Steel Safaris - South Africa
Tanzania’s Greatest Safari
Mikumi National Park covers an area of 3,230 square kilometres and is well known for its populations of elephants, giraffes, zebras, elands, kudu, wildebeest, and antelope. A number of huge interconnected water pools have resident families of hippos living in them. We always recommend taking time to sit and watch these amazing creatures frolic and fight, swim, huddle and muddle along with each other all day long. Every now and then a silent crocodile glides into the middle of the hippos to sun itself on the banks.
The larger mammals, like zebra and elephant, giraffe and buffalo wander over the verdant undulating grasslands and are hunted upon by large numbers of lions, leopards, wild dogs and the saddle-backed jackal. Most areas of the Park are easily accessible and distances are shorter than in other parks making it a perfect park when aiming for specific species on your game drives.
Where to stay in South Luangwa
The Lodges we work with, take pride in knowing their resident leopard populations and their dens and offer night game drives to find these elusive, efficient predators for you.
Choosing to spend your African safari here in Zambia, will ensure you a stay in one of the best-known national parks in Africa for walking safaris – the famous Norman Carr founded the original camps and treks here in this remote corner of Zambia and this tradition is still going strong – a number of travellers here choose to experience this pristine wildlife area on foot.
We use many of the camps in the South Luangwa National Park and just outside. Our favourite is the middle-range Thornicroft Camp. This offers first-class service.
We tend to concentrate on accommodations located along the Luangwa river’s edge, so you can see hippos, crocodiles, elephants and more without even having to leave the comfort of the veranda. It gives an extra feel to your Zambian safari holiday to fall asleep with the noise of hippos snorting in the river below you.
Often, the park’s elephants, hippos, giraffes, vervet monkeys, baboons and bushbuck are known to wander around within the grounds of the unfenced lodges. This will add to the already unique and truly wild African experience of a Safari journey in Zambia.
Flatdogs Camp, offer several unique accommodation options that blend into the beauty and tranquillity found on the banks of the Luangwa River. Step into their paradise and marvel at the natural world again. Flatdogs Camp pride themselves on maintaining an accessible luxury Zambian safari destination by offering two swimming pools, WiFi, a reference library as well as wildlife watching directly from the camp 24/7.
We also offer South Luangwa Safari tours while based at Chinzombo Camp part of the Norman Carr Safaris at Mfuwe Lodge.