7-Day Zambia Wellness and Safari Retreat with Livingstone and Lusaka

• Meet the tour representative along with the driver at the Livingstone International airport (Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula Airport). You will be transferred to and stay at a good tourism-styled accommodation facility in Livingstone.
• If time permits, late in the afternoon after your check-in, you will be picked up from the reception of the lodge where you will be staying. You will then be transferred for your exciting, relaxing and splendid sunset cruise on the mighty Zambezi River above the mighty Victoria Falls aboard a large water vessel.
  • Overview of the local Zambezi sub-basin: This is the area in which you will do your sunset cruise. Wildlife such as elephant, hippo, crocodile, bush-buck, various antelope, buffalo, bee-eaters, fish eagle, zebra and giraffe, to name a few, are home in this area of the Zambezi River sub-basin and can be seen on the edge of the river. Knowledgeable local guides will accompany you on this cruise and share their knowledge of the local history and wildlife. Healthy and warm, delicious, well-prepared snacks are served on board. At the end of the cruise, you will be transferred back to your lodge.
• 19:30 pm: You will have a well-prepared fresh dinner.
• 20:00 pm: Narration: In the evening, we will have a ‘meet and greet session’ in the lounge where you will meet your fellow travellers unless you are a solo or private traveller. (In the event that you are the only ones booked on this tour, there shall be no group meet and greet session.) You will also receive a short briefing from the Wellness instructor on some pertinent facts such as personal safety, required eco-tour practices and some important country information and social etiquette.
• 21:50 pm: Retire to bed.

Note: If you have already arrived or are staying in Zambia and wish to undertake this exciting tour, then there is no need for us to pick you up from the Livingstone International Airport as stated in the travel plan. In such a situation, you will need to position yourself at a suitable place in Livingstone at least one day before the commencement of the tour. You should therefore give us the precise location of the place in Livingstone (i,e., lodge or hotel or residence) where we will pick you from in Livingstone on the day of the commencement of the tour.

• 07:00 am: We will pick you up from the reception of your lodge/hotel in Livingstone, where you will have to check out. We will transfer you using a clean and air-conditioned vehicle to Kasbek Lodge outside Livingstone. We shall cover a distance of about 60 km along the Kazungula road on the way to Botswana before reaching the beautiful Kasbek Lodge. The very essence of its name, " Kasbek Lodge", immediately brings to mind health, harmony and happiness, which leads to a natural state of well-being. So expect a professional and good health and wellness program at Kasbek Lodge.
  • Our goal in this program is to transform your life and put you on the path to wellness and health. The ultimate outcome is for you to rejuvenate and have an experience that has a lasting impact on your mind, body and soul. Kasbek Lodge Wellness Studio is a wellness resort centre that gives you a window to better health. Through a combination of treatments, massage, dietary changes and exercise.
    • Step 1: Check in at Kasbek Lodge at the appropriate time as per the lodge's rules of checking in.
    • Step 2: Enjoy a healthful breakfast of a great variety of healthy foodstuffs, including fruits.
    • Step 3: Thereafter, your wellness instructor will carry out a quick personal, situational assessment of your personal needs. Based on the results of the assessment, the instructor will tailor-make a workable personal health and wellness program for you. He will set realistic goals to be achieved for you in this program.
• 09:10 am: You will commence your wellness activities, inclusive of the yoga and meditation session on the grounds of Kasbek Lodge. The yoga-meditation instructor will be there to guide you through the entire session. You will do breathing and meditation and many other relevant exercises.
  • Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental exercises.
• 10:30 am: You will take your mid-morning break spiced up with healthy cookies and natural drinks.
• 10:40 am: You will enter the Kasbek wellness studio for a variety of therapy treatments, including massage. A qualified wellness therapist will be on hand to dispense the right treatment to your whole body.
• 12:00 pm: Join the healthy food cooking lesson. During the program, you will receive some healthy food cooking lessons focused on preparing healthy foods and drinks. This will be conducted by a qualified and experienced chef, and you will physically participate in preparing healthy foods and drinks as well. Thereafter, you will take a communal vegetarian lunch of the same food you have prepared together with the chef at Kasbek Lodge.
• 14:00 pm: You will do a mindfulness and mental resilience session under the supervision of the instructor.
• 15:30 pm: Thereafter, you will go for silent walks and spiritual discourses around Kasbek Lodge.
• 16:00 pm: Take a mid-afternoon break-out session with colleagues and enjoy healthy drinks and cookies.
• 16:10 pm: Your instructor will produce a verbal accountability assessment report on personal accomplishments from this session. You will do a few more mindfulness and mental resilience session to correct a few shortcomings identified in the report.
• 17:00 pm - 18:30 pm: Take a worthwhile rest with your colleagues. Then you will take your healthy dinner.
• 18:30 - 19:30 pm: Take some wellness lessons and extra curriculum activities.
• 19:30 pm: Evening break off and take some time to relax with friends.
• 21:30 pm: Retire to bed to sleep.

