ROBIN POPE SAFARIS UNVEILS DETAILS OF NEW CAMP IN MALAWI

LILONGWE, Malawi (02/2014) Robin Pope Safaris (RPS), known as one of the finest safari operators in both Zambia and Malawi, announces MIYALA CAMP, a new safari camp opening in Liwonde National Park, Malawi in July, 2014.  The camp is being designed by acclaimed architect Neil Rocher, whose work, including Robin Pope Safaris’ Luangwa Safari House, has been featured in Architectural Digest.  Rates start at $385 per person per night from July – October 2014 and $355 per person per night for November and December 2014.

Miyala Camp will comprise four guest tents (including one family tent) with a maximum occupancy of 10. Each safari tent is designed in modern, open-plan style – with bedroom, lounge, and bathroom a seamless flow. Miyala means “rocks/stones” in the local Chichewa language, and the crisp, gray interiors echo the huge rocks outside the tent walls. Each tent has its own private viewing deck and boasts Evening Breeze air conditioning (a state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly air cooling system.)

In announcing the new camp, managing director Ton de Rooy said, “Our aim was to have Miyala Camp blend into the beautiful landscape surrounding it. To that end, each tent features natural gray and blue hues, wooden floors and decks, and simplistic canvas roofs that seem to float in space and time. One is swept away on a true African Safari while enjoying overtones of luxury.”

Miyala Camp is located within Malawi’s beautiful Liwonde National Park, which lies 71 miles from the city of Blantyre in southeastern Malawi. Miyala is at the southern end of Liwonde National Park overlooking the Chikalogwe Plain of the Shire River at the base of Chiunguni Hill. Despite Liwonde’s relatively small size at 212 square miles, it is one of Malawi’s most famous parks for its abundance of wildlife, birds and varied landscapes.

Liwonde boasts excellent game including the largest numbers of elephant in the country and more than 2000 hippos. The rhino sanctuary set up in 1992 has successfully reintroduced black rhino to the park. Liwonde is also home to buffalo, sable, impala, waterbuck, bushbuck, nyala, kudu, warthog, yellow baboon, vervet monkey, and leopard, with the occasional lion crossing over from Mozambique. It’s a favorite, too, of twitchers, both for its high volume of birds and variety of species such as the rare Livingstone’s Flycatcher, Pel’s Fishing-Owl, Lillian’s Lovebird and many more.

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