The Congo you haven't seen yet.
Copper mines that built an empire. Waterfalls no guidebook has mapped. A memorial that changed a continent's history. Lualaba Expeditions takes you into the real Copperbelt — guided by the people who call it home.
Featured experiences
Each tour is built around a different way of understanding this part of the Congo — its industry, its wilderness, its history, and its people.
Historic Mine Heritage Tour
From Union Minière's colonial pits to today's mega-mines — the story of the copper that shaped Katanga.
National Parks & Nature Excursions
Upemba and Kundelungu National Parks, the mighty Lofoi Falls, and the wild Lualaba river landscapes.
Lumumba Memorial History Tour
A respectful journey to the site honouring Patrice Lumumba, paired with a Lubumbashi heritage city walk.
"Be Part of the People"
Village homestays, Tshokwe culture, music, markets and Congolese cooking — tourism that pays local families directly.
An entire province the rest of the world skipped.
Kolwezi sits at the centre of the richest cobalt and copper reserves on Earth — and almost nobody outside the mining industry has ever visited it as a traveller. That's the opportunity. You get colonial-era headframes without a fence of tour buses, waterfalls higher than Victoria Falls with no queue, and a memorial to one of Africa's defining independence leaders, told by Congolese guides rather than a foreign textbook.
We built Lualaba Expeditions because the expats, engineers and diplomats already living here kept asking the same question: "is there anything to actually do?" There is. A lot. It just needed a guide.
Heritage
A hundred and twenty years of mining history, told on-site.
Wilderness
Two of Central Africa's least-visited national parks.
People
Community tourism where the money visibly stays local.
Be Part of the People
This is our flagship promise: every homestay, every cooking class, every artisan workshop is booked directly with the family or cooperative that runs it. No middlemen skimming the difference.
Trusted by expats, historians and adventurers alike
"We've lived in Kolwezi for two years and had no idea the mine heritage tour existed. Brought my visiting parents — genuinely the best day we've had here."
"The Lumumba tour was handled with real care and honesty — not sanitised, not sensationalised. Our guide's own family history made it unforgettable."
"Lofoi Falls is taller than Victoria Falls and we had the entire viewpoint to ourselves. Logistics were flawless from Lubumbashi airport onward."
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