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Your journey interweaves Livingstone’s routes and experiences into a fairly conventional safari itinerary of the kind that is described in the various modules encountered in our Create Your Own Safari section. It begins on your arrival at Livingstone International airport, with a transfer to Tongabezi Lodge which is situated at the edge of the Upper Zambezi river, some 20 minutes’ drive from the airport, although there is also the option of travelling via the Mosi oa Tunya National Park, giving you your one opportunity to see (white) rhino in Zambia during this brief game drive (not to mention many other species, including multitudes of elephant). At Tongabezi you can relax in the unashamed luxury of one of their riverside cottages or thatched houses, recovering from your overnight flight out to Zambia. An evening river cruise, accompanied by sundowners, completes your first day.

On the following morning you will be taken by boat to Livingstone Island, situated right on the lip of the Falls themselves, approaching this wonder of the natural world travelling by exactly the same route as did David Livingstone (although he travelled by makoro, or native canoe), when he first discovered it. After partaking of a light lunch on the Island , you will then be transferred to the Zambezi Sun Hotel, where you will spend your second night. From the Zambezi Sun the Falls are only a few minutes’ walk away, and during the next 24 hours you will have ample opportunity to explore the awesome, and unspoilt, splendour of the Falls and their surrounding area. On the following day you will transfer to Songwe Village Camp for your final night in the Livingstone area. En route you will visit Chief Mukuni’s village, and other locations also visited by Livingstone, and on the following morning, prior to your early afternoon flight out, you can visit the colourful Maramba market.

From Livingstone your flight takes you to the Lower Zambezi National Park, where you will follow the course of the Lower Zambezi downstream to its confluence with the Luangwa River, much as did Livingstone, spending two nights at Chongwe River Camp, one at Sausage Tree Camp, one at Kulefu Camp, and two at Redcliff Camp, before flying out from the Kulefu airstrip to Mfuwe airport, for the South Luangwa National Park. Activities that you can undertake here are described in our section entitled Zambezi Safaris, located in the Create Your Own Safari section of the website. Whilst staying in the Lower Zambezi there is also the optional opportunity to spend three nights in a magical tented bush camp located away from the river, in the heart of the Park, which recreates the atmosphere of a true Edwardian era safari camp – somewhat after Livingstone’s time, true, but the closest that you’re going to get to actually experiencing how he lived and travelled.

Your journey then concludes in the South Luangwa National Park, viewing exactly the same sort of game, habitats etc that Livingstone would have seen, and visiting the precise spot where he crossed the Luangwa river during his ill-fated final expedition. Here you will stay at Tafika Lodge for two nights, before journeying on foot to their Chikoko Tree bush camp, for a further two nights, before returning to Mfuwe and onward to Lusaka at the end of your journey. South Luangwa is Zambia ’s prime game viewing area, and the home of the African walking safari - a memorable conclusion to an epic journey. A further discussion of these two activities may be found in the Game Viewing Safaris and Classic Walking Safaris modules of our Create Your Own Safari section.

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