THE CHIBEMBE CAMP
Four tents.
Built for family.
Offered to the few.
Chibembe was not built for a market. It was built as a private family compound — designed around the rhythms of multigenerational life in the African bush, and loved before it was ever offered to guests.
Stone, thatch, canvas, and wood — the materials of the valley. The lounge carries the heritage of this ground on its walls: Luangwa maps, archival imagery, the objects of seven decades of guiding tradition. The firepit sits at the confluence, on the same bank Norman Carr first walked.
THE FIREPIT
The story
begins here.
On the first evening, the guide gathers guests at the firepit on the Luangwa bank. The fire burns. Chibembe Island is a dark shape across the main channel. The hippos graze in the darkness beyond.
The guide tells the story of this ground — the confluence, the annual flood, the silt, and why Norman Carr walked here. After that night, the walks carry a different weight.
ACCOMMODATION
Four luxury tents, woodland above the river
RATE
USD 15,000 per day · fully inclusive
CONFIGURATION
Private hire only · whole camp
CAPACITY
Eight guests · flexes to seventeen
SEASON
May through November
BOOKING
Via The Bushcamp Company
