Welcome to King Lewanika Lodge in Liuwa Plain National Park

The camp has six open-front tented safari suites (including a two-bedroom, two-bathroom family suite) and is built using local techniques and sustainable materials. They run on solar power and are furnished using vintage leather, cotton, and canvas—a nod to old-world safari days. They are designed to completely immerse you in the vast landscape, each has an indoor and outdoor shower, a comfortable lounge, and a verandah, all with stunning views over the plains.

Most of the big game in Liuwa tends to congregate in large herds – blue wildebeest, zebra, tsessebe. This has had the Park being said to have the 2^nd largest wildebeest migration, with an estimated 45,000 plus herd during the rainy season. Smaller herds of buffalo, red lechwe, eland, Lichtenstein’s hartebeest and roan antelope, reedbuck, and oribi are also common. Buffalo have been reintroduced into the Park and are increasing in number. Sitatunga have also been sighted on edge of the park. Predators of Liuwa include lion, leopard (not often seen), cheetah (numbers are growing steadily), wild dog and hyena. Sitatunga have also been sighted on edge of the park.

Over 330 bird species have been recorded in Liuwa. Crowned crane, wattled cranes, pelicans, storks (saddle-billed, yellow-billed, open-billed, marabou), herons, spoonbills, egrets, plovers, spur-winged, pygmy geese, egrets are sighted during the wet season, making for some exceptional birding. Also common in the Park are secretary birds, Denham’s and white-bellied bustards, plus large numbers of the migrant black-winged pratincoles. The pink-billed and clapper larks, swamp boubou, rosy-breasted longclaw, sharp-tailed starling, long-tailed widow and white-cheeked bee-eater are great highlights of the Liuwa. Martial eagles, palmnut vultures and fish eagles, Pel’s fishing owl are others to look out for.