Liuwa Plain Wildebeest Migration Safari

Overview

Far in Zambia's remote west lies one of Africa's last great secrets — Liuwa Plain, a vast, treeless grassland that hosts the continent's second-largest wildebeest migration. This six-day expedition takes you deep into Barotseland to witness tens of thousands of blue wildebeest sweeping across the endless plain, trailed by hyena clans, cheetah and the plains' famous lions. Staying at the only permanent lodge in the park, you have this staggering wilderness almost entirely to yourself.

Liuwa Plain National Park is one of the most remote and least-visited reserves in Africa, a horizon-to-horizon sea of grass dotted with palm islands. Its wildebeest migration — around 30,000 animals — peaks with the first rains in November, one of the great untamed spectacles on earth. Beyond the herds, Liuwa is famous for enormous clans of spotted hyena, huge flocks of migratory birds, wide-open skies and a profound, humbling sense of space found almost nowhere else.