Muchichili Safari House
Exclusive-use self-catering house · Chiawa GMA riverbank · Duncan and May Woods with David and Deborah Bland
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Budget
Outside the gate
Owner/family-run
Take the house, bring your own food and drink, and split the cost. For a family or a group of friends this is the cheapest way to sleep on this river, and there is camping on the same stretch of bank if some of your party would rather be under canvas.
Why you'd pick it
- A whole bush house to your group at self-catering prices
- Riverside camping on the same property
- Rare in a valley dominated by inclusive camps
What's here
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Fishing
Read from Muchichili Safari House's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Lower Zambezi National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entry$25 if you are with a licensed operator instead of self-driving.
- $30per person, per day
- VehicleUnder 3 tonnes, foreign registered.
- $15per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $225 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
Camps inside the park bundle a bed-night levy and community fee on top, which together run $85 to $120 per person per night. That is the number that lands on your invoice, not the gate fee.
The full fee schedule for Lower Zambezi National ParkRates
About K7,300 to K9,150 per day for the house. That was a 2021 self-catering rate for ten people. It is almost certainly out of date; ask the owners for a current figure.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Indicative 2026 rates from operators' own rate cards, gathered July 2026. Always confirm with the lodge. Two things shift the real comparison here. First, camps inside the park add $85 to $120 per person per night in bundled park and conservation fees, and most quote that separately. Second, camps in the Chiawa game management area carry no national park entry fee at all unless you cross into the park, which is why a GMA bed can work out far cheaper than the headline rate suggests.