Ana F.
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Located within the reserve, the Centre hosts some new buildings and facilities to entertain both kids and adults for a couple of hours. The informational huts are beautifully painted and have a lot of information on plants and animals (though not all of them observable within the park) and some interactive structures for kids to learn/play with, including some real skeletons of animals.
Worth the extra fee to have access to the platform where baby elephants are fed, while listening to a lot of interesting elephant facts from the guide!
Entrance fees are as follows (as of Jan. 2023):
Adults: 15USD for tourists, 100ZMW for residents and 50ZMW for citizens
Kids (3-12y.o): 5USD for tourists, 50ZMW for residents, free of charge for local kids.
Gift shop at the left side of the reception displays beautiful items from Lusaka Collective (a bit pricey, but still beautiful to look at and many of them reverting a good % of sales either to the artists or for a good cause). The cafe just before the Centre entrance offers nice options for a light lunch (I had a wrap - super fresh and yummy) and fresh drinks, desserts and coffee.
My group ended up spending some 5 hours from 11h30 to about 16h30 there between taking our time to appreciate elephant feeding, some shopping, delicious lunch and coffee and the guided tour (with the National Park, not the Centre). Of course you can do it quicker, depending on your time availability.
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