The Kafue River Camp

2012 Season – Camp Closure

kafue-river — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:04:27 +0000

Due to poor Rains at the beginning of 2012, the river level has been dropping dramatically, forcing us to pull the boats out of the water early October. Therefore we decided to close the camp slightly earlier this year (18 Nov), and will reopen for Easter at the end of March 2013.

2011 End of season closure

kafue-river — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:50:40 +0000

Please note that KRC will be closing at the end of November 2011.

Also, due to the river being so low, boat activities are not possible from mid-October onwards.

August 2011

kafue-river — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:15:37 +0000

Feedback from Jackie Connor:-
1. The story of the young hartebeest:- A baby hartebeest joined a herd of impala as an orphan. Mother obviously killed by something. The hartebeest was smaller than the impala. Newton thought it had died as he had not seen it for a long time but on a drive we saw the herd of impala with a lovely young hartebeest, now quite a bit bigger than them and with little horns.
2. Walk up the hill. I went into the national park on a walk with Newton, the game scout and 4 others. We were taken up a hill and had lovely views of the national park. Really interesting – out for about 3 hours. While up at the top we watched a huge bushbaby in a tree.
3. Hot springs-fantastic! So interesting again. You drive back towards the pontoon and not far from the pontoon you turn right down a little track. There is no sign. There are three beautiful hot springs, lots of steam coming out of them and the water is so hot you can only just put your finger in. Lots of animals have been nibbling the minerals there.
4. We saw two groups of three wattle cranes in the dambo on the same side of the hot springs.
5. Lots of game on the GMA side. Just in your area we saw puku, impala, bushbuck, kudu, oribi, duiker, warthog, ground hornbills and had more than one lion walk along the track just behind the chalets.
6. Heard lion and leopard at night. On our last evening we were sitting by the fire and a lion roared from directly opposite us on the bank. It was amazing.
7. Bird watching was fantastic.

The Swiss group also saw sable.

Newsletter No.2 – May 2011

kafue-river — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:16:14 +0000

No.2, 2011

Kitchen Staff

kafue-river — Sun, 01 May 2011 05:34:19 +0000

Percy & Freddy in front of the pizza oven.

Newsletter No.1 – January 2011

kafue-river — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:06:31 +0000

No.1, 2011

Austin Wienand

kafue-river — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:55:15 +0000

This season we welcome Chriss’ brother, Austin to the KRC team. Austin is a veteran of the bush and has many years’ guiding and fishing experience – don’t be afraid to pick his brains! He will be working at KRC as Camp Supervisor.

Animals you are less likely to see, but are in the area

kafue-river — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:45:41 +0000

• Cheetah
• Leopard
• Haartebeest
• Sable

Animals you are likely to see around Camp

kafue-river — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:44:25 +0000

• Elephant
• Lion
• Hippo
• Warthog
• Puku
• Impala
• Zebra
• Crocodile

Alternative route through Lusaka onto Mumbwa (west) road

kafue-river — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:11:32 +0000

Map thru Lsk to Mumbwa Rd