The Lufupa River Camp is in the heart of Zambia’s Kafue National Park. Kafue is Zambia’s largest park and Africa’s second largest park. It totals over 8,600 square miles of parkland. The Lufupa River Camp sits at the confluence of the Lufupa River and the Kafue River. Kafue National Park is located in western Zambia in a remote wilderness. The park is a mix of floodplains, seasonal grasslands, woodlands, riverine forest and evergreen forest along the river banks. The park offers boat rides, canoe rides, day and night game drives, and walking safaris. The park has many of Africa’s large animals, almost 500 species of birds, and a healthy tsetse fly population.

This was our arrival to the Lufupa River Camp. The staff came out to greet us with singing and dancing. The main camp buildings are right behind the staff and overlook the river.

We quickly settled into our tents with a couple of hours before our evening game drive. Cory and Vicky are sitting on Cory’s porch overlooking the Kafue River. This eventually becomes the Zambezi River far downstream.

Vicky is sitting inside of our tent. It was a tent, but a very room tent. The shower is on the left with the curtains and we had a portable fan plus mosquito netting over our beds.

Vicky and Cory are working on breakfast on the deck of the main building. The Lufupa river comes in from the left and the Kafue river is coming down from above in the photo. We could frequently watch hippos off the deck and occasionally see crocodiles. Birds also flew about most of the time and we saw lots of fish jumping in the river.

This is the wood oven in the main dining area. The chef was cooking pizzas for us for snacks. They also baked bread in this oven and cooked many other items as well.