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Set in an area of pristine wilderness, KaingU Safari Lodge offers it all. You’ll arrive in a small paradise.
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Set in an area of pristine wilderness, KaingU Safari Lodge offers a magnificent safari experience in the heart of the African bush. Discovering the lodge with its comfortable accommodation blending into nature is something unexpected in this remote area.The lodge was built with a lot of patience, good taste and an extraordinary sense for detail.Our personal attention to each and every guest makes

you feel at home instantly. KaingU offers a unique stay for travelers wishing to get closer to the unspoiled wilderness of the ‘real’ Africa, experience the warm and welcoming people of Zambia and enjoy wildlife and scenery undisturbed. This is a place to unwind, enjoy our chefs’ cuisine and be spoiled with an abundance of activities or, if you prefer, just relax and feel the heartbeat of Africa. Our Lodge is situated in the Namwala Game Management Area (GMA) on a spectacular and remote stretch of the Kafue River, approximately 400 kilometres north of the majestic Victoria Falls.The Kafue National Park, just opposite the lodge and only a 10 minute boat trip away, offers abundant game viewing. The Kafue River, with all its myriad of channels, rapids and islands lends itself to a range of exciting river based activities which include boat cruises, fishing, birding, canoeing and river trails.From the top of one of the large granite boulders in the Namwala GMA you will get a 360° view over nothing but nature! An historical iron smelter has been re-constructed in this area and a visit to the KaingU Trust School can be organised. Situated on a plateau 1030 meters above sea level, KaingU enjoys a year round moderate climate (coldest in July, hottest in October).

03/11/2024

Sky Safari. It has been a while. The rains are moving in now and are very welcome. Some sky Safari tips. The large (bottom) and small (upper) Magellanic clouds are actually companion galaxies orbiting our own on something insane like a 4 billion years orbit. We will round the crazy figures up and call them both about 200,000 light years away. Neighbors in space terms as far as other galaxies go. And the crazy thing is that under dark skies on safari here in Zambia they can be seen with the naked eye. As always, let your eyes adjust and after dinner look South. Use averted vision (so look away a little bit) and you will see two faint but obvious smudges.

If you want to photograph them then the widest and fastest lens is what to use. F2.8 will work. Set your focus to manual and try and get to infinity (point at a super bright object - Venus is low in the west - and rotate your focus ring until it is as small as you can get it. Don't touch the focus and point south again. The camera must be on a tripod. Go to iso 1600 or even higher and try for say 20s exposures. It's not that hard. Congratulations, you have just photographed another galaxy. Or two. And if you pick up a faint smudge or two remember that until Edwin Hubble in 1926 we didn't even know there were other galaxies out there.

Image: Sigma 28mm, f1.4 lens. 30s exposure at iso 1600 with a normal Canon camera.

31/10/2024

Guide Israel grabbed this fantastic shot this morning - a beautiful male leopard.

27/10/2024

Comets are a bit like elephants. They both have tails. But yes, they can both be potentially dangerous. But both are incredibly beautiful and awe inspiring. Just don't get too close.... A good rule when it comes to 5 ton behemoths as well as massive rocks traveling rather quickly. Last comet picture for this year, I promise.

27/10/2024

Sadly the occupants were on an island brunch. And we had no handy influencers ready and willing to be in white dresses in the deck chairs.

27/10/2024

Big Bob's Sunday Stroll Part 2.

27/10/2024

"Stand your ground". Big Bob at Chalet 4 is so predictable. He will come out past the fence and make a point of looming up by the tea station and giving everyone a reminder that he weighs 60x more than us. You will have to retreat a little bit. It is sensible. No one wants to be tossed like a rag doll while eating chocolate cake. I have lost count of the times he has done this, and it never ever gets old. The illusion of a few bush poles and some grass works both ways. It gives us a false sense of security while also seemingly giving him the feeling that he can be much closer than we would ever be otherwise without fear or threat. Mutual respect. And it is patently obvious that he gets as much fun from it as we do.

24/10/2024

Zambia at 60 years old.

To celebrate 60 years of our wonderful Nation being free and independent we decided to actually look at glimpses of the land which tell a little bit of the story of this wonderful diverse and proud country that 21 million of us call home.

These glimpses are from 786km high, ESA's Sentinel 2 satellite which provides imagery for agriculture monitoring, emergency management, land cover classification and water management.

1st slide. The Kafue flats are a hugely important wetland area created and seasonally inundated by the Kafue river which in turn has generated rich soils and allows intensive agriculture. The round green areas are center pivot irrigation installations. The Kafue is also the source of water for Lusaka,. The slide shows how Zambia has huge water resources allowing economic benefits as well as environmental benefits and services.

2nd slide. The capital city of Zambia. Lusaka. The metro area is home to well over 3 million people. The city is one of contrasts and that can be seen even from this image with the rural outskirts and leafy residential areas in sharp contrast to the incredibly densely populated Kombonis or "compounds" where approximately 80% of Lusaka's residents live in largely poor quality overcrowded housing with limited access to water, often poor sanitation and poor roads and other services. While we celebrate our independence day it is also worth reflecting on the fact that the UNDP state that 21% of Zambians live in "severe multidimensional poverty".

3rd slide. A very random, rugged and incredibly sparsely populated part of Zambia. This slide shows how much of the Nation is still incredibly untouched and wild. Something to be celebrated and safeguarded. An asset that not every country can boast of.

All images copyright the European Space Agency.

23/10/2024

More comet stuff. From top left... A bit of milky way. Venus , the comet itself. And a wildfire.

20/10/2024

Comet C/2023 over the Kafue this evening. 91 million kilometers away. Heading away from us now and traveling at 180,000 miles per hour. The window to see it (it is faint but visible with binoculars) is getting less and less, and the window is made smaller by the fact it is low on the horizon to the West so quite quickly sets after darkness. I have been trying several times but life, work and weather got in the way. Tonight the clouds parted and I had a 20min gap to get it. It is well past its peak brightness by now but it still was extremely satisfying. 85mm lens and DSLR from Mpamba rock. As a long period comet, it won't be back for something like 80,000 years. 5 mins later the nucleus disappeared into the small cloud in the frame. At 20-40km in size it is a comfort that it is over half the distance that the Sun is. 20km is big enough to make humankind go the way of the dinosaurs. And we are going that way all by ourselves it would seem, even without the help of big bits of rubble left over from the formation of the solar system!

20/10/2024

Concrete culvert cat.

09/10/2024

Estelle.

09/10/2024

Such a pleasure to work with Charles and Estelle and Mr Museka on something utterly different. They are rocks of our local community and did an incredible job in front of various cameras. Twalumba.

09/10/2024

Style (Charles' version).

08/10/2024

Lake Itezhi Tezhi this evening. Heading home after an intense 2 weeks making film stuff happen.

27/09/2024

Julia by . ❤️

27/09/2024

and a portrait of Francisca.

27/09/2024

taking a portrait of Marian on large format film. Too good to not share!

24/09/2024

The last few days have seen some of the most intense lion sightings that we can remember. Guests that left today saw every permutation that one can imagine. From boats to vehicles to right behind the tent. The dry conditions bring prey species right to the river, and where prey comes.....

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Clouds (a few satellites and a plane too) scudding across the small Magellanic cloud which is a small galaxy visible only in the southern hemisphere. To the left is Achernar, the 9 brightest star in the sky. Immediately above it and slightly to the right is 47 Tuc, a globular star cluster containing millions of stars. Although they look close, the small Magellanic cloud is 15x further away than the star cluster.