20 · National Parks
Plus 34 game management areas, together covering more than 30% of the country. Kafue alone, Zambia's oldest and largest park, is roughly the size of Wales.
Lusaka, Zambia
Your compass
to the real Lusaka.
Private, personally-guided days around the city and out into the bush: markets, elephants, museums and game drives, planned and led by someone who actually lives here.
The Compass
One guide. One vehicle.
No big-bus crowds.
Lusaka Compass Safaris is a small, personally-guided outfit built around a simple idea: the best way into a place is with someone who already loves it. Every trip is planned and led directly by Petros Talimi, with private transport, flexible pacing, and routes shaped around what you actually want to see, not a fixed bus schedule.
"A lovely, relaxed day exploring the real Lusaka." Petros
The Country
Wild, uncrowded, and still mostly undiscovered
Zambia doesn't get the tourist numbers its neighbors do, and that's most of the appeal. Vast parks, real bush, and wildlife you're not sharing with a line of minivans. It's landlocked, roughly the size of Texas, and named for the Zambezi, the river that carves along its southern border and over Victoria Falls. It's also home, in the most literal sense: Petros grew up in the Copperbelt, the copper-mining heartland that still shapes the country's identity today.
20 · National Parks
108m · Mosi-oa-Tunya
Victoria Falls, known locally as "the smoke that thunders," drops 108 meters and stretches over a mile across the Zambezi, the river that gives Zambia its name.
1950 · South Luangwa
The year Norman Carr pioneered the walking safari here. Locals still call it the Valley of the Leopard, and it remains one of the best places in Africa to find one.
Copperbelt
Ndola, the province's capital, sits at the heart of one of the world's richest copper regions. It's also where Petros grew up, and the reason this whole site leans orange.
Where To Go
Two ways to see Zambia
One day in the city, one day in the bush, or build your own from the à la carte list below.
Full Day · City
The Ultimate Lusaka
$280 for two
An 8-hour loop through the city's markets, its history, and its wildlife, with a proper Zambian BBQ lunch built into the middle of the day.
Included
- Professional guide (Petros, personally)
- Private, comfortable transport
- Elephant Orphanage Nursery
- Traditional Zambian BBQ lunch
- All entrance fees
- Bottled water & soft drinks
The route
- Soweto Market
- City Market
- Elephant Orphanage Nursery
- Traditional BBQ lunch
- Lusaka National Museum
- Freedom Statue & Independence Avenue
- Kabwata Cultural Village
Full Day · Bush
Game Drive & Lodge Day
$150 transfer + drive
Return transfer and a game drive form the base of the day. From there, build your own itinerary from 09:00–17:00 with any of the activities below, priced per person.
Included
- Return transfer
- Game drive
À la carte, 09:00–17:00
Plan this dayFrom The Road
What a day out here looks like
Your Guide
Petros Talimi
Petros guides every Lusaka Compass Safaris trip in person, with no rotating staff and no hand-off to someone else on the day. He grew up in Zambia's Copperbelt and plans each route himself, from the market stalls he actually shops at to the quiet corner of the museum worth slowing down for.
Ask him anything along the way. Guests keep coming back for the pace as much as the places: private, unhurried, and shaped around whoever's in the car that day.
Plan A Trip
Tell Petros where to take you
Message directly on WhatsApp with your dates, group size, and which day sounds right: the Ultimate Lusaka, the Game Drive & Lodge Day, or a mix of both.