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The Bushcamp Company The Bushcamp Company is the largest safari company in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia.

We operate eight award winning camps inside the iconic South Luangwa National Park — Mfuwe Lodge, The Villas at KuKaya, and six remote bushcamps.

18/10/2026

In the valley, a thatched roof isn’t decoration. It’s a skill.

Here, our team re-thatches The Family House at Mfuwe Lodge — our private house for families, with two en-suite bedrooms, an enclosed garden and pool, a firepit, pizza oven and braai for evenings outdoors. Thatch keeps the rooms cool through the heat and quiet through the rains, but it asks for care, and in time it’s stripped and laid anew by hand.

This is the unseen half of hospitality: the maintenance that keeps our properties standing, season after season.

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14/10/2026

Nothing is wasted in the valley.

A lioness moves low through the mud toward a buffalo that didn’t make it — one of the hard truths of the dry season, when shrinking waterholes draw the herds to drink and their softening margins turn treacherous. A buffalo already weakened by drought, age, or illness can become mired in the deep mud, unable to haul its weight back to solid ground.

What ends one life in the valley sustains another. The lioness simply answers the oldest call there is.

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11/10/2026

It looks like pure joy — and perhaps some of it is — but there's method in it too. A good dust bath coats the coat in a fine layer of earth that helps dislodge parasites, soothe biting insects, and lift away loose hair and dead skin. It's grooming, sun protection, and relief from the flies, all in one roll.

05/10/2026

How far would you travel to see a herd of buffalo?

At Mfuwe Lodge, the answer is roughly as far as your deck chair. As the dry season draws on and water grows scarce, the water beside the rooms becomes a daily stop for the herds. Pour a coffee, sit down, and let the bush come to you.



02/10/2026

South Luangwa after dark.

Zambia is one of the few places in Africa where night drives are permitted within a national park, and South Luangwa is where the practice began. The reason becomes clear within minutes of the sun going down: this is when the predators get to work.

Two leopards, one tree, one antelope. Filmed on a night drive from Mfuwe Lodge.

29/09/2026

Did you know that the Big Five have very little to do with size?

Lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros. Five animals grouped together long ago on the strength of how much respect each demanded when met at close quarters — and how little inclined any of them was to give ground.

The phrase has travelled a long way since. What has not changed is the feeling of it: the moment a buffalo herd turns to face you, or a leopard settles into a branch and looks down. Our guides will tell you the list is only a starting point. The Valley has a great deal more to offer than five names

28/09/2026

What does a safari booking actually pay for?

The obvious answer is the bed, the vehicle, the guide, the meals. The less obvious answer is a delivery of Thobwa to five schools around Mfuwe, a meal in front of a schoolchild every school day, a borehole sunk where the walk to water was too long, and research quietly logging what the wildlife in this valley is doing and why.

Meal a Day has been running for years now. It is not complicated — it is food, delivered consistently, to children who are otherwise learning on empty stomachs — and consistency is most of what makes it work. The boreholes are the same kind of thinking. So is this week's delivery.

The point is that none of it is separate from the guest experience. It is funded by it. Every reservation with The Bushcamp Company goes into community and conservation work in the Valley, whether or not you ever see the classroom it reaches.

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+260978770055

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