AFRICAN TOURS
Caprivi National Park &
Liuwa Plains
TOUR INFORMATION
Duration
12 Days/11 Nights Camping
Format
Tented Accommodation
Next Tours
18 - 29 November 2026
Cost
R39 850 per person (2026)
Please Note for International Guests 🇿🇦✈️
An additional fee of US$145 per person applies.
This is due to higher conservation and park entry rates set by the national parks we visit, which differ for international travellers.
Thank you for understanding and supporting conservation efforts in South Africa.
Max Amount of Persons
Min 8 & Max 16 guests
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
Included:
3 meals a day from dinner day 1 to breakfast of day 12 (Day 4 own lunch at Katima Mulilo)
Guide & chef
All park fees
11 night’s accommodation
Tents & cutlery
Not included:
Vehicle costs for example fuel & border crossings.
Personal beverages and snacks.
Bedding & mattrasses.
Visums if required.
Key destinations:
This adventure concentrate on the Zambezi Region(Caprivi) of Namibia and South-Western Zambia. We will explore areas where most people don’t go. During the course of our travels through this wilderness, we visit 5 different national parks. In Namibia we visit Nkasa Rupara on the Linyanti River, Mudumu and Bwabwata(Horseshoe) on the Kwando River and in Zambia we visit the Sioma-Ngwezi and Liuwa Plains National Parks. The spectacular Ngonye Falls is the 2nd highest falls in the Zambezi River and a marvel to experience. It is wild camping with 4 of the big 5 animals in the area but with our comforts like ablutions and hot showers. The birding and photo opportunities are amazing as we traverse through forests, over flood plains and grasslands and enjoy, sunrise and sunset next to the rivers. Our last night we enjoy on the edge of Mongu town in Zambia.
TOUR PLAN
Day 1 & 2: Nkasa Rupara National Park
We start our journey at the Shell garage in Kongola from where it is about 90 minutes’ drive to our campsite. We settle in and enjoy the African sounds around the open fire.
The next day we spend in the Nkasa Rupara National Park, which terrain is similar to the Linyanti area of Botswana with the same animals like lions, leopard, elephants, cheetah, buffalo, wild dogs, red lechwe, reedbuck and many more.
For those interested, we can organize either, a boat cruise on the linyanti River or a night drive in a safari vehicle(at your own cost).
There are no fences and our campsite is open to the park and the animals are roaming free.
Hot showers(donkeys) and flush toilets.
Day 3: Bwabwata National Park (Horseshoe)
It is only about an hour’s drive to Mudumu National Park. This park is known for sable- and roan antelope and we will certainly look for them while doing game drives.
After lunch, we refuel and carry on to our next campsite Nambwa in Bwabwata Nat. Park. It is sand roads and a game drive to our camp on the western bank of the Kwando River, where we stay for 1 night.
We conduct game drives searching for wild dog, dwarf-mongoose and hopefully a honey badger.
Late afternoon we drive to the famous Horseshoe-bend area where we enjoy sunset with hippos and elephants. (We take our chairs with.)
It is quite a nice experience sitting out, while the animals come down to drink.
Hot showers(donkeys) and flush toilets.
Day 4 & 5: Sioma Camp
We exit the park near the town of Kongola and take the tar road to Katima Mulilo.
After an early and quick lunch we all go to Wenela border(Katima border) together to do our vehicle papers. This is always quite interesting.
From the Zambian town Sesheke at the border, it is 140km of tar to our camp on the Zambezi River.
They have wifi, with hot showers, flush toilets and a spectacular sunset.
After a leisurely wake up and breakfast we drive to the Ngonye Falls, the second highest in the Zambezi River. Here we will swim/sit in the rapids and enjoy a natural massage.
The rock pratincole’s, a summer visitor, are normally present on the rocks at the falls.
We will be back at camp for lunch and relax in the afternoon.
Day 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10: Liuwa Plains Kwalu | Katoyana
Today is our last shopping for the next 6 days. In Mongu there is a Shoprite for our needed groceries, fresh produce and ice.
We now turn West and cross the 50km wide Zambezi flood plains to Kalabo. Enroute we pass the winter residence of the Lozi king and his royal canoes, which is part of the colourful Kambuka ceremony.
At Kalabo we cross the Luwangina River and after a few sandy kilometers we sign into the Liuwa Plains National Park.
Our camps are rustic, with cold showers but with flush toilets. You must supply your own drinking water for 6 days. We sleep at Kwale in the South for 2 nights and 3 nights further North at Katoyana camp.
For the next few days we enjoy what the park has to offer, panoramic landscapes, wildebeest in their thousands and with luck the predators like wild dogs, lions and hyena’s.
Africa Parks is in charge of Liuwa Plains National Park and through wonderful conservation practices the park is doing well. Success stories are the wild dog, lion and hyena populations that have increased their numbers.
For the birders there are large numbers of wattle- and grey-crowned cranes and black-winged pratincoles are in flocks of 1000’s. Threatened water birds include slaty egrets and whiskered terns, which breed in Liuwa Plains.
Day 11: Mongu
After breakfast, we leave this beautiful, untouched wilderness and back-track to Kalabo and then Mongu.
We camp on the edge of town, facing west with a lovely sunset over the flood plains. We have normal 220v power and other amenities in camp.
It is also our last night together around the campfire.
Day 12: Katima Mulilo & Home
We cross the border to Katima Mulilo(cappuccinos and ice cream) and then greet each other, until the next adventure.
For those so inclined, can try tiger fishing (own cost).
