Luangwa River Lodge
Luangwa River Lodge offers luxury and charm in the beautiful Luangwa Valley in South Luangwa National Park. The lodge offers five tastefully decorated bush suites accommodating a maximum of 10 guests at a time, ensuring a private and personal safari experience.
Luangwa River Lodge is situated in the Luangwa Valley in South Luangwa National Park in Zambia, known as one of the finest wildlife sanctuaries in Africa. Luangwa River Lodge offers luxury and charm in five tastefully decorated bush suites accommodating a maximum of 10 guests at a time, ensuring a personal safari experience combined with superb service and exciting game viewing activities. The South Luangwa National Park covers an area of over 9050 square kilometers of prime wilderness. All game activities are lead by experienced, professional guides. Luangwa River Lodge offers a variety of wildlife activities in the South Luangwa National Park including walking safaris, which the park is famous for, as well as game drives and riverboat trips depending on the water level of the Luangwa River.
- Open during the Emerald Season.
- A Moroccan villa-style main building complete with water features, banana trees and enormous red earthen plaster pillars.
- Canvas chairs sit on the edge of the riverbank which is a prime point to view elephants crossing the river in the evenings.
- Inside each chalet are twin beds or a large double bed, a small lounge area and a vast en suite bathroom.
The South Luangwa National Park and Luangwa River, with its rich vegetation, provides high concentrations of wildlife. There are huge herds of elephant and buffalo, as well as dominant antelope species such as impala and puku. Other antelope species include common waterbuck, bushbuck, eland, kudu, grysbok, oribi, reedbuck, Lichtenstein's hartebeest, sable and roan. Species such as Thornicroft's giraffe and Cookson's wildebeest occur nowhere else in the world and the area's leopard viewing is fantastic. The main predators in the South Luangwa Park are lion, leopard, spotted hyena and wild dogs. The dry season along the Luangwa River with all game forced to congregate along its banks is an experience not to be missed. Large hippo populations feed the local lion prides, while yellow baboons and Defassa waterbuck provide a contrast to their southern cousins and even the endangered wild dog thrives.
