Zambia Travel Guide - Top Things To See

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• Watch the wildlife in the Kafue National Park, the second largest national park in the world. Noted for its beauty, the park is bisected by the Kafue River, which attracts hundreds of species of birds and offers good game fishing.

• Don't miss the astonishing Victoria Falls, on the southernmost edge of Zambia bordering Zimbabwe. They are the mightiest cataracts in the world - the 2.5km- (1.5-mile-) wide Zambezi River drops 100m (330ft) into a narrow chasm at a rate of 550 million litres every minute, with a spray that can be seen 30km (20 miles) away.

• See the attractions in the capital, Lusaka, including the Kabwata Cultural Village (devoted to the preservation of indigenous arts and crafts and displays of traditional dancing), the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the Munda Wanga Botanical Gardens and Zoo and the Lusaka National Museum.

• Visit the Copperbelt Museum in Ndola, an important commercial centre and the gateway to the mineral producing region of Zambia.

• Visit Kitwe, the second largest city in Zambia and a place that owes a lot of its importance to copper. See the Mindolo Dam which is 7km (4.5 miles) away and the Makwera Falls and Lake, located 9km (5.5 miles) from the city.

• Discover the discover the oldest copper mine in Zambia, in Luanshya,

• See what Livingstone, the ‘Tourist Capital of Zambia', has to offer - several luxury hotels, a casino, the Livingstone Museum, housing Livingstone memorabilia and anthropological exhibits, as well as the Railway Museum.

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