Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia - Sausage Tree Safari Camp

Sausage Tree Camp offers some of the finest game viewing in natural habitats anywhere in Africa. It's location within the Lower Zambezi National Park on the banks of the Zambezi River means that game viewing activities take place both on the water, by boat and canoes, and on the land by four-wheel drive game viewing vehicles or on foot (bush walks). The camp is well equipped with game viewing vehicles, boats and canoes allowing us to easily cater to the personal and individual needs of all our guests.

Sausage Tree Camp employs the most knowledgeable and experienced guides. All of our guides are fully trained, licensed and have many years of experience, ensuring that the highest quality of guiding and safety standards are achieved. We pride ourselves on our development programme for our junior guides.

Safety is our very first concern during all our activities. All of the boats and vehicles are fitted with VHF radios, for direct communications back to camp and carry a first-aid kit. All guides have first aid training and camp has direct communications back to our head office in Lusaka (the capital of Zambia).

Recent sightings

With October heat arriving and the thinning of the bush we are starting to get more and more animals visiting camp and the river. Besides the large elephant breeding herds passing through camp on their way through to the river to swim and feed on the islands in front of the pool and dining  area we are getting the big tusked elephant bulls hanging around  feeding on the winter thorn pods, what a magnificent sights seeing these gentle giants moving between the tents methodically picking up pods with their prehensile trunks. Large herds of buffalo are also regular visitors on the islands feeding on the reeds. A honey badger is seen regularly inspecting our Kitchen security in the early hours of the morning when the ladies open up for breakfast, and the resident porcupines are seen  scurrying in the undergrowth of the natal mahoganies in the late evenings as guests are retiring to bed. As the bush is so thin we can hear the lion often just behind camp moving through. The lioness with two 5 month old cubs has now starting to introduced them to the pride and they are seen on occasions in the prides company. Our local leopard with her two six month old cubs is a special sighting  and the cubs have become more bold and have been seen playing and relaxing in the fork of an African mangostien tree.