Liuwa Plain is one of the loneliest and most rewarding places we send anyone in Zambia: a vast seasonal floodplain in far western Barotseland, managed by African Parks with the Barotse Royal Establishment, where the second-largest wildebeest migration in Africa gathers tens of thousands of animals with almost no vehicles to share them with.
Liuwa is also where we met Lady Liuwa, the lone lioness who survived here for years as the last of her kind on the plain, and who became the reason many of our travellers went at all. We wrote about her, and about saying goodbye, in Goodbye, Lady Liuwa.
A remote wildebeest migration and wild dogs
Weather Through the Year
Liuwa Plain National Park, Zambia
26°C79°F302mmJ
27°C81°F163mmF
27°C81°F116mmM
28°C82°F15mmA
28°C82°F2mmM
27°C81°F0mmJ
27°C81°F0mmJ
30°C86°F0mmA
34°C93°F0mmS
35°C95°F10mmO
31°C88°F106mmN
29°C84°F137mmD
Bar height = monthly rainfall (mm) · gold = best time to visit (driest) · number on top = avg high (°C / °F)