Zambia Travel Guide - Zambia Safaris Packages

The second-deepest, largest of the lakes of eastern Africa with the longest freshwater by volume, in the world after Siberia's Lake Baikal in Russia. It lies in four countries' territories: a little in each of Burundi and Zambia, and more than 40 percent in each of Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania.

The damming of the Zambezi River which was completed in the year 1961 led to the formation of the largest man-made world famed lake Kariba in Zambia. This was done due to the great need of massive hydroelectric power for the growing industries of Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Zambezi is best known as the fourth longest river in Africa which rises in northwestern Zambia, flows south across eastern Angola and western Zambia to the border of Botswana, then turns east and forms the Zambia-Zimbabwe border. It then crosses central Mozambique and empties into the Mozambique Channel at Chinde. About 2,200 mi (3,540 km) long, it is navigable in three long stretches,

The Victoria Falls also known as Mosi-oa-Tunya constitutes one of the most impressive natural wonders in Zambia and the smoke that thunders and the Falls are remarkable. They are located 10km from Livingstone, and 480km south of Lusaka. There are higher waterfalls elsewhere in the world, but none equal the grandeur of the waters of the Zambezi river as they tear headlong to over 1.7km wide expanse down into the chasm 110 metres below