Nanzhila Plains Camp
Rustic-comfortable bush camp with a teak deck lounge · Nanzhila Plains, far south, on a dambo edge · Nanzhila Safaris, Steve and Cindy Smith
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Mid-range
Inside the park
Owner/family-run
The southern sector's game-viewing heart, marketed as the home of the predators and delivering the park's best small-carnivore night drives. Counter-intuitively it runs the shortest season in Kafue, mid-June to mid-October, because season length here tracks ground conditions rather than latitude.
Why you'd pick it
- 27 mammal species recorded in two game drives
- The best small-carnivore night drives in Kafue: serval, genet, civet
- Five and a half to six hours' drive from Livingstone
What's here
- Wi-Fi
- En-suite bathrooms
- Solar or 24h power
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Night drives
Read from Nanzhila Plains Camp's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Kafue National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryThere is no self-drive surcharge here.
- $20per person, per day
- VehicleForeign-registered vehicle under 3 tonnes.
- $15per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $165 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
The full fee schedule for Kafue National ParkRates
From $275 pppn. The best value of the southern camps.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Indicative 2026 rates from operators' own rate cards and published tariffs, gathered July 2026. Many Kafue camps quote on enquiry only. Watch two things when comparing: whether park fees are included (Mayukuyuku and Konkamoya include them, most others do not), and conservation levies of $30 to $40 a night at some camps. A caution on older guides: Lufupa River Camp, Lufupa Tented Camp, Leopard Lodge and Puku Pan all appear closed or dormant, Mukambi Plains Camp is simply the old name of Busanga Plains Camp, and the Jeffery & McKeith brand merged into Classic Zambia Safaris. We list none of them as live options.