Potato Bush Camp
Small tented camp · Beside Sausage Tree Camp, central park riverfront · Green Safaris
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High-end
Inside the park
Safari company
The smaller, quieter sibling of Sausage Tree, sharing the same guiding team and the same stretch of river for meaningfully less money. Three tents and a family house means you rarely see another guest, and the included private guiding is unusual at this price point inside a national park.
Why you'd pick it
- Three tents only, with private guiding included
- The best value-for-experience bed inside the park
- Transfer flight thrown in on four nights or more
What's here
- Swimming pool
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
- Guided walks
- Birding
- Fishing
Read from Potato Bush Camp'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
From $975 pppn. 2026: $975 low season, $1,430 high. Park and conservation fees extra. Free transfer flight on stays of four nights or more.
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.