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Chinguni Campsite

Self-catering campsite, bring your own equipment · Chinguni Hill, southern sector · Liwonde National Park (African Parks / DNPW)

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Budget Inside the park Park-run (African Parks)

Twelve dollars buys you a pitch inside a fully restored national park. Add the $30 park fee and an international visitor sleeps in Liwonde for about $42 a night, which very few parks of this quality anywhere in Africa can match. Bring your own gear or hire a tent for $25.

Why you'd pick it

  • The cheapest legal way to sleep inside Liwonde
  • About $42 a night including the international park fee
  • Run by the park itself

What's here

  • En-suite bathrooms
  • Self-catering

Arranged from the lodge:

  • Game drives
  • Boat trips
  • Guided walks
  • Fishing

Read from Chinguni Campsite'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. Liwonde National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside, and almost no booking site shows you that.

Park entryPriced per night here, which most parks do not do.
$30per person, per night
Vehicle
$5per vehicle, per day

Two adults sharing one vehicle staying three nights pay $195 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.

The full fee schedule for Liwonde National Park

Rates

$12 per person. Child 7 to 12: $6. Two-person tent hire $25 per night. Self-catering; bring everything else.

What the rate covers is not confirmed. We have not been able to check whether meals, drinks and activities are included here, so treat this figure as the bed alone until it is.

Indicative rates gathered July 2026 from operators' own sites, the official African Parks rate sheet and, for Mvuu, third-party rate cards, since the operator publishes none. Always confirm with the lodge. Park fees of $30 per international adult are generally extra, and note that the park prices fees per person per night.

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