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Ten Nights South Luangwa Safari

The ultimate Luangwa experience, spending 2 days on safari in each of our 5 camps

Please note that all of our safaris are tailor-made; this itinerary is just a suggestion and can be amended to better fit your requirements.

2 nights Kapani Lodge
2 nights Luwi Bush Camp
2 nights Nsolo Bush Camp
2 nights Kakuli Bush Camp
2 nights Mchenja Camp

Kapani Map Room You will be met at Lusaka Airport and escorted onto your domestic flight to Mfuwe. This flight takes just over an hour.

Your safari guide will meet you at Mfuwe Airport and drive you to Kapani Lodge in time to settle in before brunch. You will have the rest of the day to relax, until gameviewing this evening which will be by vehicle leaving camp around 4pm. You will stop for sundowners in the Park and then continue with the second half of the drive, which is conducted after dark in search of nocturnal species such as the genet and civet, the porcupine and honey-badger which will never be seen in daylight hours. It is during these early evening hours that the cats, including lion and leopard, are most active, patrolling their territories, looking for prey.

You will return to camp at around 7:30pm in time for dinner.

Leopard Cub After two nights at Kapani you will be driven deep into the National Park to Luwi Bush Camp, a wonderfully rustic camp set in the shade of large trees close to a permanent lagoon. The rooms at Luwi have grass walls and thatched roofs with bathrooms that are open to the trees and stars above.

This afternoon your professional guide will introduce you to the armed escort scout who will accompany you on your first real walking safari. Your guide will take time to point out the tracks and signs that he uses to interpret the bush that you are walking through. This first excursion will be a taster for what is to come. Your first night in the bush camp is likely to be accompanied by the noises of animals around camp. You may lie awake, eager for dawn to come. When it does, your guide will interpret the calls that kept you awake as you head out together and pick up the fresh tracks of a pride of lion or investigate the alarm calls of the local troop of baboon. This is no nature trail, this is the real thing, you are tracking big game through the African bush, on foot!

Nsolo Outside On the second morning at Luwi you will head out from camp as you did on the previous day but this time your guide will walk you down the Luwi river course. Your destination is Nsolo, the second of your bush camps.

After a few hours' gentle walking you will wander into the new camp. A cool drink will be ready for you, brunch will be on the table and your bags will be in your room. Your home for the next two nights will be a raised deck with grass walls on three sides and a tall, cool thatched roof. Once more your bathroom is open to the sky above.

Kakuli Shower Your next move takes you further down the Luwi River, again on foot, to its confluence with the main Luangwa and to Kakuli Camp.

This camp is tented and has stunning views along a stretch of the Luangwa that is home to over five hundred Hippo.

Most of the gameviewing is still on foot although there are more roads in this area so it is possible to use vehicles and with a dense population of leopards in the area the night drives are usually most rewarding.

Mchenja Deck and Chitenje Finally a real taste of luxury awaits you at Mchenja. The last of your camps is set under the shade of immense ebony trees. The individually designed tents each have a bath inside as well as an outside shower and toilet. The main chitenje houses a small pool alongside the bar and sitting area and meals are usually taken on the river bank.

The game in this area of the Park is abundant, so if there is anything that you heve yet to see, the chances are you will find it here.

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Our Lodge and Camps
Kapani Lodge (Luxury permanent safari camp, 6 rooms)	Kakuli Bush Camp (Riverside bush camp, 4 tents under thatch)
Luwi Bush Camp (Rustic 4 room bush camp)	Mchenja Bush Camp (Ultimate luxury in the bush, 4 canvas rooms under thatch)
Nsolo Bush Camp (Thatched bush camp on raised decks, 4 rooms)

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