Lower Zambezi
Old Mondoro
Royal Zambezi Lodge
c/o PO Box 30972, Lusaka 10101 Tel +260 211 261 588 Fax: +260 211 262 683 Email: info@chiawa.com www.oldmondoro.com
c/o P Bag CH42, Chelston, Lusaka Tel: +260 979 486 618 Tel/Fax: +260 211 840 682 Email: reservations1@royalzambezilodge.com www.royalzambezilodge.com
Owned and operated by the Cumings family, Old Mondoro is a beautiful, intimate and private safari camp in a spectacular and remote location.
Royal Zambezi Lodge is an intimate familyowned five-star luxury lodge overlooking the vast Zambezi River, offering the ultimate in comfort and luxury in breathtaking surroundings. With world-class fishing, unrivalled game viewing, birdwatching, magnificent sunset river cruises, professionally guided canoeing trips and one of the only bush spas in Zambia, the lodge has a well earned international reputation for the diversity of its experiences. The lodge combines outstanding hospitality with nature’s most amazing creations. With their thatch and copper roofs, the buildings boast natural but sophisticated furnishings and luxurious details. The restaurant maintains this interesting theme. Here, the cuisine features well sourced, fresh local ingredients in exciting and healthy combinations. The location of Royal Zambezi Lodge was specifically chosen because it allows for a wide variety of safari activities. The area is home to large herds of elephant and buffalo and offers frequent lion and leopard sightings. Guests are accompanied by qualified Royal Zambezi guides with over 50 years of experience in the Lower Zambezi valley. The Royal Zambezi Lodge is the place where ‘luxury meets the wild’.
Situated deep inside the park in lovely walking country with great game viewing, Old Mondoro is a back-to-the-bush experience with excellent for elephant, leopard and seasonal wild dog sightings. The camp’s three professional guides offer a full range of activities such as day and night game drives, walks, canoe trips and game viewing by boat. A canvas and reed lounge area, or sitenje, with timber decks overlooks a maze of islands in the Zambezi River. Accommodation is in four screened-in reed chalets with eight beds. Constructed of canvas and natural materials, Old Mondoro has an open and adventurous feel, providing a perfect retreat after a day filled with excitement in the bush and yet where much of the action will happen right in front of the chalets. Old Mondoro also offers some of the most prolific leopard sightings to be had in Africa.
Sanctuary Zambezi Kulefu Camp
Redcliff Zambezi Lodge
c/o Postnet Box 218 P Bag E891, Lusaka 10101 Tel: +27 11 438 4650 · Fax: +22 11 787 7658 Email: southernafrica@sanctuaryretreats.com www.sanctuaryretreats.com
Cell: +260 979 587 822 Email: info@redcliff-lodge.com; 4tigers@redcliff-lodge.com www.redcliff-lodge.com Redcliff Zambezi Lodge extends to about 100 hectares with 1.5 km of river frontage. The lodge can accommodate up to 16 guests. Four tent-roofed chalets (each with two beds) and two family chalets (each with four beds) are furnished with beautiful indigenous teak. Each chalet has large, comfortable beds and mosquito nets and en-suite facilities, including
shower, toilet, hot and cold running water. Solar panels are used to charge 12 volt batteries for major lighting needs, while pathways and chalets are illuminated by paraffin lanterns. The camp is built safely above the high-flood level. A swimming pool is part of the comfortable surroundings.
Sanctuary Zambezi Kulefu Camp is an intimate safari camp set deep inside the National Park in a sheltered location on the banks on one of the permanent channels of the Zambezi River. Accommodation consists of seven spacious tented rooms on teak decking with twin beds or double beds, mosquito nets, en-suite facilities, solar heated water and a private veranda.
Sausage Tree Camp
Tsika isLand camp
c/o Post.Net Box E017 P/Bag 283, Crossroads, Lusaka Tel: +260 211 845 204 Email: reservations@sausagetreecamp.com www.sausagetreecamp.com
c/o PO Box CA 102 Castle Post Office, Lusaka Tel: +260 211 841 051/841 052 Email: info@chongwe.com www.chongwe.com
Sausage Tree Camp is set in a beautiful location on the Zambezi River, in the heart of the Lower Zambezi National Park. This exclusive safari camp offers a wide range of game viewing activities including game drives (both day and night), walking safaris, canoeing, boating and fishing. Sleeping 16 guests, the camp offers a personalised safari experience. Accommodation
is in eight spacious white Bedouinstyle tents, each with a private open-air bathroom and a flush ‘loo with a view’. Each tent has its own personal muchinda (butler). Nearly hidden from one another, and shaded by mature sausage and mahogany trees, the tents are cool, private sanctuaries from which to view wildlife.
Set in the middle of the Zambezi River, Tsika Island is 30 to 35 km upstream from Chongwe between Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe and the village of Mugurameno in Zambia. The camp is situated on the south side of the island which has a mixture of Albida groves and reeded channels, with a sandy plain to the north.
Meals are served outdoors whenever possible, with surprise bush breakfasts, picnic lunches and dinners under the stars. Guests can discover Sanctuary Zambezi Kulefu Camp’s wildlife by boat, canoe, safari vehicle or on foot.
maximum of six guests. There are no predators on the island, with open ferro structures under village thatch complementing the island bush experience. The prime activity at Tsika is a full-day canoe sagaro along the Zambezi.
Tsika Island has three simple chalets allowing a
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