{"id":2781,"date":"2022-07-29T12:48:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:20:00","slug":"luangwa-np-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beady.com\/blog\/luangwa-np-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Luangwa NP : part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After camping by the northern part on the Etuba community campsite we did the 200k off road down to the south part of the park, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the security gates are great in Africa, real rustic touch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Huge boabab make the range rover look small<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n

this is the more touristy part and very pretty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

there were many overlanders on the camp and we had to do the usual tour of dogger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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another amazing sunset, watching over hippos shitting on each other<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Uk family where also here and we had followed them down the west side of the river , at every security gate you have to fill in you name, and I noticed we were a couple of hours behind the family of simmonites<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the camp we found out they are indeed related to the racing simmonites!! small world, but they don’t race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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this campsite has also wildlife going through it, in fact the monkeys are thieving little bastard, on the first night we had a family of elephants walk through and then just as a was locking up at night i cam face to face with a Leopard, not 3 feet away, luckily I had my torch and it just slowly walked of.. maybe the monkeys arent so bad after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the next day we got up at 5am to be at the park entrance for 6am so we could get the animal feeding and being fed up on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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there is a huge croc just in from the waters edge, the mother took the little elephant away for safety<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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these elephants wondered into a luxury 5 star lodge and started demolishing the garden while the staff looked on helplessly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

the elephants were also blocking a villa with guests in who should have left for the airport , but the elephants weren’t bothered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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different style of tourist buses in Zambia, all have the screens cut off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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when they get close it get a little worrying<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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we sat and watched the sun go down with some South Africans talking about Dakar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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they even have different zebras here…. they have stripy legs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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