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South Luangwa Leopard Safari
South Luangwa Leopard Safari
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Highlights: Lusaka - Flatdogs Camp - Nkonzi Bush camp


Other Departures: Manchester - £4429, Birmingham - £4909, Glasgow - £4919, Edinburgh - £4589


Itinerary:
Flatdogs Camp & Nkonzi Tented Bushcamp


Day 1: Lusaka
Upon arrival in Lusaka, you will be met by your driver for a transfer to your hotel. Cresta Golfview Hotel (Standard Double Room Bed & Breakfast) This charming hotel is ideal for families and is situated in Lusaka. Cresta Golfview features a total of 78 accommodation units. Wired and wireless internet connection is available. Cresta Golfview provides 24-hour reception.


Day 2-6 Flatdogs Camp (4nights)
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Lusaka airport for your flight to Mfuwe airport. You will be met at Mfuwe airport by one of our safari guides and transferred by road to camp (+/- 30 minutes)


The luxury ensuite safari tents offer you a back-to-nature taste of the wild, with large windows all around the tent so you can see and hear the animals feeding in camp as well as the hippopotamus honking to each other in the river in front of you! The tents are spacious with king or twin beds, a large mosquito net, electric lights, and plug sockets for re-charging batteries (UK-style plug sockets). There is also a room safe and tea and coffee-making facilities. The luxury tents have semi-open ensuite bathrooms with a hot shower, WC and basin.
If you are arriving early or on the lunchtime flight, there is time to settle into camp and have some lunch before your first afternoon safari. In the afternoons, we meet for tea at 15h30, so you can meet your guide and discuss your interests with him before you head into the park at around 16h00, ready to explore this magnificent wilderness. Our guides take huge pride in their work, being able to identify numerous alarm calls and to track animals, and try to anticipate their next move so as to position you for the best sightings.


As the sun starts to dip towards the horizon, your guide will aim to find a good spot to stop so you can stretch your legs and watch the sunset with a cold drink in hand… Then, once it’s nearly dark, you will carry on game-viewing with a spotlight, searching for some of our interesting nocturnal residents, like the leopard, lion, porcupine, civet, genet, owls, and hyaena. You will return to camp just after 20h00 when the Park closes, in time for dinner and to relive your sightings with us!


In the mornings, it’s an early start so you can make the most of the light and when the animals are at their most active. We offer you an early breakfast of toast and cereal, tea, and coffee at 05h30 before you head out at 06h00 on a morning safari, exploring the park, taking the sightings as they come, with your guide detailing all you are seeing and adding interesting observations drawn from his years of experience in the Park. You will head back to camp at around 10h00, in time for breakfast or a brunch/lunch type meal – whichever you prefer? Then there is time to relax during the heat of the day, enjoying a dip in the pool perhaps or a siesta after your early start? The Luangwa is well known for its walking safaris, an unforgettable way to experience the Park, so if you would like to walk instead of drive, please let us know so we can organize this for you.


If you are interested in village life in rural Zambia, we can also happily organize a visit to the nearby Mfuwe village, including our anti-poaching base and some of the local community projects, including schools, we are supporting in this area. The safari package includes your accommodation in a luxury ensuite safari tent, all meals, two game-viewing activities per day, National Park Entry fees, LCCF (Luangwa Conservation & Community Fund fee), laundry, and returns airport and other transfers. Not included are drinks apart from tea and coffee or items of personal nature like shop purchases and internet use.


Day 6-9 Luambe Conservation Project – 4 nights
Luambe National Park is a gem just waiting to be discovered. The Park is one of Africa’s best-kept secrets but had been left unprotected for many years, needing someone to arrive who understood its vast potential. Six years ago, the Luambe Conservation Project team were just the right people to take over the Park’s management and protection and the results have already been seen in the increase of animal numbers.


The Luambe Conservation Project aims to offer you a safari with a purpose – the continued conservation of this beautiful habitat.


As well as game drives and walking safaris, from the camp, you can join in on their ongoing conservation work including predator tracking, bird tagging, bat echolocation, their mammal and bird census, and research sessions with local zoologists. There are only 5 safari tents at the camp, so a maximum of 10 guests have the whole Park to themselves. The camp has been designed to take in the stunning sweep of the


Luangwa in front, with its enormous pod of hippo, gathered together in incredible numbers, adding to your sense of discovery as you arrive. The tents use solar lighting and water heating and have ensuite facilities. From camp, the daily routine is similar to that at Flatdogs, with morning and afternoon activities organized for you, to take in as much of this beautiful wilderness as possible as being a part of their ongoing conservation activities. Luambe is so isolated that you have a real feeling of discovery as you explore the Park - you could be the first to find a new waterhole or an owl’s nest or sign of roan and eland - the Park has been so untouched over the years.


This package includes your accommodation, meals, wine, local and house drinks, safari activities, and road transfers from and back to Mfuwe.


.Day 10: Morning game drive.


A transfer back to Mfuwe airport in time for your onward flight.


Excludes
Tourist entry visa fees for Zambia (US$50 per person payable on arrival Zambia)
Drinks while at Flatdogs Camp
Items of personal nature like shop purchases
Gratuities.


*Please note that any Park entry fees hike by the Department of National Parks & Wildlife will be passed onto guests.


Prices are subject to change and availability
Please send in your enquiries to holidays@travelpack.com



Offer Includes

  • Return flights from London Heathrow
  • Airport taxes
  • 9 nights accommodation as per Itinerary
  • Transfers
  • Return airport transfers from and back to Mfuwe airport
  • Accommodation at both camps on full board basis
  • Local drinks while at Nkonzi Camp
  • All safari activities and Park Entry and Conservation fees

Meal Plans

  • As per Itinerary