Liuwa Plain
Feel the rhythm drummed by the hooves of migrating wildebeest, the wing beats of cranes taking flight, and the distant rumble of a thunderstorm on the horizon.
Regional Highlights
3,660 km2
A land unchanged by time, Liuwa Plain’s vast savannah has been protected for over 100 years, yet it’s one of Africa’s best-kept secrets. Gliding in a helicopter above its golden grasslands and shimmering lagoons you’ll touch down at the only permanent camp in the park.
Watch a flock of cranes swirl over a sea of wildflowers in the clear morning sun. Listen to the distant rumble of an afternoon thunderstorm gathering on the curved horizon. Take a deep breath and catch the scent of the long grass as a soft breeze whispers through it. Feel humbled amid the second-largest migration of wildebeest, thousands of zebra and oribi, hyena in clans of 50 or more, or a speeding cheetah teaching its cubs how to hunt.
Legend has it that Mambeti, a beloved daughter of the Lozi king’s favourite game warden, was reincarnated as the famed Lady Liuwa—matriarch of Liuwa’s lion pride. Now gone, Lady’s spirit lives on in this sublime untouched wilderness, watching over her growing prides.
GETTING THERE
DOMESTIC FLIGHTS
Flights by Proflight Zambia
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTSPRIVATE JET CHARTERSLIUWA PLAIN NATIONAL PARKLOWER ZAMBEZI NATIONAL PARKSOUTH LUANGWA NATIONAL PARK
GETTING THERE
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS
AIR NAMIBIA
Windhoek - Lusaka
EMIRATES
Dubai - Lusaka - Mfuwe
Dubai - Lusaka - Kalabo
Dubai - Lusaka - Royal Airstrip
ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES
Addis Ababa - Lusaka
KENYA AIRWAYS
Nairobi - Lusaka
MFUWE AIRSTRIP
Addis Abbaba - Lusaka
RWANDAIR
Kigali - Lusaka (2hr 20 mins)
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRLINES
Johannesburg - Lusaka
PRIVATE JET CHARTERSDOMESTIC FLIGHTS
GETTING THERE
PRIVATE JET CHARTERS
MADAGASCAR
Diego Suarez - Mfuwe
ZAMBIA
Johannesburg - Mfuwe
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTSDOMESTIC FLIGHTSBest guides in Africa
Award-winning all Zambian guiding team
History
Boasting one of the oldest conservation histories in Africa, Liuwa Plain was proclaimed a protected area in the early 1880s by the head of the Lozi tribe, King Lewanika.
Its 3,660 km2 of broad savannah are home to the second biggest wildebeest migration on the continent, a flourishing cheetah population, the famed Lady Liuwa lion pride, Africa’s densest concentration of endangered wattled cranes and other rare game. Yet it remains one of Africa’s greatest secrets. After running safaris from a more basic camp for a few years, Time + Tide King Lewanika opened in 2017.
The first permanent camp in the area and run entirely on solar, the lodge was conceived in collaboration with African Parks. Since 2003, AP has managed the national park in partnership with the Zambian Department of National Parks and Wildlife and the Barotse Royal Establishment, the monarchy of the Lozi people who live in and around the park.