Liuwa Plain National Park

Liuwa is only known to a handful of people and has been visited by far fewer…this park, located on the very western border of Zambia, is one of the last undiscovered parks in Africa.

Famously difficult to access and only really accessible for a few months of the year, this open park features both huge numbers of wildebeest as well as some excellent bird life.

Getting into the park is quite tricky, with scheduled flights departing from Lusaka to Liuwa Plains (approx. 2 and a half hours) only operating on certain days of the week. There are only a couple of campsites in the park to stay in, and Norman Carr’s King Lewanika Lodge is the only, and most exclusive property in the national park.

Do see our best camps & lodges in Liuwa Plain National Park picks for 2026/27 on this page.

The best time to visit the Liuwa Plains is between June and November when the park is dry, and the grasses retain the moisture from the rains. The southern side of the plains become flooded between December and April, and this is what drives the wildebeest migration, as the herds move out of the woodlands to the north, on to the moist, open plains for grazing.

Do see our interactive best time to visit Liuwa Plain National Park guide on this page as well as on our parent guide to zambia page for more in-depth information on when to go.

Or call us on +44 1525 840 149. That’s what we’re here for.

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This allows us to completely tailor the property choices, costs and itinerary length to your needs…but we also understand that this is not always possible with the busy lives we all lead.

With this in mind, we have also put together a safari finder tool that should help you to narrow down the initial stages at which point we can jump in to “round off the edges” as it were.

Alternatively please feel free to › send us an email with your timings, group size and rough likes and dislikes and we can get the ball rolling.

As much as AI has changed the way we all approach our lives, there is still no substitute for picking up the phone and having a chat through the options with one of us on USA +1-917-336-2937

This allows us to completely tailor the property choices, costs and itinerary length to your needs…but we also understand that this is not always possible with the busy lives we all lead.

With this in mind, we have also put together a safari finder tool that should help you to narrow down the initial stages at which point we can jump in to “round off the edges” as it were.

Alternatively please feel free to › send us an email with your timings, group size and rough likes and dislikes and we can get the ball rolling.