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Time + Tide hotels
Zambian walking-safari traditions lead from bush camps to island retreats off Madagascar.
Time + Tide brings the traditions of African walking safaris and intimate wilderness camps together with a remote island retreat in Madagascar. Built by Thierry Dalais and his family around the legacies of Norman Carr and the Liebenberg family, the collection places conservation and the surrounding communities at the heart of the journey.
11 Time + Tide hotels in 2 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by the family of founder Thierry Dalais
- Worldwide: Around ten camps and lodges across Zambia and Madagascar
- On the atlas: 1 Apex Luxury, 3 High Luxury, 6 Core Luxury, 1 Accessible Luxury
History
Norman Carr’s walking-safari tradition gave the South Luangwa camps their relationship to the landscape and to one another. The Liebenberg family added a Lower Zambezi history, while Thierry Dalais later developed Miavana in Madagascar. These inherited guiding and conservation traditions connect the collection’s bush and island settings.
Timeline
- 1950s — Norman Carr pioneers the walking safari in Zambia's South Luangwa Valley, setting up the region's first game-viewing camp in cooperation with the Kunda people's Paramount Chief Nsefu, and laying the conservation philosophy Time + Tide still credits as its founding inspiration.
- 1990s — Chris Liebenberg and his father found Chongwe Safaris on the confluence of the Chongwe and Zambezi rivers in Zambia's Lower Zambezi Valley, out of a personal devotion to the region sparked in part by meeting Norman Carr.
- Early 2010s — Thierry Dalais and his family invest in Chris and Norman's camps, bringing them together under the Time + Tide name; Time + Tide Chinzombo, designed by South African architects Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens, is completed on the banks of the Luangwa River
- 2017 — Miavana by Time + Tide opens on a private archipelago off northern Madagascar, developed by the Peyre and wider Dalais family to protect and promote the region as a sustainable ecotourism destination.
The houses to know
- Miavana by Time + Tide, Ampisikinana, Madagascar — The brand's ultra-luxury flagship, on a private archipelago protected by the Peyre and Dalais families.
- Time + Tide Chinzombo, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia — Zambia's premier ultra-luxury camp, designed by Silvio Rech and Lesley Carstens on the Luangwa River.
- Time + Tide King Lewanika, Liuwa Plain, Zambia — The hotel is in Liuwa Plain, Zambia.
- Time + Tide Tsara Komba, Nosy Komba, Madagascar — An eight-room eco-lodge set amid tropical forest above the sea on volcanic Nosy Komba, off Madagascar's northwest coast near Nosy Be.
- Time + Tide Chongwe Camp, Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia — Safari tents sit beneath winterthorn trees where the Chongwe and Zambezi rivers meet.
- Time + Tide Chongwe House, Lower Zambezi National Park, Zambia — Descended from the Liebenberg family's original Chongwe Safaris.
- Time + Tide Kakuli, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia — One of four walking-safari camps following Norman Carr's original South Luangwa footpaths.
- Time + Tide Luwi, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia — Luwi belongs to the chain of bush camps connected by Norman Carr’s walking-safari tradition.
- Time + Tide Mchenja, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia — An ebony grove gives Mchenja its name and intimate setting beside the Luangwa River.
- Time + Tide Nsolo, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia — Norman Carr chose the camp’s Luangwa setting in 1987, adding another chapter to the walking-safari route.
Newest openings
- None of the Time + Tide hotels selected by the Atlas has a recorded opening year of 2023 or later.
Opening next
- No confirmed announcements were identified in the sources reviewed through 2026-08-28.
Every Time + Tide hotel on the atlas
Zambia
- Time + Tide Chinzombo — South Luangwa National Park · High Luxury
- Time + Tide King Lewanika — Liuwa Plain · High Luxury
- Time + Tide Chongwe Camp — Lower Zambezi National Park · Core Luxury
- Time + Tide Chongwe House — Lower Zambezi National Park · Core Luxury
- Time + Tide Kakuli — South Luangwa National Park · Core Luxury
- Time + Tide Luwi — South Luangwa National Park · Core Luxury
- Time + Tide Mchenja — South Luangwa National Park · Core Luxury
- Time + Tide Nsolo — South Luangwa National Park · Core Luxury
- Time + Tide Albida Suite — Lower Zambezi National Park · Accessible Luxury
Madagascar
- Miavana by Time + Tide — Ampisikinana · Apex Luxury
- Time + Tide Tsara Komba — Nosy Komba · High Luxury
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