{"id":33220,"date":"2018-01-11T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/shumba-camp\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T08:42:49","slug":"shumba-camp","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/africa\/zambia\/shumba-camp","title":{"rendered":"Shumba Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Elegant tented camp in the heart of Busanga Plains<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Shumba Camp<\/strong> is located in the heart of the breathtaking <strong>Busanga Plains,<\/strong> <strong>Kafue National Park.<\/strong> The name Shumba means &#8216;lion&#8217;; the camp is named after the many lion families that reside here. It is shaded by many fig trees and offers stunning views over the beautiful open plains.<\/p>\n<p>The six luxurious spacious tents are on wooden platforms and feature en-suite bathrooms with indoor and outdoor showers.<\/p>\n<h4>Tips &amp; tops from Shumba Camp:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Busanga Plains is rich in antelopes, \u00a0 lions, wild dogs, cheetahs, red lechwe, puku, roan and oribi; unforgettable guided game drives (in open vehicles) guaranteed!<\/li>\n<li>Night-time game drives; come face to face with genet, civet, owls and leopards<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy a day-long safari accompanied by an expert guide with a \u00a0 wonderfully relaxing picnic lunch<\/li>\n<li>Take a hot air balloon tour of the beautiful scenery, to finish with a champagne breakfast (N.B. for guests who stay three nights or longer in the period from August to October this is free of charge)<\/li>\n<li>In this area 491 bird species are counted including the Chaplin&#8217;s barbet, rollers, bee-eaters, kingfishers, herons and large groups of storks; three-hour bird safaris are organised especially for bird lovers<\/li>\n<li>Early in the season, the area is flooded. Take a boat trip across the canals of Busanga Plains<\/li>\n<li>Experience Zambian culture during your dinner in the cosy boma or on deck<\/li>\n<li>Shumba Camp uses solar energy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luxury tented camp, sheltered among fig trees overlooking the open plains of Busanga Plains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":22745,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[216],"highlight_category":[603],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-33220","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-zambia","highlight_category-accommodatie-en","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234213,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33220\/revisions\/234213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=33220"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=33220"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=33220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}