Safari & Fishing Adventure

The camp  is located on the banks of the Zambezi River, at the heart of Zambia. This exclusive safari camp, featured on the BBC�s Holiday Ten Best programme, specializes in affording you our guests the very best game viewing, with traditional safari style. Only the very highest international standards in luxury and service are offered and are combined with this truly classic African wildlife experience.

Our Camp offers a large range of game-viewing activities including: game-drives (both day and night), walking safaris, canoeing, boating and fishing for the world-renowned "Tiger fish". Fly-fishing, bait and spinning are the three most successful methods of fishing we practice. With personalized guiding, our guests decide exactly what activity they would like to take and when.

The camp�s "French trained" chef creates cuisine from his bush kitchen that has given him the reputation as one of Zambia�s finest chef�s. Three course meals are prepared and enjoyed under the African sky, with white linen and atmospheric candlelight. We have an open bar policy, so our guests are free to indulge as they so choose.


Fully inclusive of all meals, beverages, activities, park fees, laundry, flights to/from Lusaka and Jeki.

Day 1.  Arrive to Lusaka.  Transfer by light aircraft to Jeki Airstrip.  One hour game drive to the lodge.  Check in and lunch.  Afternoon boat (fishing) cruise with sundowners on the Zambezi.

Day 2.  Early morning game drive. Lunch at 12:00. Afternoon fishing (tigershish).  Optional night drive when the boat returns to camp.

Day 3.  Canoe trip down the Chifungulu Channel. Lunch at 12:00 (Surprise picnic in the Zambezi).  Afternoon game drive (or fishing), sundowners, followed by a night drive.

Day 4.  Early morning walking safari.  Lunch at 12:00.  Boat cruise/fishing, followed by an optional night drive.  Bush dinner.

Day 5.  Early morning fly-fishing. Lunch at 12:00. Afternoon/night game drive

Day 6.  Early morning walking safari.  Lunch at 12:00.  Afternoon gamedrive, sundowners, followed by a night drive.

Day 7.  Depending on time of connecting flight, you may have the option of a morning activity, otherwise early morning transfer to Jeki Airstrip for flight back to Lusaka.

The camp has a large variety of faunal species including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects, distributed in varying densities and in complex and diverse eco-systems.

During your stay in the Lower Zambezi, you will have a very good chance of seeing the following large mammals: elephant, hippo, buffalo, waterbuck, zebra, impala, bushbuck and kudu.

Of the carnivores, there are solid numbers of leopard, lion and hyena.

Other commonly seen animals are wild dog (african hunting dog); serval and the african wild cat.

Smaller animals include the side striped jackal; dwarf, slender & banded mongoose; large spotted genet; civet; tree squirrel; honey badger; porcupine and aardvark.

Safari & Fishing Adventure - This National Park is a relatively new National Park, officially gazetted as a National Park in 1983. The Zambezi Escarpment along the northern boundary towers above the Zambezi River & Valley, which also forms part of the Southern limit of the Great East African Rift Valley.  With a river frontage of about 120km, the valley floor and the Escarpment combined with the plateau gives the Lower Zambezi magnificent picturesque scenery, providing a memorable experience for any visitor.  Though, it is the Zambezi Valley and the river that captures all of the game.  

The park is opposite to Mana Pools National Park, a World Heritage Site across the frontier in Zimbabwe, but has the added advantage of the Rift Valley wall and the Escarpment.  The park receives few visitors today, yet it won�t be long before the great potential is realised and the solitude experience that makes this park - �The Real Africa�, slowly becomes more and more like the other crowded parks throughout Africa.  
The Zambezi River is host to some of the most spectacular fresh water sport fishing in the world.The most sporting and certainly the most fun to catch is the famous "tiger fish". Renowned for their strength and spectacular "leaping out of the water" fighting performance, there is little question why both experts and novices get excited from the moment it strikes and to the time it is held in hand for that classic photo album shot. A relative of the infamous piranha, tigers have large carnivorous teeth and can grow to 15kg (33lb). Though much larger, the "Vundu" is the largest fish in the Zambezi River and grow well over 50kg (110lb). A little like catching a crocodile! Sausage Tree Camp supplies both regular and fly-fishing equipment, which is ideal for all three mentioned species, plus the boats, fuel and guide, all of which is fully supplied at no extra cost. Our guides are trained and know the best places to lure them onto the hook. The camp has two large and very stable aluminium speed boats, plus one smaller fibreglass speed boat, which is more like a typical bass fishing boat and perfect for the real enthusiast.

The camp hosts a maximum of twelve guests, accommodated in six "Bedouin-style" tents dotted discreetly along the riverbank. The tents are spacious islands of cool minimalist style including solid Zambian teak furniture and sumptuous four-poster beds, each serviced by it�s own Muchinda (private butler). Each tent�s highlight is the unique open-air ensuite bathroom for which the camp has become renowned - including a luxurious �loo with a view�.  The honeymoon suite also has a bath and view to marry for�

September through to December: The warmer (hot) months of the year are definitely the best time of the year to catch the tiger fish. This is also the breeding season, when the fish are much more active, feeding more regularly and far more aggressively.  The water level is typically lower and the visibility at its very best.

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