Zambia is a big country as large as France, Switzerland, Austria and Hungary combined, covering some 750,000 square kilometers and lying in the tropical belt on South Central Africa, 10 to 18 degrees South of the equator. Being on a fairly high plateau, averaging 1,300m above sea level, the climate is very temperate with little humidity. The country is landlocked, but has many lakes and rivers with beaches and water sports to be enjoyed in uncrowded surroundings. Indeed the unspoiled nature of Zambia is perhaps its greatest tourist asset. Rich in scenery and wildlife, Zambia today has become the tourist heart of a great continent which offers something that is becoming progressively rare in this shrinking world, the chance to escape from holiday masses and savour something of an environment that has remained unchanged since the very beginning of time.

Although within tropical latitude, the general height of the plateau gives Zambia a moderate climate which has earned Zambia the appropriate nickname, the “air conditioned state.” There are three distinct seasons cool and dry from May to August, hot and dry from September to November, and warm and wet from December to April. Only in the valleys of the Zambezi and Luangwa Rivers is there excessive heat particularly in the hottest month of October, and it is only during the wet season that there is any noticeable degree of humidity.

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