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Luangwa Valley: Chinzombo Camp, Zambia

From the mouths of babes - 'thrilling, the bed like sleeping on a cloud and the sunrise over the Luangwa - magical!' was the award winning architects and designers, Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens, review of Chinzombo after aptly being the first to test out Villa One.

Norman Carr Safaris are days away from opening this latest groundbreaking camp in Zambia's Luangwa Valley and in keeping with their ever innovative and pioneering ways are the first to take luxury to another level in this area. They are thrilled to be giving their traditional green season stomping ground a new lease on life, offering as yet unseen levels of comfort, style and elegance with spacious living areas that melt into the site's exquisite surroundings.

An enclave of giant, ancient trees provide a peaceful shaded setting for the six spacious villas, each with its own private plunge pool, cooled sleeping areas, and massive bathroom with exclusive spa amenities. One of the villas is a suite with extra space for families or small groups.

Chinzombo is surrounded by 60 acres of private land with Luangwa River frontage which the camp design has taken full advantage of with views to die for of the riverside and infinite wildlife. It also boasts private, direct access into one of the most game rich areas of the South Luangwa National Park.

The second to none luxury & wildlife experience which Chinzombo offers, allows Norman Carr Safaris to create unique and exclusive adventures for the most discerning of guests. Be the first of such guests to sample Chinzombo's charm when it opens its doors to this wild playground. Contact Norman Carr Safaris direct or one of the Good Safari Guide's experts.

http://www.normancarrsafaris.com

http://www.goodsafariguide.com/

Luangwa Safari House

Luangwa Safari House

In Zambia, we encountered death in the afternoon not twenty minutes from Mfuwe Airport, in the form of a family of hyenas gnawing on a buffalo carcass.

But our welcome at Luangwa Safari House was all civilized gentility. Khaki-uniformed staff greeted us with chilled hand towels and fruit juice cocktails.

Elephants were padding down to the lagoon next to the house, including a baby so young it fit beneath its mother’s belly and tripped over its own trunk. When the elephants were finished, a dazzle, or herd, of plains zebra took a turn, followed by a journey of Thornicroft’s giraffe and a sounder of warthogs.

The cheeky baboons hadn’t yet learned their manners. When we got up from the outdoor lunch table to look at some ground hornbills, an adolescent baboon leapt onto the deck and snatched a butter ramekin, racing away to lick the contents like a guilty child with a stolen cookie jar.

Luangwa Safari House was the brainchild of Jo Pope, wife of the legendary Zambian walking safari guide Robin Pope. The couple realized that their own fully walled three-room residence—with its pool and terrace overlooking the Luangwa River—would be ideal accommodations for parents of young children anxious about the wilderness setting. But while perfectly comfortable, their house wasn’t quite luxurious enough for style-conscious sorts wanting privacy from the main lodge, so Jo Pope hired Neil Rocher, a South African former guide who had launched a second career designing boutique safari lodging.

For Luangwa Safari House, Rocher set twenty-five leadwood tree trunks into the concrete foundation of a “grove” and built walls that followed the tree branches’ flowing curves. The stone-walled front entrance looks like a castle, with two rounded turrets topped by a witch’s hat–shaped thatched roof. A huge, asymmetrically planked front door pivots open to reveal a living room soaring under a 40-foot ceiling and completely open at the back, leading the eyes straight to the landscape and an ever-changing wildlife tableau.

The wraparound deck at Private Camp. Except for mealtimes, when a chef and butler are on hand, guests have the complex to themselves.

From the four bedrooms I selected an upstairs suite that had a drawbridge-style balcony overlooking the lagoon. The Diva took a ground-floor room with a polished copper tub. “Please refrain from taking your siesta outside by the pool,” our hostess, Irene Hinaran, had warned during the house tour. “There are wild animals here, and they will eat you.” At dusk staff blocked off walls and windows with grates that allowed us to see outdoors, while keeping monkeys and larger animals (but not bats) at bay.

During dinner, the maître d’ interrupted our beef and mushroom stew with a stage whisper: “Excuse me, mesdames, but something is happening to the moon.” A lunar eclipse was under way, and we broke the do-not-under-any-circumstances-leave-the-house-after-dark rule to join the kitchen gang watching a full moon turn a smoldering earthworm-pink, as if it had molted into a still-furled, newborn creature.

