Mwamba Bushcamp

Chalets

Mwamba Camp offers a small number of chalets, all set along the dry Mwamba River and positioned to maximise privacy and views.

The chalets are built using woven bamboo, with layered screening to provide protection from insects while still allowing for airflow and a strong connection to the surroundings. The design is simple and understated, with subtle detailing and natural materials used throughout.

Large sliding, fly-screened doors open onto a private viewing deck overlooking the riverbed, which often attracts wildlife moving through the area.

Each chalet features a fully outdoor en-suite bathroom, including a shower set within the surrounding bush, adding to the overall experience of staying close to nature.

The camp operates on solar power, ensuring a quiet environment with minimal disturbance.

Guests also have access to the nearby Last Waterhole Hide, located within walking distance of the chalets, offering additional wildlife viewing opportunities directly from camp

The Numbu Star Bed

The Numbu Star Bed at Mwamba Camp is set out on an open plain some distance from the main camp, offering a very different experience from the chalets.

The platform is simple but well arranged, with a comfortable queen-size bed under a large mosquito net, lantern lighting and basic bathroom facilities including a toilet and outdoor bath. The position out on the plains gives uninterrupted views and a real sense of being out in the bush.

Access is by vehicle, approximately 15 minutes from camp, with guests escorted out after dinner or in time for sundowners, depending on the option selected. A guide and armed scout remain nearby throughout the night.

The Numbu Star Bed is offered as an additional activity for guests staying at Mwamba and is included on a complimentary basis for those spending a combined total of 7 or more nights across the Shenton Safaris camps.

This is a rustic bush-camp set several kilometres in-land from Kaingo camp and on the Mwamba river course. It would most commonly be combined with Kaingo and the transfer would invariably be on foot as a morning walk with your bags being driven to camp but guests can always opt to make the trip by vehicle as well.

The camp itself is simple by design sleeping only 8 guests in 4 reed and thatch rooms with large open-air bathrooms. Mwamba nestles beneath an impressive grove of evergreen ebony trees and each room has a quirky skylight above the bed, essentially this is a large hole in the roof protected by mosquito gauze enabling guests to lie in bed at night beneath the trees and sky above.

In line with Derek and Jules’ passion for photography and the company’s reputation as one that caters more than any other to photographers, there are 3 hides in close proximity to camp each overlooking a watering hole. Ideally 2 nights in this camp would compliment 2 or 3 spent at Kaingo but it can of course be combined with any other Luangwa camps, the area is aesthetic, game-viewing always good and like any properly remote Luangwa bush-camp you won’t be encountering other tourists in the area.

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