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Uniquely designed private house
for up to eight guests
- Four large ensuite bedrooms, massive dining/sitting area
- Swimming pool and platform
- All activities are exclusive to the house guests
- Open April to November
- Private vehicles, guides and armed scout for walking safari. Canoes and boat.
- The private chef and house manager will discuss menu planning for the stay
- Activities and meals will be designed to suit the individual group requirement
- Fly Fishing on the Chongwe River.
- Equally suitable for families and groups (min age 7)
- Wide range of hosted activities
for children, independent
of parents, (with child minder available)
The entire house is built of ferro walls
and wild wood. So the walls follow the
natural lines of the branches used. In
fact there is not a single straight line
to be seen! It is flowing and natural in
every way.The location of the house is at the
end of a massive winterthorn grove, on
the banks of the peaceful Chongwe River,
a tributary of the Zambezi. The view of
the nearby mountainous escarpment is
spectacular. On entering the house,
the main room has low bridges over
flowing water. From this room you look
out over the deck and pool to the river
and mountains beyond. All the furniture
in the sitting room has been carved from
a single huge fallen winterthorn tree,
as if it has fallen across the room.
Beautifully soft coloured pebbles from
the Chongwe River have been embedded in
the ceilings
The ground floor bedrooms are each
entered through a tunnel which gives the
feeling of walking through a cave. The
curved
entrance gives privacy without
the need for doors. The downstairs
bathrooms have water pouring out of the
stone ceiling instead of the normal
shower rose, whilst the upstairs showers
are waterfalls. “Taps” are made from
bone and wood and the exquisitely carved
basins have been carved out of wood and
white marble by the famous Zambian
artist, Eddie Mumba. The upstairs
bedrooms have unusual baths, from which
you have a view across the bush.
The Chongwe area is famous for huge male elephants feeding through the winterthorn grove in which the house is situated and this amazing game experience is enhanced by the fact the Chongwe River itself it the main water source for most of the game in the area. From the bedrooms, the sitting room and the deck you will have game in view, feeding and watering.
