Chiawa Safaris - Old Mondoro

About an hour east downstream by boat from sister camp Chiawa, Old Mondoro is located in the wonderfully open area of Faidherbia Forest. The camp is completely solar powered and is a far simpler affair than Chiawa yet the guiding levels, activity choice, service and excellent home-cooking remain on par.

The comfortable rooms are strung out along a hippo-friendly channel off the Zambezi, enjoying great views with their half-height walls and timber decks. Activities at Old Mondoro focus on game drives, walks, canoeing and boating, though the elephant and hippo activity around camp are enough to encourage a lodge-based safari!

Delicious meals are served fireside or in the open-sided thatched dining room, and star-gazing in this remote spot makes a perfect pastime. You might also want to enjoy an in-room massage treatment between safari activities.

Combine a couple of nights at Old Mondoro with a few nights at Chiawa Camp, via the Best of Both Worlds 5 night or 7 night specials for the very best, best value and most varied safari experience on offer on the the Lower Zambezi. Or really push the boat out and add a few nights stay at the recently rebuilt Puku Ridge in the South Luangwa National Park, now under Chiawa Safaris management.

Old Mondoro, completely solar, is set in a grove of Acacia trees that tower above the massive elephant bulls that seem to be constantly feeding on them. On the banks of the Zambezi River in the Lower Zambezi National Park some 35 km downstream from Chiawa Camp this is a beautiful and remote site overlooking a maze of hippo-inhabited islands and channels. With only 5 rooms, 10 beds, Old Mondoro is the Lower Zambezi’s most intimate and private safari camp.

Old Mondoro's setting is exquisite, one of the few safari camps with views in all directions, from one's chair - to the south the spectacular Zambezi river and its islands sprinkled with wildlife, swivel around to face north and see beautiful woodland full of towering trees dwarfing the impalas, waterbuck, buffalo and elephants. A fun addition is Old Mondoro's outdoor "loo with a view" overlooking the Zambezi and its wildlife that includes some of the best aardvark and wild dog sightings in Africa.

If you wish to be truly immersed in nature but with all the comforts then look no further than Old Mondoro.