Mwamba Bush Camp

Mwamba Bush Camp Highlights

Mwamba Bush Camp is a small bush camp situated in the heart of the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia offering day game drives, night game drives as well as walking safaris. Mwamba offers a fantastic location underneath the trees on the banks of the Mwamba River, a tributary of the Luangwa River. Mwamba offers beautiful views over the waterholes and specially placed hides offer close up encounters with wildlife as well as spectacular photographic opportunities. Mwamba Bush Camp is small and caters for only 6 guests at a time in reed and thatch chalets. The chalets offer spacious en-suite bathrooms with hot showers and flush toilets. Magnificent leopard sightings are also frequent due to the thick riverine bush along the Mwamba attracted by the large numbers of impala and puku found around camp.

Mwamba Bush Camp Description

Mwamba Bush Camp accommodates only 6 guests in comfortable reed and thatch chalets; guests can choose between 1 king, 1 twin and 1 honeymoon chalet. The reed and thatch chalets offer an extraordinary design with two skylights (protected by mosquito gauze) set into the roof offering a "sleep-out" under the stars. The chalets offer large en-suite bathrooms with flush toilets and hot showers. Lighting is all solar powered and the absence of generator ensures that guests can enjoy the sounds of the bush. Meals are delicious and offered in traditional bush-style in the dining and bar area set under the shade of huge ebony trees. Guests can enjoy a magnificent sundowner spot on top of a large termite mound or the cosy campfire at night under a star-lit African sky in a friendly and personal atmosphere.

Mwamba 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. 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. Hippos and crocodiles are plentiful in the Luangwa River.