• 05:30 am: Wake up call and take a bath.
• 06:10 am: You will be picked up from your Kasbek Lodge and proceed to Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park's main entrance.
• 06:45 am: Commence game viewing within the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park. You will take a mini break by the shores of the Zambezi River.
  • Thereafter you will proceed to the other side of the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park for a walking safari to view the White Rhinos. You are encouraged to donate anything, either materially or financially, to the Wildlife Protection Officers who watch over these few remaining white Rhinos 24/7.
  • A videographer will capture the entire game drive experience for you. A saved soft copy on a flash will be given to you at the end of the game drive. This way, you will always be able to relive this lifetime experience all your life!
  • Note: The order and sequence of activities in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park may be slightly altered by the tour guide.
• 09:30 am: Exit the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park and return back to your lodge for breakfast.
• 09:45 am: Village Tour to Mukuni Village. Experience the African cultural lifestyle in real-time at Mukuni village in Livingstone, Zambia. During your tour, you will be treated to an African experience where you will get to learn more about the African culture and also interact with people from the village. At the end of the Mukuni village tour, you will be transferred back to Livingstone city in a comfortable and air-conditioned transfer vehicle and head to the National Art Gallery. The National Art Gallery is Zambia's first national gallery. Its aim is to promote the work of national and international artists of all disciplines. You will see a lot of artwork and drawings. Thereafter, you will be transferred to check your lodge.
• 13:00 am - 14:30 pm: Lunch break with healthy foods. 
• Start the post-lunch afternoon activities. Go to the Livingstone Museum, the largest and oldest museum in Zambia, established in 1934 as the David Livingstone Memorial Museum. Its original name, the Rhodes–Livingstone Museum, was changed to Livingstone Museum in 1966. Here you will tour the Livingstone Museum and learn more about its history.
• Take a short break outside the museum with light snacks, fresh fruits and drinks. After the break, you will proceed to the Livingstone city centre. You will see the colonial buildings, many shops, banks and local markets. This is an opportunity for you to visit the main post office and send postcards to your loved ones back home. It is also an opportunity to withdraw cash at the numerous automatic teller machines (ATM cash dispensers) for your spending pleasure in Livingstone. Buy your assortment of drinks at the famous Shoprite shop at your own cost.
• Visit Mukuni Park Curio Market within the Livingstone city CBD. So if you are looking for a souvenir of your time in Livingstone/Africa, you'll probably find something at this market. There is a line of permanent shops/stalls, and they sell mainly traditional items such as animal carvings, pictures, bowls, baskets and traditional dressings, which you may buy as souvenirs. Thereafter, you will be transferred back to your lodge in Livingstone.

Note: All your meals are prepared by our own cooks and delivered to your room for quality control and consistency purposes. We do not get meals from the lodge you are staying at except in some exceptional circumstances, and sometimes breakfast is included in the room rate. However, should you wish to eat the meals and drinks from the restaurant of the lodge you are staying at, you are free to do so and meet the cost of such meals and drinks, which you must settle in full at check-out time to the respective lodge cashier.

• 08:35 am: Take your sumptuous breakfast.
• 09:00 am - 10:00 am: Do a few fitness exercises onsite.
• 10:20 am: Leave for Kalomo town travelling by road up north on T-1, the main Livingstone - Lusaka tourist road of Zambia. It is a good tarmac road, and you will cover a distance of about 128 km. You will pass the small roadside town of Zimba on your way up north before reaching Kalomo.
• 13:00 pm: Arrive in Kalomo town, the first colonial capital city of the then Northern Rhodesia, current Zambia.
  • Overview of Kalomo: In 1907, it became the capital of what was known as Northern-Western Rhodesia. In 1911, it became the capital of Northern Rhodesia, what is today called Zambia.
  • You will visit and tour the first "state house" of the colonial administrator of Northern-Western Rhodesia (now Zambia).
  • The Administrator's house national monument-located in Kalomo, Zambia, is a 116 years old house. It was the first home of the British South African Company (BSAco)'s administrator in charge of a territory back then called North-Western Rhodesia. It is believed the house served as present-day Zambia's first state house. You will also stop for lunch.
• Thereafter, you will depart for Choma and, along the way, about 3 km north of Kalomo, on the main T-1 road, see the Kalundu Mound. It is a slightly raised mound (a matter of just a few metres) of the earth through which the road passes. This marks the site of an Iron-Age village, and the mound is the accumulated debris of many centuries of occupation.
• 15:30 pm: Arrive in Choma town.
  • Choma is a market town and is the provincial headquarters of the Southern Province of Zambia. It lies on Zambia’s main T-1 tourist road and railway line, about 285 km from Lusaka and 188 km from Livingstone. It is home to the Choma Museum and craft centre, exclusively dedicated to the cultural heritage of the Tonga people of the southern province of Zambia. You will enter and tour the Choma Museum and the nearby Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula statue.
• 17:00 pm: Check in at any other good accommodation facility in Choma.
• 19:00 pm – 21:30 pm: Enjoy dinner.
• 21:40 pm: Retire to bed to sleep.

