Tusk & Mane Chula Island Camp
Island fly-camp · Chula Island, mid-park · Tusk & Mane
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High-end
Inside the park
Owner/family-run
The second link in Tusk & Mane's canoe circuit: you paddle in, sleep on an island, and paddle on. Camps like this are the reason the Lower Zambezi is different from a drive-based park, and there is nothing comparable across the river.
Why you'd pick it
- Sleeping on an island in the Zambezi
- Built for multi-day canoe trails
- Five tents and nothing else on the island
What's here
- Campsite
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
- Boat trips
- Night drives
- Birding
- Fishing
Read from Tusk & Mane Chula Island 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
Rates not published. No verifiable 2026 rate card exists for this camp. Enquire directly, usually as part of a canoe circuit with Kutali.
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.