High Season: 1st July to 31st October Minimum 4 Guests $795 pppn

Emerald Season: 1 April to 30th June & 1st to 15th November requires Minimum 4 Guests $650 pppn

A luxury safari house. Suitable for families and groups designed up to eight guests (min age 7). Designed by Neil Rocher, this stunning private house is situated approximately 1 km from Chongwe camp. With four large ensuite bedrooms a massive dining/sitting area, swimming pool and a wonderfully appointed platform. A stay at Chongwe house includes activities which are arranged exclusively to the house guests with private vehicles, guides and an armed scout for walking safaris, not to mention canoe and boat excursions too. Your own private chef and house manager will discuss menu planning for the stay and activities and meals will be designed to suit the individual group and their desires.

The house sits at the end of a massive winterthorn grove, on the banks of the peaceful Chongwe River, a tributary of the Zambezi. The view of the nearby mountainous escarpment is spectacular. From the main room you look out over the deck and pool to the river and mountains beyond. All the furniture in the sitting room has been carved from a single huge fallen winterthorn tree, as if it has fallen across the room. Beautifully soft coloured pebbles from the Chongwe River have been embedded in the ceilings. There are four large ensuite bedrooms a massive dining/sitting area and a swimming pool and platform. The ground floor bedrooms are each entered through a tunnel which gives the feeling of walking through a cave. The curved entrance gives privacy without the need for doors. The downstairs bathrooms have water pouring out of the stone ceiling instead of the normal shower rose, whilst the upstairs showers are waterfalls. “Taps” are made from bone and wood and the exquisitely carved basins have been carved out of wood and white marble by the famous Zambian artist, Eddie Mumba. The upstairs bedrooms have unusual baths, from which you have a view across the bush.

The Chongwe area is famous for huge male elephants feeding through the winterthorn grove in which the house is situated and this amazing game experience is enhanced by the Chongwe River being the main water source for most of the game in the area. From the bedrooms, the sitting room and the deck you will have game in view, feeding and watering.

 Alternatively...

The Albida Suite at Chongwe

• High Season: July to Oct requires Minimum 4 Guests $750 pppn
• Shoulder Season: April to June & November requires Minimum 4 guests $655 pppn
• Child discounts available, subject to number of adults. Rates are inclusive of accommodation, all meals, drinks, activities

Perfect for families or friends who travel together. The rooms can have a third bed added quite easily. Guests are welcome to join the main camp for meals or a drink or remain in their suite.

The exclusivity is optional. If just two people want the whole suite there is a suite rate that ensures exclusive use of the whole facility. Opened in 2007, Chongwe River Camps’ Albida suite also designed by Neil Rocher is situated on the Chongwe and Zambezi confluence with a view of the escarpment to the North. Custom designed tents and organic ferro walling interspersed with natural wood. The two bedroom suites rooms share a lounge and dining area appointed with fine furniture and antiques that over look a private pool and the Zambezi. Albida is the the perfect marriage between Chongwe Camp and Chongwe House.

The en-suite deluxe rooms are separate octagonal tents with gauze windows on 7 sides with inter-leading path ways. The bathrooms have a canvas roof but are open to the bush with a bath, double basins and double shower. One shower is under cover and one is open air. Activities include game drives, including night drives in the National Park or along the Chongwe River, walking safaris, cruising, fishing and canoeing. If the suite is filled and the group is doing the same activity then private guides will be available. Sometimes due to safety and routes on canoes and walks a private guide/activity is not always possible and if the group splits up.The suite offers pure luxury but sill retains the spirit of the bush we are quite confident it is the finest tented accommodation in the Lower Zambezi if not all of Zambia.

Notes :

Children 12-16 = 50% & Children 11 & under = 65% discount Flights to from Lusaka - $500 pp Charters for groups & families can also be arranged.
Rates are inclusive of accommodation, all meals, drinks, activities.