Travellers Give Thumbs Up to Airport Hotels

The Southern Sun Ridgeway, Lusaka offers quality and comfort to tourists and business travellers visiting the Zambian capital, Lusaka.

 

Just 27km from the Zambezi International Airport, it's one of the airport hotels that offer conventional facilities for conferences, and a business centre with optional secretarial services. The tastefully furnished guest rooms, which overlook landscaped gardens, provide a private escape to recharge one's internal batteries.

Most airport hotels have wireless internet connectivity so that guests never lose touch with their business and personal contacts as well as world news. They can also manage their travel itinerary by booking flights online.

Southern Sun Ridgeway, Lusaka's convenient location among airport hotels allows travellers to access main centres like Ndola, the third largest city in Zambia, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania or Johannesburg in South Africa on Zambezi Airlines.

If you want to absorb the big attractions of Zambia, you can start by leaving your airport hotels and flying to the stupendous Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. You can also charter a plane to the Lower Zambezi National Park, the country's youngest wildlife sanctuary that straddles the great Zambezi River.

It's a 40-minute flight to the park, which is opposite the Mana Pools Reserve in Zimbabwe. Downstream from Lake Kariba, the Reserve is one of the great spectacles of this neighbouring country. The best way to see it is on safari – it has the highest dry-season concentration of animals in the land – or by canoe. If you opt for the latter, all you have to do is deal with sometimes choppy water and charging hippos to enjoy the experience of a lifetime. There's an interesting warning at the public entrance to the park – take oranges in at your peril. Elephants have a penchant for the tasty fruit and will do anything to get them!