In the night, I heard the rumbling “hunnhh, hunnhh” of two male lions calling. I knew from experience that safari newbies fall into two categories: people who think wild animals exist to be photographed, and those who become seized by primeval fear. “Susan, I don’t think I can do this,” The Diva said, clawing my arm when Kanga Banda, our game guide turned up the next morning to lead our half-day walking safari. A 30-year-old Zambian dead ringer for Chris Rock, he cajoled her into a pontoon boat across the slow-flowing Luangwa River. We were met by the ranger and a four-by-four vehicle on the opposite bank inside the park and drove to a plain where some female puku antelopes were grazing, stalked by a nervous, rutting male with swept-back spiral horns. The guide parked under a tree; no lions in sight, we got out and walked single file into the bush, me dressed in insect repellent–impregnated khakis, The Diva exposed to tsetse flies in strapless Lululemon yoga gear. I’d been looking forward to getting up close to at least a few of the park’s 60 mammal species and 400 bird species, but to calm my friend’s nerves I said we’d be happy just to walk for a little while and look at plants and insects.

Norman Carr, Zambia’s original walking safari guru and Robin Pope’s mentor, earned fame for safely guiding clients within pouncing distance of lions and leopards and within stomping and goring distance of elephants, black rhinos, and African buffalo. 

To build up The Diva’s confidence, we played chicken with an ant lion—the larva of a dragon-type fly—gently poking a twig into the inverted cone of its sandy trap; we were rewarded by the sight of pincer jaws, monstrously out of proportion to the larva’s body, snapping at what it thought was an ant. On our “Little Five” safari, we spotted the buffalo weaver (a bird) but struck out on the rhinoceros beetle, leopard tortoise, and the elephant shrew.

During a late-afternoon game drive, The Diva had her first big cat encounter when we followed baboon alarm calls and found the agitated troop high in mopane tree branches. On the ground, three large males bared their teeth and mock-charged a young female leopard. She turned, paused oh so casually, and climbed a termite mound to glare down at us all. Leaving the spotted princess, we proceeded to the riverbank for sundown aperitifs.

In the middle of our last night in Zambia, The Diva was awakened by the noise of tearing branches and made out through the screens of her room the immense silhouettes of elephants using their trunks to strip leaves. “The sound of their breathing was like a giant purr,” she marveled to me later. Instead of reaching for her emergency whistle, she had parted the mosquito netting, gotten out of bed, and peered into the dark with her nose against the screen. “Those sounds were so delicious in the darkness that my conservative instincts were overcome with curiosity,” she admitted. Perhaps the animals with night vision were equally transfixed. In the middle of the equivalent of a lighted window, The Diva stood, onstage, in their jungle.

Excerpted from an article by Susan Hack

Norman Carr’s Chinzombo Camp in the Luangwa Valley

Opening June 2013.

Wildly luxurious , designed by award winning architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens, this camp will bring levels of comfort, style and elegance previously unseen in the Luangwa Valley.

The old Chinzombo Camp was for years the green season base for Norman Carr way back in the 1970’s. We are thrilled to be giving this unique place a new lease of life. The camp is planned to be super-luxurious with spacious living areas that melt into the exquisite surroundings of the beautiful, tranquil site.

Gigantic, ancient shade trees offer peace and tranquility for guests staying in any one of the six spacious villas, one of which is a suite with extra space for families or small groups. Each villa will have its own private plunge pool, cooled sleeping areas, and massive bathroom with luxurious spa amenities.

The camp is set within 60 acres of private land with Luangwa River frontage; the views from its riverside location which teems with wildlife, plus the private, direct access into one of the most game rich areas of the National Park all combine to make this a truly special place.

Throughout its history, NCS has always innovated. The first camps, the first walking safaris, the first community projects, the first bush camps, the first all Zambian expert guiding team, the list of firsts is a long one! We’re proud to continue that tradition and be the first to bring this level of design and luxury innovation to the Luangwa allowing us to create unique and exclusive adventures for the most discerning of guests.

Chinzombo Camp will be the perfect place from which to explore the majestic wilds of the Luangwa in style, luxury and exclusivity – all year round.

http://www.normancarrsafaris.com

Zambia in all its glory

Zambia is regarded by many as one of the last true wildernesses and this continent's greatest secret. From the mighty Victoria Falls to the world renowned National Parks of the Luangwa and Zambezi Valleys there are incredible opportunities to explore and a vast range of habitats, species, terrain and natural wonders.

Visitor numbers are small - Zambia is not on the main ‘tourist trail’. Her vast areas of pristine wilderness have remained unchanged for millennia and the opportunity to explore these areas and to see the wildlife that inhabits them without having to share the experience with too many others is a privilege hard to find these days.

Norman Carr, the pioneer of the walking safari said that from a vehicle you can see Africa but when on foot you experience and feel Africa. You become part of the landscape, no longer just a spectator.

Conservation and creating opportunities in our local community remain priorities, and guiding is still based on the principles that Norman developed. We are all proud to continue in his footsteps and carry on his legacy.

