Day 1: Mana Pools National Park

Transfer to Mana Pools National Park

You will depart (from the Meikles Hotel) 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. The sequence of activities will be arranged on arrival at the camp with the help of your assigned Camp/Safari guide

Overnight at Camp Mana (Full board with activities)

Expert tips

The Chinhoyi Caves are a group of limestone and dolomite caves in north central Zimbabwe. Designated a National Park in 1955, and managed by the Zimbabwe Parks & Wildlife Management Authority.

Entry costs $3 for locals, $8 for SADC citizens and $10 for other visitors

If you wish to have a picnic at a designated picnic site, this costs $5 per site for locals and $10 for other visitors.

As there are steep steps and sandy paths, good walking shoes are advised. You can spend as long or short as you like at Chinhoyi Caves: We usually spend just 30 minutes here as a pleasant sightseeing/toilet stopover between Harare and Mana Pools.

The main attraction of the area is Sleeping Pool, which is open to the sunlight and is 46 metres below ground level. Sleeping Pool is situated in The Wonder Hole, which was once a large cavern but is now in the open-air due to a collapsed ceiling. To reach Sleeping Pool from the main entrance, go down the paved steps which are steep but do-able for most fitness levels.

Activities and Services

Included

Transfers to Mana pools

Refreshments - bottled water and soft drinks 

Accommodation on full board including activities at Camp Mana

Excluded

Items of personal nature

Tips and gratuity

Day 2: Mana Pools National Park

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)

Expert tips

Why Your Visit Will Be Special?: 

  • UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site.
  • One of the world's wildest and best preserved natural ecological areas. 
  • Rated consistently amongst the best Parks in Africa by international travel magazines.
  • Excellent canoeing and river fishing.
  • Remote wilderness areas without mass tourism.
  • The remnant pools of the mighty Zambezi River attract many bird and mammal species.
  • Unique guided and self-guided walks in the Park amongst the wild animals.
  • The country’s biggest concentration of hippopotamuses and Nile crocodiles.

Animal Species

Elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard, cheetah, wild dog, spotted hyena, hippo, Nile crocodile, kudu, bushbuck, nyala, sable antelope, 350 bird species including Nyasa lovebird, yellow-spotted nicator, rock pratincole, banded snake-eagle and Livingstone's flycatcher.

Activities and Services

Included

Accommodation on full board including activities

Excluded

Items of personal nature 

Tips and gratuity

Day 3: Mana Pools National Park

Game viewing Activities In Mana Pools National Park

Full day activities

Overnight at Camp Mana (Full board inclusing activities)

Camp Mana Camp Mana Camp Mana

Activities and Services

Included

Accommodation on full board including activities

  

Excluded

Items of personal nature

 Tips and gratuity

Day 4: Harare

Depart for Harare

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

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

Expert tips

Zimbabwe’s capital city of Harare is not as touristy as other destinations, but it still has many fun activities, cultural sights and beautiful natural spots. If you’ve only seen Harare’s business district in the city centre, you’ve missed out – there’s so much more to see than traffic-filled, messy streets. Unlike in many other capital cities, the best places to visit in Harare are on the outskirts of town, which means that you can’t easily walk around them.

Harare coffee shops, cafés and restaurants should feature more on the tourism radar. They’re independent, open-air jewels in the city’s landscape, very different to their overseas counterparts, which can feel generic, dark and overcrowded.

Included

Transfer to the Meikles Hotel Harare BB

Accommodation on BB

Excluded

Items of personal nature

Tips and gratuity

Day 5: Masvingo

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)

Expert tips

Entrance fee into the Great Zimbabwe Ruins is $15, you will have to pay a little extra for the guide which we recommend.

If you don’t have much time and you’re a fast walker, you could see the whole site in couple of hours, but it’s best to dedicate about 4 hours to walk around it, to have some food and soak up the atmosphere.

There are toilet facilities at the main gate and museum, but not inside the ruins themselves. There’s no supermarket or cash machine at Great Zimbabwe Monument and Ruins – ATMs can be found in the town of Masvingo 25 km away (we pass through the town on our way from Harare to your hotel which if very close to the monuments).

TIP: It can get hot at Great Zimbabwe so make sure you have a hat, water and sunscreen, and maybe an umbrella to use as shade.

Activities and Services

Included

Transfer to great Zimbabwe

Accommodation  DBB at the City At The Ancient City

Tour of the great Zimbabwe Monument

Excluded

Items of personal nature

Tips and gratuity 

Optional Tours 

Day 6: Matobo National Park

Transfer to Matopos National Park

This morning we will drive to Bulawayo. For about 3,5 hours we will be going through rural Zimbabwe with minor growth points along the way. We'll check in at the Matopo National Park to explore this Park which is full of culture and rock paintings to marvel at. 

