 Kaweche Kaunda, son of the first Zambian president, in the history-making rest shelter at Mushroom House (above); President Kaunda's original Mushroom House (right); an elephant strolls past the chalets of the new Mushroom Lodge (below) |
 African history was made at “Mushroom House” in Zambia’s South Luangwa National Park. The holiday getaway of Zambia’s first President Kenneth Kaunda and his cabinet ministers, this was also the site of the secret meeting in 1976 between the ANC’s Oliver Tambo and South Africa’s Oppenheimer team of white industrialists – a meeting that drove the very first wedge through the wall of apartheid.
In early 2007, Mushroom House (with additional chalets and facilities) opened as the luxury Mushroom Safari Lodge. Kaunda’s son Kaweche Kaunda revisits Mushroom Lodge, and reminisces about the turbulent days of his childhood in this nature-blessed corner of Zambia. 
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