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Puku Ridge Our exclusive camp offers 8 luxury tented retreats on an elevated ridge overlooking plain and woodlands teeming with wildlife.
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This extraordinary lodge retreat is close to the vibrant Luangwa River, providing unrivalled wildlife experiences.

Puku Ridge sits directly over an active wildlife lagoon, so the water below your deck rarely stays still for long. Wash ...
08/10/2026

Puku Ridge sits directly over an active wildlife lagoon, so the water below your deck rarely stays still for long. Wash off the dust from the morning's walk while, somewhere on the floodplain, something considerably larger is doing the same.

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A newborn impala's first instinct isn't to run. It's to freeze, and watch. At Puku Ridge, reading the wild starts with t...
04/10/2026

A newborn impala's first instinct isn't to run. It's to freeze, and watch. At Puku Ridge, reading the wild starts with the small details, the flick of an ear and the stillness before a decision. A newborn impala sees a world built entirely on alertness.

World Animal Day 2026 ‘See the world through their eyes.’

03/10/2026

One day at Puku Ridge covers more ground than most people cover in a week.

The eye-to-eye hide is not just for daytime. After a session photographing at ground level with the wildlife at the lago...
28/09/2026

The eye-to-eye hide is not just for daytime. After a session photographing at ground level with the wildlife at the lagoon, evenings ease into safari sundowners on the ridge, the kind of quiet that only comes after a day spent this close to the ground.

The mtondo's fruit ripens quietly, but nothing escapes the elephants' notice. They return to the same trees year after y...
25/09/2026

The mtondo's fruit ripens quietly, but nothing escapes the elephants' notice. They return to the same trees year after year, timing their visits to the exact week the mangoes begin to fall, shaking branches loose and feasting beneath the canopy for days.

23/09/2026

The Puku floodplain does its best work at first light, and Puku Ridge's main deck puts you right in front of it.

Guests gather under the tamarind trees while the sky shifts through its dawn colours, one more South Luangwa morning starting the way they always do here, with coffee, quiet conversation, and a guide's briefing before the open 4x4s pull away.

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There's something we love about the ridge at Puku Ridge - eight Safari Retreats, each tucked into its own private deck a...
21/09/2026

There's something we love about the ridge at Puku Ridge - eight Safari Retreats, each tucked into its own private deck and plunge pool. It's the kind of space that doesn't ask anything of you.

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Each year, the riverbanks at Puku Ridge come alive in a way few sightings can match. Carmine bee-eaters arrive by the hu...
18/09/2026

Each year, the riverbanks at Puku Ridge come alive in a way few sightings can match. Carmine bee-eaters arrive by the hundreds to nest, turning stretches of the South Luangwa riverbank into a wall of colour and sound.

It's one of the most striking spectacles of the season, over almost as fast as it begins.

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Behind some of the best meals at Puku Ridge is a group of women in Mfuwe village growing the produce that reaches our ta...
14/09/2026

Behind some of the best meals at Puku Ridge is a group of women in Mfuwe village growing the produce that reaches our table.

Through Sowing the Seeds of Success, our partnership with Eden Organics, good food becomes a livelihoods story too.

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South Luangwa National Park
Livingstone
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