Matobo National Park is in southwest Zimbabwe. It’s known for the Matobo Hills, a range of balancing rock formations created by the erosion of the granite plateau. The walls of Nswatugi Cave feature Stone Age rock art. The park has significant populations of black eagles and both black and white rhinos. The grave of Cecil Rhodes, founder of former British colony Rhodesia, is carved into the summit of Malindidzimu. The activities to be done are game drive for the rhinos, Khami ruins tour, bushman paintings tour, village tour & Cecil John Rhodes grave tour.

Overnight at Amalinda Lodge (or similar) DBB

Expert tips

Why Your Visit Will be Special?: 

  • The largest concentrations of black and white rhinoceros in Zimbabwe making it easy to spot one or more of the large population of this endangered species during a visit.
  • Over 3,000 known San rock art sites including Nswatugi Cave, White Rhino Shelter and nearby Bambata Cave, Inanke Cave and Silozwane Cave just outside the park.
  • Numerous cultural and historical sites either within, or surrounding the National Park and still retains great cultural significance for many local people. Also, the only National Park to replace the old Rhodesian-style wood burning boilers with solar power in all accommodation. 
  • The Matobo comprises a unique landscape with amazing balancing rocks
  • Cecil John Rhodes is buried at the site he described as having a “view of the World.”

Day 7: Matobo National Park

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. Dassies or rock hyrax are very common and the leopard density  is also very high.

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

Overnight at Amalinda Lodge (or similar) DBB

Expert tips

Activities here can be tailor-made to your needs - you will have to communicate these to your assigned guide on arrival.

Activities and Services

Included

Accommodation on full board including activities

  

Excluded

Items of personal nature

Park entry fees

Tips and gratuity

Day 8: Central Hwange National Park

Transfer to Hwange National Park

After breakfast we depart for Hwange National park. You will be at the Hwange Main Camp at around 13:00 where you will have lunch before departing on your game drive/transfer to Camp Hwange. Activities at Camp Hwange include Game Drives, Walking Safaris/Game Walks and Nights Game Drives. You will arrange these with your assigned guide on arrival.

Overnight at the Camp on full board with all  Game Viewing activities

Included

Transfer to Camp Hwange 

 Accommodation on full board including activities 

Excluded

Items of personal nature 

 Park entry fees 

 Tips and gratuity

Day 9: Central Hwange National Park

Safari in the Hwange National Park

Full day of game viewing per your arrangements with your guide

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

Expert tips

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.

Activities and Services

Included

Accommodation on full board basis including activities 

 

Excluded

items of personal nature 

Tips and gratuity

Day 10: Central Hwange National Park

Safari in the Hwange National Park

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

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

Expert tips

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.

Activities and Services

Included

Accommodation on full board basis (including activities)

Excluded

Items of personal nature

Tips and gratuity

Day 11: Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe)

Camp Hwange will drop you off at the Hwange Main Camp for the onward transfer to Victoria Falls.  After check in at the Elephant Hills resort  you will do the guided tour of the Victoria Falls  and end the day with a sunset boat cruise on the Zambezi River,

Overnight at the Elephant Hills Resort  with breakfast

Tour of The Falls Shearwater Standard Sunset Cruise Tour of The Falls

Included

Transfer to Camp Hwange 

 Accommodation on full board including activities 

Excluded

Optional Activities 

 Park entry fees

Items of personal nature

Day 12: Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe)

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 (or similar), an afternoon game drive in the Chobe National Park and refreshments throughout the trip

Dinner will be at the Boma restaurant.

Overnight at the Elephant Hills resort with breakfast

Main area with the pool

Expert tips

The Boma- Place of Eating is a Must Do whilst in Victoria Falls., it is an unforgettable African experience infused with Zimbabwean cuisine.

Partially open to the African skies, it offers a unique experience that bombards the senses with the tastes, sights, sounds and smells of Africa - together with the warmth and hospitality of Zimbabwe and it's people.

Specialising in a superb selection of traditional Zimbabwean dishes, The Boma offers a four-course meal combining a mouth watering choice of starters from the kitchen, soup from the campfire and a substantial barbeque buffet served on cast iron plates.

They offer a wide variety of salads from the salad bar and to follow a choice of delicious desserts from the buffet area.

Dress

Guests should dress casually and bring along light but warm clothing. 

Activities and Services

Transfer to Kazungula Border

Excluded

Items of personal nature

 Tips and gratuity

Day 13: End of Itinerary

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.

Included

Airport transfer

 

Excluded

Optional Tours 

Tips and gratuity

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