After clearing customs and immigration formalities we will meet you and take you to Jacana Gardens where you can relax in the beautiful gardens and get you on the right time zone for your safari.
We will leave after breakfast on the drive that takes you through some beautiful countryside that shows you small towns and traditional villages and a big change in altitude as we drop down into one of Zimbabwe's lowest areas.
Our camp in Gona re Zhou is a tented safari camp with large walk in safari tents and en suite ablutions and dining tent area to ensure you are comfortable in this stunning area of Zimbabwe and part of a massive wildlife area that is well known for its tremendous diversity.
Our game viewing while we are here will be a combination of game drives and walking so we get the best from this beautiful national park that is becoming one of Southern Africa's top wildlife destinations which is well deserved as a result of its excellent game viewing with incredible variety of habitats and species.
One of the highlights here is a walk along the Runde River seeing the huge elephant bulls and with the back drop of the famous Chilojo Cliffs will give you a very memorable safari experience.
We leave Gona re Zhou today and travel back up onto the Highveld of Zimbabwe through to the historical town of Bulawayo and onwards to the very different Matopos National Park that has so much to offer in terms of history both ancient and modern along with stunning scenery and a top area to track rhino on foot.
Another full day to explore this very different safari area either tracking rhino, trying to interpret the amazing cave art from bushmen thousands of years ago or looking for some of the other special animals here like Klipspringer and Rock Dassies.
After a good breakfast we will load up and travel further West to get through to Hwange National Park. Its a very picturesque road travelling through many kilometres of Zambezi Teak interspersed with small villages, the plan will be to arrive at the park entry at lunch time and then we will change over into an open safari vehicle for the journey through the park to camp - a game drive all the way.
Game viewing in this area of Hwange is normally along the open grasslands of the Kennedy Vlei or into the wide open of the Ngweshla Pans - these are great safari areas with good variety and lots of water points to sit and watch the daily activity.
A big part of a safari into Hwange is the incredible density of elephants that congregate around the many waterpoints, this is an amazing opportunity to be very close amongst the action and to be able to watch the complexities of elephant behaviour as they interact with one another.
Another morning of game viewing in Hwange on our way to the airstrip for the flight out of Hwange through to Victoria Falls, you will be met at the airport and then transferred to your lodge. Once ou have settled in you will have time to catch the free shuttle bus that takes you to the Victoria Falls themselves where you can spend the afternoon marvelling at this incredible wonder of nature before coming back to the lodge for sundowner looking over the Zambezi National Park.
You will have another morning to enjoy some of the many activities in Victoria Falls or just relax and enjoy the lodge facilities before your transfer takes you back to the airport for your onward flights home or maybe to continue the safari through into Botswana.
