Situated on the south-western edge of Lake Bangweulu, and with a surface area of 450 square kilometres, Kasanka National Park is one of Zambia’s smallest national parks. Run by the Kasanka Trust charity in partnership with the local community – this park is the only privately managed park in Zambia.
Brimming with rivers, lakes, beautiful miombo woodlands, swamp forests, wetlands, dambos, lagoons and meadows, this picturesque park is able to support a unique and wide variety of fauna and flora. One rare species commonly found here is the sitatunga antelope, but the park’s biggest wildlife attraction is the annual fruit-bat migration.
Every year, approximately 10 million fruit bats make their way from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Kasanka National Park, where they take up residence in a small forest.
This is the largest mammal migration on earth, and seeing the fruit bats cover the sky at sundown is a unique Zambian experience.
