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is a very special lodge in Zambia on the Kafue River
Puku Pan Safari Lodge Zambia
the lodge on Kafue River
Best time to go May - November
Puku Pan Safari Lodge is a small but unique lodge on an isolated stretch of the Kafue River in the Namwala West game management area. It is about a four hours drive or a 40-minute flight from Lusaka and is located deep in brachystegia woodland that is broken by extraordinarily shaped Kopjes. For those interested in bird life or fishing, Puku Pan is a delight; well over three hundred species of birds have been identified in the area and bream, barbell, catfish and pike are plentiful.
For those interested in wildlife and conservation, the populations of kudu, impala, puku, hartebeest and bushbuck are high while those of kudu, elephant, zebra and lion are growing as the game conservation efforts of the lodge owners' begin to re-establish control over poaching and the animals recognize the lodge and its environs as a safe haven. About a kilometer inland from the river is an huge blackened Kopje dominating the woodland and breakfast here or a drive or walk with skilled armed guides through the undisturbed bush and vleis around it give a feeling of what the first explorers must have felt as they traversed and mapped this beautiful landscape.
Description
Lodging in Kafue National Park.
Safarilodge Zambia
A place of peace in the heart of the wilds
Deep in Zambia, on the banks of the Kafue River, there is a game park of over a million acres. The second largest park in the world. A place where hippos rule the waters, lions the land and the fish eagles the sky. This is the Kafue National Park. Some thirty years ago, the Kafue River, a tributary of the mighty Zambezi, flooded its banks. In the long grass pan that formed, herds of graceful puku came to graze. It was here that Rob Buske, a local farmer, conservationist and honorary ranger chose a beautiful but remote site to build Puku Pan Safari Lodge. Nowadays the lodge is runned truly Zambian style by Matthews.
The unique lodge offers excellent opportunities for: Game viewing (hippo, lion, elephant, antelope species, warthog, zebra, etcetera) Birding (well over four hundred species have been identified in the area) Fishing (pike, bream, silver barbell and catfish are plentiful)
