About this guide
Who's behind Visit Kafue?
Africa's second largest park, documented camp by camp, including the ones that have quietly closed.
Who writes this
This guide is written by someone who overlanded much of Africa in his own Land Cruiser with a rooftop tent, and for whom the national parks were what stayed. The information about them online was usually missing, wrong or years old: fees from three tariff sheets ago, camps that had closed, roads described by people who had never driven them.
So he started writing it down properly. This guide runs on the park authority's own tariff documents, on climate normals rather than brochure weather, and on what the camps tell us directly, with a date on every claim. Where we do not know something, the page says so.
Why we built this
Kafue is enormous, under-visited and badly documented online. This guide is independent of every camp and operator in it, which is why we can tell you that several widely-listed lodges no longer trade.
How we verify a camp exists
Fees come from the official schedules published through the Zambia Tourism Agency and the Kafue Park Operators Association, not from copied blog posts, and every fees page shows when we last checked it. Kafue needs that discipline: no 2026 tariff has been published anywhere and several widely repeated figures are simply wrong.
The same goes for the rest of the guide. Closed lodges are marked as closed, every rate carries a date, and where an operator publishes nothing it says rates on request. Wildlife claims follow African Parks and conservation-research sources.
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Our other guides
Kafue sits alongside South Luangwa and the Lower Zambezi in a small set of independent Zambian park guides, plus others further afield in Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Botswana.