Kubu Zambezi Campsite | Established Campground

March 15th, 2024 by roller-ball

if you look for a peaceful place before or after the buzz in Livingston, this is your destination. Hippos and crocs in the river, Fisch eagle, herons and kingfisher in the air. infrastructure offers all you need including a clean pool. Caring host Mark made our three day stay perfekt.

March 15th, 2024 by roller-ball

if you are looking for a place of peace before or after the buzz in Livingston, this is your destination. Hippos and crocs in the river, fish eagle, herons and kingfisher in the air. Infrastructure with all you need incl. lovely clean pool, caring host Mark made it a perfekt stay for us for three nights.

March 13th, 2024 by difficulthippopotamus57

Thanks Mark and Mark🙏You do a great jop👍. This ist the place to go If you are overlanding and you need a break.

March 1st, 2024 by my-trip-on-the-wild-side.com

Absolutely great place to stay. Very well maintained with good ablutions, communal kitchen and fireplaces. Very quiet and right at the Zambezi River. It’s well worth the money. We would have loved to stay longer, but unfortunately we’re running out of time. Highly recommended camp spot!

February 9th, 2024 by Kubu Zambezi Campsite

Hi,
We are the owners of Kubu Zambezi Campsite and are busy upgrading everything. The campground was closed for a few years through COVID but is now up and running. We have just laid all new water pipes throughout the site and have installed clean potable water. The shower and toilet block in the campsite have been upgraded with amazing water pressure. There is complimentary firewood and wifi may work as we have just setup Starlink so fingers crossed. The swimming pool has been re-plumbed and painted and perfect for respite from the heat. We will commence upgrading the cabins in the very near future. The sign will be back on the main road in the next few days but there are signs up along the road into the site.

July 14th, 2023 by BigGreen

We had stayed here 2 years ago and wanted to return. All signposts have been removed, but we reached the Kubu Zambezi camp following the signs to [questionmark?] camp / Zambezi Palm Camp and then kept right towards the coordinates.
We met the managers who are from New Zealand and the crew, they are doing some refurbishing of the chalets and working hard to make it nicer.
So it is open, at least for camping (15 US $ ppn), using one of the chalets for the (open air) bathroom, as they were just fixing the ablutions on the campsite side.
It is such an amazing place, so even "half-open", it is worth a stay. We had a hippo visiting from the bush next to us at dusk and some more around the lagoon.

April 23rd, 2023 by BlueCruiser

We tried to make a booking on the phone number +260977360469 and received a whatsapp back as follows:

"Hi I can recommend ? Mark campsite next to kubu as we have closed"

This campsite is permanently closed.

November 15th, 2022 by eric.a.burger

This place is very much open and it's a very pleasant place to stay. Don't take too much notice of recent negative comments.

July 26th, 2022 by leroyjsmith

Waste of time. Not recommended. Falling apart. No maintenance done. Looks as if the place is closed. Left and found another place

July 22nd, 2022 by mariuslategan

We booked a campsite for the night but on arrival we decided to move on.

July 12th, 2022 by tdupin

a little bit run down after 2 very difficult Corona years but still a wonderfull and quite place to stay on the shore of the Zambezi river.

December 11th, 2021 by Stiebilli op Jöck

We really enjoyed this quiet place as there was no other guests. Shady and grassy place under big trees. There is a big boma with two wooden chairs and benches, a kitchen area and a braai stand. Kabby, the catetaker is really attentive and cleaned everything when we arrived. Campsite is 15 US$ or 250 ZMK pppn. The cabins need maintenance - so they don't rent them out.

September 22nd, 2021 by Instagram: @savannatales

Very nice and peaceful spot to the river and fully in the nature, green and shady even in dry season. Good facilities. Still 15USppn.

May 2nd, 2021 by BigGreen

We found this camp by chance, it is not really signposted from the main road (where there is a sign to Zambezi Palm Camp), and it is beautiful. Friendly managers, great hot outdoor showers, they made fire for us by the river at night, and since we were alone, we switched off all the lights at night for better stargazing. There were hippos grunting nearby. Worth the price 15 US $ ppn, but you can also pay in Kwacha.

April 19th, 2021 by jonct85

Well maintained shady location on the bank of the Zambezi. We'll signposted from the main road. Great hosts in an altogether welcoming and peaceful location.

July 11th, 2020 by jcgvdb

Very nice campsite with good view over the Zambezi River. Clean ablutions and nice outdoor shower(hot). There are picnick tables, fire places and a braai area. Nice to have a shelter for the sun when it is to hot. We saw giraffe's on the Zim site. The manager is very friendly and welcoming. We can highly recommend this place!

November 16th, 2019 by onlyME

quite and shady, directly at the Zambezi river. With grass and big trees, also covered spaces, kitchen area, braai station, fire places. very friendly staff.
due to electricity shortages there wasn'
t water at first, but staff organising water for
the toilet. later hot shower and working
ablutions

October 8th, 2019 by Willy

Nice place shady place USD 15 pppn. We were the only guests. Very friendly receptionist. Due to electricity shortages we had no power, it came on in the middle of the night and was off again at 6 am. Saw Crocodiles in the river and heard the lions on the opposite side in Zimbabwe. Hot showers, and working ablutions.

July 2nd, 2019 by matikakastelein

Most wonderful camping spot. Views are amazing, facilities are really nice and shower is HOT! Definitely in our top 3 campsites in Africa. Camping 15USD pppn, 40 USD for a twin cabin. Saw Elephants, buffalos and hippos across the river while hearing lions and hyena at night. Knowledgeable and friendly owner.

Much better than the waterfront lodge which we found extremely crowded.

December 29th, 2018 by ch_haas

This is such a beautiful, small and perfectly simple camp with a lot of grass and plenty of covered space, making it ideal for the rainy season. We really enjoyed our stay here.

September 15th, 2018 by PaPe

We wanted to stay but it was saturday and unfortunatly a Group of local visitors had fun with loud music so we visited neighburing Zampezi Palma.

August 20th, 2018 by fahrtwend.ch

very nice campsite, just on the sambesi river, big trees with shade, clean ablution.
15$ p/p firewood included.

July 2nd, 2017 by globenomaden.at

beautiful and absolutely quiet place at the Zambezi river. Well maintenance and clean ablution block with kitchen area, braai station and fire places. We heard hyaenas from the opposite NP at night. USD 15,-- pppn includes fire wood. Self catering required, no restaurant. Chalets also available.