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Anthropologist Richard Leakey once said that we feel an affinity for Africa because it’s in our blood. In 1959, his famous parents, Louis and Mary, discovered the jawbone of a primitive human in Africa, giving the world good reason to believe that the continent is humankind’s homeland.

When you visit Zambia, you’ll experience for yourself the words of Richard Leakey. Because the country is relatively new to tourism compared with other African nations, it is still in an incredibly natural state and unburdened by crowds. A trip to Zambia is an intimate encounter with Africa you won’t get anywhere else.

The country is known as the “home of walking safaris,” and there’s no better place to hike than in Zambia’s national parks. In the southeast, on the banks of the Zambezi River, sits Lower Zambezi National Park. More than fifty mammal species and four hundred bird species — including African fish eagles, hornbills, kingfishers, lovebirds, and parrots — thrive in the park’s rugged, northern escarpment; the river itself; and its numerous islands, lagoons, and floodplains. Baboons and vervet monkeys flee from leopards, while lions stalk zebras and buffaloes. From the river, territorial hippos and huge crocodiles watch. On a walking safari here, you’ll get close to the life wandering in and out of the Zambezi’s channels.

Continue your explorations at ground level with a stop at one of southern Africa’s wildest wildernesses: the Luangwa River Valley, which some say is the finest wildlife sanctuary in Africa. South Luangwa National Park’s lush resources sustain great concentrations of birds, buffaloes, elephants, giraffes, hippos, leopards, and lions.

Of course, the massive, ever-thundering Victoria Falls — officially known here by its older, indigenous name of Mosi-oa-Tunya — is probably the best-known Zambia attraction. Listed as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the watery hurricane that is Victoria Falls is said to be the largest sheet of falling water on Earth, based on its height of 360 feet and base width of one mile. On your Zambia tour, you may take a thrilling helicopter flight over this UNESCO World Heritage site.

Whether you choose a Zambia safari by foot, open four-wheel-drive vehicle, canoe, elephant, or by white-water rafting, at the end of the day, you’ll return to your comfortable camp that somehow feels like your ancestral home; situated peacefully in a grove of mahogany and acacia trees, not far from the baobabs.