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How to Get to Us

Mutinondo is one of the few places in the Zambian bush that does not require you to have a four wheel drive vehicle....or a vehicle at all and this means you do not have to charter a plane either!

You can get to us:
· By road (By self drive)
· By rail or bus and then transfer, hike or bike
· By air

BY ROAD
You don't need a four-wheel drive to visit Mutinondo Wilderness! The 25 km driveway to Mutinondo was built by us and is well-maintained and very 2 x 2 saloon car friendly. The Great North Road linking Zambia with Tanzania has recently been resurfaced from Serenje to the border with Tanzania and rebuilt between Kapiri Mposhi and Serenje - thank you very much to the Danish Government for the most wonderful road!

DIRECTIONS
North Bound: Total distance is approximately 600 km from Lusaka or the Copperbelt. Turn up the Great North Road just north of Kapiri Mposhi, drive 364 km (past Mkushi and Serenje) until 164km after Serenje you see our small wooden sign on the right (12km after Salamo Railway Station and 200m before of Kalonje Railway Station), turn right/east down our 25 km driveway.
South Bound: Drive 72km from Mpika towards Serenje until you see our signpost (200m after Kalonje Railway Station), turn left/east down our 25 km access road.

BY RAIL
Tazara Railways travels between Kapiri Mposhi (200km north of Lusaka) to Dar es Salaam (main city in Tanzania on the East Coast/Indian Ocean). The trains are old and rundown with side unreliable lights and water supplies but still offers 40 hours of a true African experience of travelling through beautiful areas. You can catch the Ordinary train to Kalonje Station and hike or bike 25km to camp or get the Express train to Mpika and get a taxi from there (100km). Transfers can be arranged from Kalonje railway station. There are two services a week. One Express and one Ordinary.

1. North and South Bound Express
2. North and South Bound Ordinary

Check with the Tazara Railway Services for time tables: www.tazara.co.tz
emails: acistz@afsat.com (Dar es Salaam)
tazara@zamnet.zm (Mpika)
tazarandl@zamnet.zm (Ndola)
kaekacom@hotmail.com (MD)
Phone: + 255 22 2860340/4 (Public Relation's Manager -Dar es Salaam)
Fax: + 255 22 2865334/8 (Public Relation's Manager -Dar es Salaam)
Telefax:
+ 260 4 370228 (Mpika)
+ 260 2 621933 (Ndola)
+ 260 1 222280 (Lusaka)

BY AIR
Airlines flying or connecting to Airports in Zambia (Zambian airports in bold)
British Airways - from London Heathrow to Lusaka
BA Comair - from Johannesburg Airport (South Africa) to Lusaka
South African Airways - Johannesburg Airport to Lusaka and Ndola
Zambian Airways- Harare (Zimbabwe) to Lusaka
Ethiopian Airways- Addis Ababa to Lusaka
Emirates Air- Dubai (UAE) to Johannesburg
Zimbabwean Airways- Harare (Zimbabwe) to Lusaka
Kenyan Airways- Nairobi - Connects with KLM from/to Amsterdam
LAM- Maputo (Mozambique)- via Harare or Johannesburg
Air Malawi - Lilongwe & Blantyre (Malawi) to Lusaka
Nationwide - into Livingstone from Johannesburg

From Lusaka Internation Airport you can either:

a) Get a scheduled flight to Mfuwe and then get a chartered flight to Murtinondo airstrip
b) Hire a vehicle to Mutinondo
c) Get public transport to the Kalonje Railway Station and arrange for a transfer to Mutinondo

Aircharter companies email addresses:
· Avocet avocet@zamnet.zm
· Skytrails Ltd 2KAS@bushmail.net
· Staravia staravia@zamnet.zm

We have permission for an airstrip which should be in operation mid-2005. Please check with us before flying in. Coordinates: S 12.27.00  E 31.17.00


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