Luxury holidays in Zimbabwe
Walk beside the Zambezi at Mana Pools and stand in the spray of Victoria Falls. We book licensed walking guides, riverside camps and the light-aircraft flights between them.
It comes off your final price, and is refunded in full if you don't go ahead.
Zimbabwe
3 days · 2 nights
Victoria Falls
A short stay at Victoria Falls, with two nights at a lodge near the town. You arrive in time for a sunset cruise on the Zambezi, spend the next morning with a guide at the falls themselves, and have the rest of that day and your last morning free.
Zimbabwe is the place to step out of the vehicle. Its professional guides train for years before they can lead a walk, and at Mana Pools you follow one on foot along the Zambezi floodplain as elephants rise on their hind legs to reach winter thorn pods. Downstream, canoe safaris drift past hippo and buffalo grazing on the islands.
Victoria Falls is best seen on the Zimbabwe side, where most of the viewpoints face the full width of the falls. Hwange National Park holds lions, wild dogs and big elephant herds in teak and mopane woodland, and the Matobo Hills hide rock art among balancing granite boulders. Lake Kariba ends many trips with houseboats and long sunsets over drowned trees.
Ways to see Victoria Falls your travel expert can add to any safari.
Follow the rainforest path along the gorge with a private guide, stopping at each viewpoint as the spray rises from the falls.
See the whole curtain of water and the zigzag gorges from the air, the view Livingstone imagined angels had.
Cross rope bridges and zip lines strung high above the Batoka Gorge, with the falls thundering nearby.
Victoria Falls is the gateway, and the Zambezi valley and Hwange hold the walking and the predators.
The Zimbabwe side gives the widest views of the falls, with paths through the spray-fed rainforest opposite.
Calm water above the falls, with sunset cruises past hippos, elephants on the banks and islands in the river.
The dry months, roughly May to October, concentrate wildlife around water, and the falls run fullest a little earlier in the year.
Summer rains, the falls rising and the bush green.
Wet and humid, with the river climbing fast.
Rains ease, the falls are full and loud.
Peak flow with heavy spray, a dramatic time to see the falls.
Full falls, clear skies and mild days.
Cool, dry and still a strong flow over the falls.
Dry winter days, clearer views as the spray drops.
Dry and warm, good for river cruises and nearby game drives.
Warm and dry, the falls lower and the gorge more visible.
The hottest month, with the lowest water of the year.
Hot with the first rains, the river starts to rise.
Summer rains return and the bush turns green.
A short flight out of Johannesburg lands you a few minutes' drive from the falls.
The Zambian side of the falls is across the bridge, and Cape Town is a direct flight south.
Livingstone's side of the falls, with Chobe and the Okavango.
Cape Town, the winelands and Big Five safaris near Kruger.
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