Kaingo Bush Camp

Kaingo Bush Camp Highlights

Kaingo Bush Camp offers a spectacular location overlooking the Luangwa River in a pristine wildlife area of the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia. Kaingo Bush Camp offers a personalized safari experience in a relaxed and friendly environment with fantastic game viewing opportunities, superb service and delicious meals. Kaingo offers only 6 chalets, 2 being honeymoon suites with beautiful river views. Kaingo Bush Camp offers peace and serenity and solar power ensures complete silence with only the sounds of the bush. Kaingo Bush Camp offers the ideal retreat for a romantic honeymoon or guests looking for a quiet get-away. The honeymoon suite is situated underneath the trees and offers a magnificent outdoor bathtub with river views and hippos playing.

Kaingo Bush Camp Description

Kaingo Bush Camp offers 6 bush chalets overlooking the Luangwa River. The chalets are trendy and practical with modern amenities including homemade soaps, textiles, and farm produce. The spacious centrally located open-sided sitting room includes a dining area, library and an old lead-wood bar. Kaingo Bush Camp offers two king, two twin chalets and two honeymoon suites. Large insect-proof windows provide beautiful views of the river and solar power is used. The honeymoon suite is located under tall leadwood and sausage trees and, in addition to the indoor en-suite bathroom offers a stunning outdoor bathtub with shady views of a pod of hippos. A highlight at Kaingo is the unique deck built out over the river. The camp also offers a central dining area from where one can view the wildlife.

Kaingo Bush Camp Game Viewing

The South Luangwa National Park offers large concentrations of big game and incredible birding. The park offers fantastic bird-watching with 400 species on offer including the elegant crowned cranes, Pelicans, the saddle bill stork, great white egrets, black headed herons, open billed storks and the goliath heron. A highlight for bird-watchers is the hundreds of brightly coloured carmine bee-eaters nesting in the sandy banks of the river. The Thornicroft's Giraffe is unique to Luangwa Valley as well as the Cookson's wildebeest. South Luangwa National Park has 14 different antelope species; the largest of the antelope is the eland. The most commonly seen antelope is the impala. Other antelope species include the Puku and the Kudu, Reedbuck, roan, sable, hartebeest, grysbok, klipspringer and oribi. Hyenas are fairly common throughout the valley and can be heard most nights. South Luangwa National Park also has a good population of leopard however very elusive. Lions are plentiful and often roam in prides of up to thirty. Other carnivores present but not often seen include caracal, wild dog, serval and side-striped jackal. The Luangwa River also has a high number of hippopotamuses as well as crocodiles.