On this trip, you are going to experience the best adventure of your life including the Victoria Falls experience is known as Mosi-oa-Tunya, in the Sotho language meaning “The Smoke that Thunders.” This name is stunningly appropriate for the roaring Zambezi River tumbling into a mist-filled chasm, sending clouds of condensation hundreds of meters into the air.
Day 1: Matetsi Private Game Reserve
You will be met by a guide from Africa Tours and Safaris Inc. at the airport who will brief you and transfer you to your Lodge. Here, you are able to watch animals directly from your river-facing suite; hippos quarreling and fighting for rights and leadership, baboons playing and being naughty, zebras grazing, and buffalos wandering as you dip into the private plunge pool on your verandah, talk of the distant roaring sound of the falls. There’s also a fabulous circular bath that looks out over the Zambezi, a lazy space for recovering from the flight. Your stay is flexible, and a variety of activities are included, dependent on your energy levels. Dinner at the Lodge and rest peacefully.
Over Night: Matetsi River Lodge
Day 2: Matetsi Private Game Reserve – Visit to the Victoria Falls
After breakfast, you will Trail down the river, the nearer you get the much louder looms of Victoria Falls. Stop at an island close to the precipice then explore the walking trails around the falls, enjoying wonderful vistas over a mile-wide sheet of water that plummets over 100 meters into the chasm. This is a perfect place for picture taking if you like, you may take a boat upriver, where pods of hippos wade through the shallows and migratory elephants always around and about. Return to the Lodge and for the rest of the time, enjoy springboks and impalas among those that scamper past as you’re lounging on the verandah.
Over Night: Matetsi River Lodge
Day 3: Hwange National Park – Following the Elephants through the Wilderness
After breakfast, you will enjoy a short flight south to Hwange National Park Zimbabwe’s longstanding and largest national park, enjoying Zimbabwe’s unbroken wilderness, low enough to spot herds of elephants traveling in and out of the forest. Then you will land in the Park, Enormous herds of elephants and buffalos roam here, sometimes hundreds of them seen in a single peninsular. Gemsboks graze as packs of rare brown hyenas form. One of Africa’s largest populations of wild dogs can be found close to the camp, thriving on a floodplain in the heart of Hwange. Dinner at the Lodge.
Over Night: Somalisa Camp
Days 4 – 5: Hwange National Park – Decadent Big-Game Safari and the Southern Africa Safari Camp
After a yummy breakfast, you will go for a game drive south of the park and the Kalahari Desert plains attract a rich abundance of antelope: bushbuck, eland, kudu, gemsbok, reedbuck, hartebeest, impala, steenbok, duiker, and more. This wide-ranging menu creates food for the complete cast of predators, the two days are basically and precisely wildlife fun filled days.
Over Night: Somalisa Camp
Day 6: Lake Kariba (Matusadona National Park) – Private Aerial Safari and the Authenticity of Wild Africa
Take a flight north to Matusadona National Park, on landing, you may spot giraffes and buffalos close to the dusty airstrip. Matusadona is a destination of remarkable beauty and dropped by rugged mountains, where every scenery is a prospective photograph. Some aspects of the Lake Kariba experience are redolent of a typical waterfront getaway. Boat cruises take you past a rich collection of birds,
Over Night: Changa Safari Camp
Day 7: Lake Kariba (Matusadona National Park) – Escapism and Evocative Wildlife Encounters
After a sumptuous breakfast you take a walk across the plains, surrounding yourself with zebras and waterbucks, admiring the horns of rare sables and roan antelopes. Cruise on the water, watching how the herons flit in and out of the hippo pods. Drive into the park and stop in a clearing, waiting for elephants and a dense awareness of lions and other predators. This is a park with a full range of activities, and it’s compact enough to include all three modes of exploration in one day.
Over Night: Changa Safari Camp
Day 8: Matobo Hills National Park – Walking Amongst Black and White Rhinos
Enjoy a tranquil sunrise on the lakeside before you fly south to Bulawayo, a short transfer away from the World Heritage Site of Matobo Hills. Remarkably high concentrations of leopards and black eagles occupy the jagged granite scenery, thriving in the broken landscapes. Other mammals are prolific in compact areas of open plains, including both black and white rhino subspecies. Today’s survey is devoted to the endangered giants the Rhinos, the environmentalist leading you on a drive into the rhinos’ realm. Then wait patiently to see the smaller and warier black rhinos, which only emerge when they are self-possessed.
Over Night: Camp Amalinda
Day 9: Matobo Hills National Park – Indulgence and Intrigue within World’s View
“World’s View” just like Cecil Rhodes preferred to call these hills it’s not difficult to see why, especially when you stride to the peak of the granite domes and castle kopjes. Uphill, you discovery San rock art, history etched into caves and overhangs, interpreted by your local guide. Many of the paintings tell of wildlife nearby, and the hills continue to offer some majestic safari encounters. Walks are short and relaxed, exploring a compact area popular with different antelopes. Drives bounce into the hills, in search of the legendary leopard population, black eagles soar, scavengers, return to the lodge and enjoy a swim in the hot weather
Over Night: Camp Amalinda
Day 10: Matobo Hills National Park to Johannesburg – Departure
After breakfast and the short flight, you then transfer to your homebound departure at O. R. Tambo International.