• 06:30 am: Wake up and bathe with warm water. Do a few morning fitness exercises.
• 07:35 am: Take your sumptuous breakfast.
• 08:00 am: Leave for Lusaka. You will pass through small village sidings along the way, namely Batoka, Muzoka, Pemba, Chisekesi and Rusangu, in that order, before arriving in Monze (distance is 97.4 km from Choma).
  • Monze is an agricultural, rural town with an estimated population of 163,578 people.
• Depart for Mazabuka, the next town after Monze. You will see large sugar plantations on the way near Mazabuka town. You will pass a number of small village siding settlements along the way to Mazabuka, approximately 72 km from Monze. Arrive in Mazabuka, dubbed "the sweetest town" in Zambia. This is because sugar canes that are processed into edible household sugar are grown on a large scale in Mazabuka. You will then take an afternoon break in Mazabuka before proceeding to Kafue town, the nearest town to Lusaka.
• 14:30 pm: Arrive in Lusaka and check in at Pebble View Luxury Apartments or any good-level hotel/lodge in Lusaka. You will then take your lunch.
  • The capital city of Zambia is Lusaka, located in the south-central part of Zambia. The nation's population of around 19.5 million is concentrated mainly around Lusaka in the south and the Copperbelt Province to the north, the core economic hubs of the country. Lusaka is one of Africa's most delightful and fastest-growing cities in Africa. It is a metropolitan area that offers a traditional and hearty Zambian welcome to all visitors.
  • Lusaka city was named after the village chief called Lusaka, whose port was located at the point where the National Assembly building now stands. The area was then expanded to provide settlement for workers working on the railway during British colonial times. Today, Lusaka is a favourite town for many tourists, expatriates, students and Zambians, too, simply because of the fast-growing infrastructure, housing and easy access to services.
  • Located 5.2 km from Lusaka Golf Club, Pebble View Luxury Apartments offers an outdoor swimming pool, a bar and air-conditioned accommodation with a patio and free WiFi.
• Visit Lusaka National Museum. The National Museum of Lusaka will be one of the highlights of your Lusaka tour, where you will see exhibits like sculptures, paintings from all ages, cultural highlights and archaeological displays. This specific cultural heritage museum tells the background of Zambia using four main divisions; ethnography, witchcraft, history and contemporary art.
• Head to Kabwata Cultural Village; A lot of crafts and local print clothing are sold here. This is a perfect place for you to buy a souvenir to take back home. Enjoy dinner and some entertainment. 
• Retire to bed to sleep.

Note: Alternative Accommodation; If there is no accommodation space available at Pebble View Luxury Apartments in Lusaka, you will alternatively travel and stay at Hotel Ciêla, Lusaka, a resort or at any good level lodge.

• 07:10 am: Wake up; thereafter, take your healthy, delicious breakfast.
• 08:00 am: Meet your wellness instructor, who will brief you on the planned activities of the day. 
  • Hotel Ciêla has located just 10 km from the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport. Heading towards Kasisi Mission and along the way to Chaminuka Lodge, Ciêla Resort & Spa is a comfortable 20-minute drive from Lusaka. You will enjoy a peaceful, wellness healing break at Hotel Ciêla, Lusaka, Resort and Spa and wellness centre in Lusaka. There are a wide variety of amazing wellness packages designed with you, our guest, in mind. These include but are not limited to the following;
    • Yoga classes
    • Fitness classes
    • Full body massage
    • Hand massage
    • Head massage
    • Couples massage
    • Foot massage
    • Neck massage
    • Back massage
    • Spa facilities
    • Light therapy
    • Body wrap, scrub and body treatments
    • Haircut, styling and colouring
    • Pedicure and Manicure
    • Hair treatments
    • Make-up and beauty services
    • Waxing services
    • Facial treatments (These activities have massive health benefits, such as; reducing stress and promoting sleep, boosting blood circulation, relieving pain and healing skin problems.)
• Have a well-organised farewell dinner in the evening at Pebble View Luxury Apartments in Lusaka.

• 08:35 am: Take your sumptuous breakfast.
• 09:00 am - 10:00 am: Do a few fitness exercises.
• 10:20 am: Depending on what time your flight is, you will be transferred to Lusaka's Kenneth Kaunda International Airport. You will be a totally new being, a more relaxed and distressed person looking forward to a fresh start in your home country.