The lodge has 5 safari-style tents built on a wooden platform with en-suite toilet, wash-bassin and hot and cold shower. Each tent is equipped with 2 beds, mosquito nets, a bench and a solar powered rechargeable lamp. Bath and handtowels, soap, a fly-spray and a flask with filtered water are provided.
For a family we can offer our 2 rooms family house.
Staying at Luangwa Wilderness Lodge people acitively contribute to our Conservation and Community programms do define Luambe NP and bring income and developpment to the people of the area. There is an on-air dining area and a seperated campground is available.

Luangwa Wilderness Lodge lies in the remote wilderness of Luambe Nat. Park sandwiched between North & South Luangwa NP. It can be reached by car (4x4 track and a drive of approx. 3to4 h.) or by charterplane to our airstrip.

We generate all our energy through a solar power system.
We have a  generator  but only for back-up reasons.

At night we illuminate pathways by torches and solar-powered lanterns.
In the dining we use candles. Only electrial power we use is for fridges, deep-freeze, communication and kitchen light.

As we are in the middle of a national park we are not allowed to build a garden. But we assisted people in the village outside to start and grow a garden from which we buy as much as possible .
This is a small garden, not an industrial one, where no chemicals are used.

We still have to order and buy food supply from Lusaka but we try to buy as much as possible locally from the near-by villages such as rice, sweet potatoe, vegetables from the garden club. We bake our own bread.
We as well support a food programme, trying to gain independance from international markets for the people.

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As difficult to get and we are so remote, basically we use water and ordinary soap as well as oridnary washing power for laundry. But we try to improve on this issue as well.

For shower we pump up water from a well. We advice people to be as sensitive as possible, as we are not connected to a public water supply system.
Drinking water we purify using our own using porcelan filters.

We purify water by help of porcelan filters. This system is provided by Katadyn,  Swiss company which is the global number one in the field of water treatment and filter systems.

Luangwa Wilderness e. V. is a non-profit organisation founded in Germany. This NGO signed in 2002 a MoU with the Zambian Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) and was given the permission to manage and operate the Luambe National Park, with the aim to protect and conserve one of the remotest places in the Luangwa Valley.
Due to the fact that the scouts working in Luambe lack knowledge, equipment and motivation, this training will now be performed with all scouts from the Luambe area. The course is thought to bring about the needs in order to implement successful law enforcement in this NP. Equipment has also been purchased by our NGO and the first training course started this season.

The request for a “small project support” by the German embassy has been approved  for Establishment of effective anti poaching controls in Luambe NP and Lumimba GMA”, the conservation manager now has to specify the detailed activities, then requests the money in time and in November has report for when and where the money was spent.

All our staff comes from the local villages. Everything they know is a consequence of the training by us.
At present we have a woman from South Africa with us who gives our staff a 4 weeks professional hotel management training.

We hand out an information booklets (see attached) plus copies of the webpage and NL of our NGO.
A collection of press releases and articles are on display as well.

Clients often send us emails or letters after their return. We will as well provide an evaluation sheet being handed over to guests upon arrival.
So far I stored the feed-back on a file on my computer. We intend to scan any written evaluation and keep it on disc for records.

90 %. |  In line with the project management structure and our aim we have a senior manager from South Africa but our lodge manager in training is not only Zambain nationality he is from the local area as well as is the supervisor of our maintenance section. We formed a workers union among the staff and have a hierachy which enables people to step up the job ladder.

See attached files

Our main concept is to outsource community programmes, tourism and park development to an NGO and  increase numbers of animals by the mere fact of our presence, the support from local people and training of scouts.

In 2007 we had a team of Singaporean dentists staying with us who treated people from the village on a voluntary base. We provided the location for their work, did transfers and offered a complentary stay at the lodge for the length of that programme. ( see press articel attached)