offer.

Our app collates carefully curated content on:

Unique facts about Zambia
General travel advice, including GPS guides to various attractions
Featured accommodation and booking links
Establishments serving traditional cuisine
Zambia’s culture, heritage & traditions
Natural monuments
Conservation and nature reserves
Animals found in Zambia, including endemic species
Crafts and other local products
Banking & telecoms information

Zambia tourism & travel guide

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Consider it your one-stop shop for the most accurate information on all things needed for an enjoyable experience in Zambia. We aim to create linkages between locals and travelers, and various attractions and facilities. Our intention is to expand your knowledge of Zambia and encourage preservation of its culture, heritage & traditions. Opening everyone to amazing experiences is another key objective of this app.

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Incredible experiences

Home of the Mighty Victoria Falls, Kasanka Bat Migration and diverse wildlife. Zambia is full of amazing sites and wonderful experiences.

Zambia’s unique experiences

Zambia boasts of many activities including white water rafting, fishing, motorsports, music festivals, traditional ceremonies, and massive animal migrations. It is home to unique flora and fauna, such as the Thornicroft giraffe. Enjoy Zambia and other experiences that are well-known but often unseen, including:

Monuments

Mbala Surrender Monument, where the last surrender by German forces happened, ending WWI.
Mwela Rock Paintings National Monument is one of the densest concentrations of granite art sites anywhere in Africa, with over 1000 paintings recorded in the rock outcrops.

Animals

World’s largest mammal migration. Migration of over 10 million fruit bats (Kansanka National Park)
Densest population of leopards in Africa (South Luangwa National Park)
World’s largest concentration of Hippos (Luangwa Valley)
Second largest wildebeest migration (Liuwa Plain National Park)

Water bodies

World’s largest Water Falls (Victoria falls)
- One of the World’s Natural 7 wonders (Victoria falls)
World’s largest Man-made lake (Lake Kariba)
World’s second Deepest lake (Lake Tanganyika)
World’s longest freshwater lake (Lake Tanganyika)
African’s second deepest river (Kabompo)
Africa’s second-longest river (Chambeshi)
Africa’s Fourth longest river (Zambezi)
Africa’s Largest wetlands (Bangweulu wetlands)

Geo-data

World’s only point where 4 Countries meet (Kazungula)
World’s shortest international land Boundary Between Zambia and Botswana

The weather is generally warm to hot which makes it an ideal destination to enjoy the tropical sun in the various recreational and tourist sites. Zambia is renowned for being a peaceful country with friendly local people who readily embrace cultural diversity and with such a vast array and myriad of tourism products, it is guaranteed that exploring these various sites will be an adventure you will definitely enjoy.

World Heritage Site

Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls

These are some of the most beautiful waterfalls on this planet and are considered one of the seven natural wonders of the world. They are the world’s greatest sheet of falling water.

The Zambezi River, which is more than 2 kilometers wide at this point, thunders down a succession of basalt canyons, erupting in an iridescent mist visible from more than 20 kilometers away.

Heritage Tourism

Chipata

Copperbelt

Eastern

Luapula

Lusaka

Chakeluka Archaeological Site: Lusaaka before Lusaka

Chakeluka/ Twickenham Road Archaeological Site, Chakeluka Road, Olympia Park, Lusaka. Evidence of the transition from the Early Iron Age (EIA) to the Later Iron Age (LIA), in the region, comes from this site. This is another easy-to-access Lusaka heritage site, behind the popular Manda Hill Mall.

Alymer May Cemetery

It was opened in 1922 and named after Dr. Aylmer, the country’s first chief medical officer. It was officially closed in 1958, although there have been some burials after that. It was a burial site for the English, Jews, and members of the Dutch Reformed, and Roman Catholic churches. It is the only public cemetery with a chapel erected on a grave; the grave of Audrey Mary Elizabeth Murray. The Murray Memorial Chapel was built in 1928.

Zesco Cooling Tower

Located between Great East, ZESCO and Sadzu roads, Lusaka. It is Lusaka’s first major source of thermal power, opened in 1943 and closed in 1970. It cost an estimated £60, 000 to construct. Loc@tion

Njanji Commuter Building

It was built in 1906 as a railway station, making it one of the earliest surviving buildings in Lusaka. White passengers bought their tickets in the foyer inside, while black Africans used the small window in front of the building. An easy-to-access Lusaka heritage site, right in the centre of the CBD, next to the junction of Heros Pl and Sapele Ave.

