blue lagoon national park

Blue Lagoon is a birders paradise and only an hour and a half's drive from this can easily be incorporated as a 'day trip' from the capital. Blue Lagoon was established some years back by the Critchleys, an environmentally oriented farming family who then sold it to the National Parks Department. Their farmhouse still exists with much of the original furniture and silverware. There are plans to to turn it into a tourist lodge in the near future.

Blue Lagoon lies west of Lusaka on the Kafue Flats and the vast floodplain attracts thousands of Kafue Lechwe, some buffalo and numerous waterbirds. The plains are fringed with acacia woodland. This park is an birdwatchers dream. The abundance and variety is astounding and the fact that it has not been opened up until recently and is still undeveloped, makes it one of those last untouched places left in Africa.