The guides in Zambia, particularly Luangwa Guides, are renowned as the best in Africa; two guides from the Luangwa Valley have come first or second in Wanderlust’s Guide of the World Awards including our very own Abraham Banda in 2010.

The guiding team at Norman Carr Safaris is widely regarded as one of the most experienced and knowledgeable in Zambia - many were trained by Norman Carr himself. The Company has set up and is committed to a program of guide exchanges allowing us to expand our knowledge by experiencing similar wilderness operations both in other Parks in Zambia and also around the world such as Knight Inlet, Canada.

Every visitor to Zambia will leave with memories of the friendly welcome they received. It’s a big country – bigger that France but with a population of only around 13 million (UN 2010).

There are many different tribes and speak many different languages but the official language is English and the overriding attitude is one of great happiness and friendliness.

http://www.normancarrsafaris.com

Norwegian government injects over K200 billion in South Luangwa

THE Norwegian government has injected over K200 billion to support the South Luangwa National Park which attracts, annually, more than 30, 000 tourists to Zambia’s premier wildlife tourism destination.

Norwegian Ambassador to Zambia Arve Ofstad said the contribution to boost the domestic tourism in the park has been made over a period of 27 years.

“Since 1983, we have been working together with Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) authorities, local communities and tourism industry to attract more tourists to the park which has diverse fauna and over 100 animals’ species with 450 species of birds,” Mr Ofstad said.

He said this during the handover of earth moving equipment and the South Luangwa Area Management Unit (SLAMU) project to Government last week in Mfuwe.

The SLAMU project has helped to improve the park administration and management, curb illegal hunting of wild animals such as elephants and opened up new tourists’ roads in the park, among others.

The project is a multi-million dollar programme that was established in the Luangwa Valley in 1986. It was initially launched as a pilot project in Lupande game management area with the aim of integrating local communities to strike a balance between conservation of wildlife resources and meeting human needs.

The project has also seen five airfields being constructed at Kapamba, Luamfwa, Lundu, Chamboo and Kauluzi to facilitate tourism.

Mr Ofstad said Norway has invested in the park because of importance it attaches to the tourism sector considering that South Luangwa National Park is one of the largest national game parks in Africa offering tourists a unique experience of the real wild Africa.

And Tourism and Arts deputy minister Keith Mukata said culture is the foundation of tourism which attracts tourists who enjoy sampling local wildlife and the way Zambians live.

Mr Mukata said inadequate funding has been an impediment of the sector not only in Zambia but world over.

He said South Luangwa National Park is rated as one of the premier hunting safaris in southern Africa, hence, the need for concerted efforts from all stakeholders such as the community and other partners like Norway and the local traditional leaders.

He urged the donor community both local and international to find solutions to the challenges being faced in managing national parks.

Original article can be found here:

http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=642:norwegian-government-injects-over-k200-billion-in-south-luangwa&Itemid=188

Norman Carr to open luxury lodge in Luangwa Valley

Zambia-based tour operator Norman Carr Safaris will open the first luxury sustainable lodge named Chinzombo in Luangwa Valley, Zambia, designed by the architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens.

Constructed with low-impact eco design, Chinzombo is a sustainable development which has used sustainably sourced materials as well as local building methods and craftspeople. Combining modernist architectural forms, organic geometry and regional materials of indigenous Zambian building methods, the designers have created the luxurious bush camp.

Located on the site of one of Norman’s original camps, Chinzombo features six WiFi-equipped spacious villas, one with capacity to accommodate a family of five. The villas, which appear to float over the landscape, are nestled within the shade of ancient trees on a ridge which follows a loop in the Luangwa River.

Constructed with minimum design lines, the villas feature a steel-framed structure, which creates a contrasting design with the décor and interiors. To facilitate the comfort and luxury elements of the guests, the villas feature large, cooled bedrooms, luxurious bathrooms and private plunge pools on shady decks overlooking the Luangwa River.

The materials which are used in the development are natural, including locally-produced leather, reed-work and canvas while floors are made of recycled composite timber. There is little concrete or brick, with the décor also featuring raw linen, timber, copper and hand-made crockery. 

The interiors feature local art pieces from local weavers, pottery makers and carvers.

To add more beauty to the place, the new bush camp features a winding foot path shaded by mahogany trees, which connects the accommodation and lounge/dining area. Apart from that, it also features a yoga and exercise area and spa facilities.

Featuring vast tracts of landscaping, game fences, roads or other man-made installations, the Chinzombo is located in a place where both wildlife and natural vegetation flourish.

Chinzombo is scheduled to open in March 2013.

Original post:

http://www.worldinteriordesignnetwork.com/news/norman_carr_to_open_luxury_lodge_in_luangwa_valley_121108/