EW Tarry’s Building

Completed in 1927 and used as an agricultural merchant’s shop (machinery and fertilisers) and has an important place in Lusaka’s agricultural history. It was one of the first shops on Cairo road and is located at the junction of Cairo and Kalundwe roads, In the central business district.

Old Fisher House Plot 109

It was built in 1909, at the Cairo and Chiparamba roads junction, it is one of Lusaka’s earliest surviving buildings. It was once called Fisher’s complex but is now called Limbe shopping complex.

Lusaka Miller’s House

The current location of the National Milling Company Limited. It is located near to the north end of Cairo Road, in the central business district.

Cairo Road Historic Garden

As part of Lusaka’s development programme, trees were planted in 1921 and 1994, along the city’s main thoroughfare. The trees divide the wide dual carriageway, Cairo road.

Marrapodi House Plot 294

The first residential house in Lusaka was the residence of Giovanni Marrapodi. He was an Italian contractor working on the railway line. It is currently a restaurant and was built in 1921.

Marrapodi Kiln

The Kiln was used from 1919 to 1922, for manufacturing lime for industrial use. Operations ceased soon after the death of its founder, Mr. Govianni Marrapodi.

Lusaka Hotel

Originally called the Counsell’s hotel, it was the first hotel in the city of Lusaka, opened in 1912. It is located on Cairo Road in the central business district. Its main entrance has been moved from Cairo road to Katondo street as part of the hotel’s redevelopment and refurbishment.

Old Lusaka Boys School

Established in 1910, it was the first government school in Lusaka, for children of European farmers. It is located on Dedan Kimathi road, the site originally established as a European school, in 1908, by the Dutch Reformed church.

When Lusaka girls’ school was opened in 1939, it ceased to be a co-education school and became a boys-only school. The buildings now house the National Heritage Conservation Commission’s East Central Region and Headquarters.

Old Post Office

Located at the Katondo street and Freedom way junction, in the central business district, it served as the first post office in Lusaka. It was opened in 1933. It is being used as a post office, again, after many years as a secondary school.

Former Dutch Reformed Church

It is a depiction of Dutch architecture and is located on the Great North road, villa Elizabertha, and build in 1933. The residence, however, was built earlier in 1926.

1932 House No. 110D

Historic depiction of Dutch architecture in Zambia, it is also located on the Great North Road, villa Elizabertha. It was built in 1932.

Former Charter House

The building currently housing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and located at the intersection between Independence avenue and Haile Selassie road. It was used by the British South African Company (BSAC), responsible for management and administration of Northern Rhodesia, up to 1924.

Kabwata Roundaveles

Now Kabwata Cultural Village where hand carvings, crafts and curios can be bought, it was part of 500 round one-roomed houses with thatched roofs. The artists in the village stem from all the provinces in Zambia. The cultural village is located on Burma Road, off Independence Avenue, in “Kabwata”, named after Chief Lusaaka’s son.

Old Secretariat / Old National Assembly

Also known as the Old Secretariat. It is located along Independence Avenue, at what in now Cabinet Office, opposite the Presidential Park memorial site. It was built in 1932 and housed colonial and post-colonial assemblies until 1967 when the current Parliament building at Manda Hill was opened.

Chilenje House National Monument

Lusaka was occupied by Dr. K. D. Kaunda, Zambia’s first republican president from January 1960 to December 1962, from where he directed the struggle for independence. Dr. Kaunda officially opened the monument in October 1968. Two exhibitions are available:

Personal effects, furniture, and utensil, of the Kaunda’s
History of Lusaka from the earliest time to independence, 1964

The Land Rover used by Dr. Kaunda and colleagues during the independence struggle is also available on the site. This is a popular Lusaka heritage site that should be visited by all that come to Lusaka city.

Chikumbi Freedom Camp

About 20 kilometres outside Lusaka. It was the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) headquarters in Zambia. The Chikumbi Massacre happened on 19th October 1978, killing and injuring almost 1000 people. Ian Smith’s Rhodesian air force fighter planes dropped conventional 1,000-pounders, golf bombs, and Alpha ‘bouncing’ bombs on a pass-out parade.

Oliver R. Tambo National Monument

Muchinga

Northern

North-western

Kabompo HouseMutanda Falls Heritage SiteKamusongolwa KopjePolish War MemorialLake Chibesha Heritage SiteNyambwezu FallsKifubwa National MonumentMöir and Bell National MonumentZambezi Source National MonumentMpongwe Fortified Village

Southern

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