The best lodge from which to watch Zambia's incredible bat migration.
Between late October and December, there's a huge migration of mammals into Zambia's Kasanka National Park. Not the Great Migration mammals you expect. These are straw-coloured fruit bats, 10-plus million of them, that descend to the park's swampy areas to feast on the season's fruits: mangoes, loquats, waterberries. Community-owned Wasa Lodge sits on the edge of a forest-fringed lake, seemingly at the centre of the dizzying profusion. (It's one of the few places you can stay so near the spectacle.) There are other species too – elephant, buffalo, swamp-dwelling sitatunga antelope, puku, sable, and a plethora of birds.
