Subject: Re: south luangwa walking safari

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Subject: Re: south luangwa walking safari

Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:21:26 +0000 (UTC)

("cowboyjakke" wrote in message
news:d85c72e1.0401120815.2ac8f9dd@posting.google.com...
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm planning to spend a month in southern africa this summer. I really
> want to do a walking safari (from camp to camp or something like that,
> not a 2 hour morningwalk...) and it looks to me that south luangwa
> park zambia is the place to do it, as the tour I'm on ends in Lusaka.
> Is there somebody that can recommend me a good company that's good
> value or can tell me if it's better to book in advance through
> internet, or book on the spot? I have approx a week in the beginning
> of august.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jan

It will be very hot in August.
I can recommend Sunvil who organised our trip to Zambia last year.
Robin Pope seems to be the main 'camp to camp' walking safari outfit (can be
booked via Sunvil).
We stayed at Remote Africa Safaris places - Tafika is their 'home base'
(they do half-day walks from there, and night drives); then you can walk to
one of their bush camps and stay a night or two and walk on to another one
for another night or two. The bush camps are in an area where there are no
roads, so you have to walk! However, they are, in a direct line, only about
20 mins from the main camp - but you take several hours over it!
I can thoroughly recommend Remote Africa, but they arent cheap and may not
be what you are looking for.
re the heat - we were there in early July and it was getting too hot to want
to be out walking at mid-day - they told us that as the season progresses,
you finish up getting up at 4.00 am to walk - but I think that is sept/oct.
If you are already going to be in Lusaka then Remote Africa can arrange your
travel to and from the camps. I dont know what the chances of being able to
get anything 'on the spot' - the lodges tend to be small, and the flights on
smallish aircraft so it might be dodgy.
see www.remoteafrica.com and http://www.sunvil.co.uk/sites/sunvil/

--
Rita Daggett

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