South Luangwa Photos

A few weeks ago my family visited from Alaska and treated me to a five-day safari in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park. The park is world-renowned for its wildlife and I wanted to share some of the spectacular visuals that we we fortuante to experience. Unfortunately, internet (as always) limits space, but I hope you can get a taste from the few photos posted here. This is definitely a different Africa than our home in Malawi.

Morning on the Luangwa River. Home to crocodile, herons, and hundreds of hippos (Jesse's favorite animal). The hippos come out of the river to graze at night and we could here them munch on the grass no more that a few metres from our tent every night.

A baboon basks in the morning rays from high atop a tree.

An elephant gets a little curious about the land cruiser. A good portion of the park's elephants are tuskless due to a genetic mutation selected for by elephant ivory poaching.

A lioness descends from her arborial perch.

Jesse does his Farmer John imitation amidst a clearing of dead trees- a testament to the previously high elephant population that kills the trees by rubbing off their bark.


The colours of the remnants of water.
The park is entering the dry season which corresponds to the
tourist season since animals tend to cluster at easily viewed water holes.



A close-up of Nile cabbage, the main constituent of the marshes.


My favorite marsh inhabitant, the saddle-billed stork.
A close second is the crownded crane, unfortunately not pictured here.



Opps, forgot to look this one up in the bird book. I couldn't believe the number of species of birds that we saw and our guide ability to name a birds flying 100 metres away boarded on the supernatural.

Jesse examining a dead version of his favorite animal.

A giraffe recieving a neck-cleaning.

Shocked by the appearance of my flash, this chameleon posed perfectly.