Green Safaris Photo Tour x9 - Photographic tour with Matt Armstrong

Welcome to Zambia! On arrival you will meet up with the rest of the group and your tour leader Matt Armstrong and be transferred by road to Kafue National Park. Here you will stay at Ila Safari Lodge. for three nights of your tour where you will start your practical and class room teachings from Matt. 

Ila’s location on the banks of the Kafue River in Kafue National Park is wonderfully convenient. Situated just a one hour flight from Lusaka’s airport or a three hour drive from Zambia’s capital city, Ila Safari Lodge is the perfect base to roam deeper into the Kafue National Park. 

This morning you will have a game drive transfer  head to Busanga Flood Plains, situated in the northern part of the Kafue National Park in Zambia, one of the most unique wilderness areas Africa has to offer. You will spend the next three nights at Chisa Busanga, one of the truly amazing Birds-Nests which completely blend in with nature. 

Chisa Busanga Camp is a new intimate bush camp located on a beautiful island in the heart of the Busanga Plains, in the north of the Kafue National Park. The name of the camp comes from its unique architecture, and consists of 4 amazing tree houses built in the shape of birds-nests, that look out over the massive floodplains and dambos, teeming with wildlife and birds.

You will then head to the famous valley of the leopards, South Luangwa National Park, to stay at the gorgeous Shawa Luangwa Camp. You will today be transferred to Chunga Airstrip for your flight to Mfuwe Airport, via Lusaka, You will be met and transferred into South Luangwa National Park to stay at  Shawa Camp for the next 4 nights. 

Located in the heart of the Lupanda GMA, on the banks of the Luangwa River, it is ideally located to explore both the Park and the Nsefu sector. There is abundant wildlife and very few other lodges in the area so you should have all the views to yourself! Enjoy some excellent big cat sightings as well as huge herds of elephants, pods of hippo, plenty of birds and the famous endemic Thornicroft giraffe.

After your great adventure in South Luangwa, you will today head to Likoma Island in Malawi. In the morning you will be transferred to Mfuwe Airport to check in for your flight to Likoma Airport,via Lilongwe where you will pass through immigration. You will be met and transferred to Kaya Mawa Lodge. You will stay here for the last four nights of your tour. 

Likoma Island for your last few nights of island paradise, soaking in the Malawian sunshine and enjoying island life. Each unique room is built into and dotted around the water’s edge. Relax with a cocktail, soak in those views, have a massage, or take to the lake and the island to explore the underwater world and Malawian culture with a little more vigour!

End of your tour! After breakfast you will be transferred to Likoma Airport for your flight to Lilongwe International Airport for your onward journey.