Hotels have booked up around prime viewing locations, including the capital Lusaka, the Luangwa game reserve and Kafue National Park.

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Despite being the largest national park in Zambia and the second largest in Africa (after Mudumu National Park in Namibia), Kafue National Park is not well known.

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Part of the somewhat neglected southern stretch of Kafue National Park, though, is dominated by Lake Itezhi-Tezhi, an inland sea created by the dammed Kafue River that has given rise to superbly scenic, land- and water-based wildlife-watching experiences.

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