14-DAY HARARE , MANA POOLS, GREAT ZIMBABWE, MATOPO, HWANGE NP AND VICTORIA FALLS

Arrival in Harare

On arrival at Harare International Airport, you will be met and transferred to the Meikles Hotel. Depending on arrival time you may do a city tour, visit the art galleries or the wildlife orphanages (all optional)

Overnight at the Meikles Hotel (5*) in Harare with dinner and breakfast.

Transfer to Mana Pools National Park

You will depart early for Mana Pools National Park with a stop-over at the Chinhoyi Caves for site seeing. You will be at the Parks entrance at around 13h00 and at the camp at around 15H00. You may do one wildlife activity.

Overnight at Camp Mana (Full board with activities)

Full Day Game Viewing activities in Mana Pool National Park.

These will include guided walks in the park, Game drives, and canoeing on the Zambezi river

Overnight at Camp Mana (full board with activities)

Game viewing Activities In Mana Pools National Park

Full day activities

Overnight at Camp Mana (Full board including activities)

Depart for Harare

We will depart early and stop over in Harare for the night.

Overnight at the Meikles (or similar) BB

Transfer to Great Zimbabwe

After breakfast, you depart for the great Zimbabwe ruins, and you will be in this medieval city at about 12:00 in time for lunch and an afternoon guided tour of the monuments.

Great Zimbabwe is a ruined city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near the town of Masvingo. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the country's Late Iron Age and is believed to have served as a royal palace for the local monarch. Construction on the monument began in the 11th century and continued until the 15th century. The stone city spans an area of 722 hectares which, at its peak, could have housed up to 18,000 people.

Great Zimbabwe has since been adopted as a national monument by the Zimbabwean govt, and the modern-day state is named for it.

Dinner and Overnight at the Lodges at The Ancient City (or similar)

Matopo Hills National Park

You will depart early for the Matobo Hills National park near Bulawayo some 250 km due west of great Zimbabwe. You will do an afternoon game drive – your introductory drive to your African wildlife safari
Matobo National Park has a wide diversity of fauna: 175 bird, 88 mammal, 39 snake and 16 fish species Game include white rhinos, sable antelopes, impala and leopards. The game park has been restocked with white and black rhinos. It has been designated as an Intensive Protection Zone for the two species, as well as hyenas, hippopotamus, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest and ostriches.

This is one park where you will have a realistic chance of encountering the rhinos in their natural habitat and shy and elusive African leopards

Overnight at Amalinda Lodge (or similar) DBB

Matopo Hills National Park

Matopo National Park is home to a wide range of game, including Africa`s largest concentration of leopard, which is a major attraction in the landscape in addition to the intensely protected  highest concentration of the black and white rhino.

Elsewhere in the park, some more obvious game includes bushbuck, impala Kudu, giraffe, lion baboon monkeys and more. Daisies or rock hyrax are very common and a density of leopard that is also very high.

On this day we will visit the worldview point – the highest point of Matopo hills and the rock art painting in the morning and, we will do another game viewing safari in the afternoon.

Overnight at Matopo Hills lodge (or similar) DBB

Safari in the Hwange National Park

Full day of game viewing per your arrangements with your guide

The elephants of Hwange are world famous and the Park's elephant population is one of the largest in the world. The park is home to over 65000 elephants who in the dry season dominate all the water points in the afternoons. Other animals that can be seen in the park are lion, leopard, cheetah, buffalo, impala, kudu, sable, eland, waterbuck, zebra, giraffe, baboon, warthog and a lot more.

Overnight at the Camp Hwange (Full board with Game Viewing Activities).

Safari in the Hwange National Park

Full day Game Viewing activities per your arrangements with the camp guide

Hwange provides a safari experience to rival the great parks of East Africa - the Serengeti and Masai Mara - but without the crowds. You will have another fun filled day in the park - now looking for your favourite animal or bird and even ignoring the other now common species. On a good day you may even return to the lodge earlier as you will have seen all there is to be seen.

Overnight at the Camp Hwange (Full board with Game Viewing Activities).

Transfer To Victoria Falls, Guided Tour Of The Victoria Falls & Sunset Cruise

After Breakfast transfer you will be transferred to Victoria Falls in air-conditioned vans – a two hours trip. After check-in you will do a guided tour of the Victoria Falls. The walk on this 2KM stretch lasts for about two hours. You will also be shown the big baobabs of the Victoria Falls National Park and you will also pass-by the curio market for gifts shopping. Raincoats Mineral water and return transfers are included.

At 16H00 you will be transferred to the jetty for the relaxing Zambezi River sun set cruise. Relax with a sun-downer and snacks as you gaze out onto the banks of the river. Have your camera ready to capture one of the amazing sunsets in Africa. This is a two-hour boat trip with all drinks, snacks and return transfers. Expect to be back at the Hotel at about 19H00

Own dinner arrangements and overnight at the Elephant Hills Resort B/B

Chobe National Park Day Trip

You will be picked up for the transfer to Chobe National Park at 07h30 and expect to be back in Victoria Falls at around 18h00. The tour includes a three-hour boat cruise (game viewing boat safari ) on the Chobe river, lunch at the Chobe Safari Lodge, an afternoon game drive in the Chobe National Park and refreshments throughout the trip

Dinner will be at the Boma restaurant (www.theboma.co.zw ) Overnight at the Elephant Hills resort BB

Last Day of the Tour

This is the last day of the tour, you may get a chance to do one more optional tour and these may include walk with the lions, morning short game drive, early morning canoeing on the Zambezi river etc.

Departure times from the hotel will depend on the flight times. We recommend that you be at the airport at least two hours before the flight times.