October 2009

How top scare an elephant

Human wildlife and especially human elephant conflicts are an issue for all conservationists whether in Africa or Asia. Chilli has been published by various sources as one way of protecting crop. It it said to be very helpful to scare away elephant who can destroy months of work within a few minutes. Well, our second gardening club planted Chilli and used our old engine oil to make a chilli fence around their garden. They are enjoying good success after implementing this idea. Other gardening clubs have been badly disrupted by elephants, however, Joseph's has remained unscathed.

September 2009

Hippo and Lion fight it out outside maintenance manager’s house.

Joe, our maintenance manager likes his sleep! He is renowned for sleeping through the loudest lion roar, the most deafening hippo guffaw and the ear piercing shrill of a baboon alarm call. However, earlier this month, the animals decided to rebel and if they were awake in the deepest darkest hours, then so should Joe!!

At about 0400 in the morning the lodge had some visitors; a pride of six lions and a lonely male hippo. Although common visitors to the lodge, it has to be said they don’t often visit at the same time. Needless to say the two night time guests met, right outside Joe’s window! Both the lion and the hippo were shocked and a moment of aggression past between them accompanied by roars, bellows and a few angry blows. However, no one was as shocked as poor old Joe. He was rudely awakened by the raucous and had no clue what was going on! There was even a moment where he thought, as the noise was so loud, they must be inside his room! Needless to say, Joe struggled to sleep for the rest of the night and was disturbed by dreams containing hippo and lion encounters of the deafening kind!

Since then, our night watchmen have not seen the same lion or the same hippo in camp! Jessie Begg

August 2009

Fips the Monkey

There are many ways of using a cushion. Most people just sit on them, others cuddle ... read more

July 2009

A surprise visitor spotted in the kitchen.
Last night we were sat with our guests around the evening campfire, exchanging safari stories ... read more

June 2009

A Hippo in the front garden
Read all about the life and work in the bush in our new blog (soon in English as well) http:// luambe.offroad-blogs.net

May 2009

Two joung women from Cologne and their adventure of a lifetime in Zambia.
Read about it all in their blog (if you can read German) www.crossborder.blogspot

November 2008
A lifetime's ambition achieved.
Looking forward to the future.

After visiting Luangwa Wilderness Lodge many times, Bjoern Behlert has finally achieved a long-held ambition..read more

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