Zambia Travel Guide
Zambia Travel Guide
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Zambia Travel Guide

Zambia Travel Guide



This website contains sections of the 3rd Edition of Zambia: The Bradt Travel Guide, published in 2004. Currently we're busy transferring sections to this site – although this will take a few months to complete.

Chapters which are on the site are noted in bold below, and accessed by clicking on the left-side menu.

To read this guide in full, see its colour pictures and 40+ detailed maps (including over 300 GPS positions), and use its comprehensive index – click on the right panel on this page and buy a copy!

Meanwhile, the complete list of this guidebook's chapters is:

A personal introduction

1. Facts and Figures

2. History and Economy
Includes sections: History, Economy

3. People
Includes sections: Population, A note on 'tribes', African language groups, Culture

4. The Natural Environment
Includes sections: Physical environment, Flora and fauna, Conservation

5. Planning and Preparation
Includes sections: Getting there, Entry requirements, When to go, Money, What to take, Maps and navigation, Photography and optics, Vehicle hire, Organising a safari

6. Health and Safety
Includes sections: Health, Safety

7. In the Wilds
Includes sections: Driving, Bush camping, Walking in the bush, Canoeing, Minimum impact

8. Zambia Today
Includes sections: Cost of living, Getting around, Accommodation, Food and drink, What to buy, Organising and booking, Communications and media, Miscellaneous

9. Lusaka
Includes sections: Getting there and away, Orientation, Getting around, Where to stay, Where to eat, Entertainment and nightlife, Shopping, Banks and money, Communications, Information and addresses, What to see and do

10. Livingstone and Victoria Falls
Includes sections: History, Geology, Useful information, Livingstone, Victoria Falls (the town), What to see and do, Tour operators


11. Lake Kariba and the Lower Zambezi
Includes sections: From Livingstone to Lusaka, Lake Kariba, From Lusaka to Chirundu, Lower Zambezi Valley


12. The Luangwa Valley
Includes sections: The Great East Road, South Luangwa National Park, North Luangwa National Park, Luambe National Park, Lukusuzi National Park


13. Bangweulu Area
Includes sections: The three main towns, Kasanka National Park, Around Kasanka and Bangweulu, Lake Bangweulu and the wetlands, Around Mpika


14. Northern Zambia
Includes sections: The Great North Road, Lake Tanganyika, Kalambo Falls, Sumbu National Park, The road to Mweru Wantipa, From Mbereshi to Kawambwa and Mporokoso, Nyika Plateau National Park


15. The Copperbelt
Includes sections: Kapiri Mposhi, Kabwe, Ndola, Kitwe, Chingola


16. The Kafue River Basin
Includes sections: Towns around Kafue National Park, Kafue National Park, Lochinvar and Blue Lagoon National Parks


17. The Western Provinces
Includes sections: Southwestern Zambia, Barotseland, Northwestern Zambia


Appendix 1 Wildlife Guide
Appendix 2 Languages
Appendix 3 Further Reading


Please note that all sections of this guide to travel in Zambia remain the copyright of the author, Chris McIntyre, and the publisher, Bradt Publications. All rights reserved. No part of this text may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior consent.
Please feel free to link to this site; but do not copy from it.


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