Zimbabwe Travel Guide

Pay Now Travel Later

If 2020 taught us anything it's that life is so unpredictable. If you have put off traveling for many seasons you probably kicked yourself a bit when we were stuck indoors and leisure traveling was out of the question. We can say much about the benefits of travel but we focus now on a clever planning perspective. The Pay now and travel later concept

Aberfoyle Lodge A Hidden Gem In The Honde Valley

Aberfoyle Lodge is situated on a tea estate in the Honde Valley approximately 400 kilometres from Harare on the Mutare/Juliusdale Road via Rusape Town. The main lodge has sixteen rooms, two are suites, namely Fish Eagle and Seedcracker they are spacious and overlook the golf course. All the other standard rooms overlook the forest and all have tea and coffee stations, hair dryers, and en suite bathrooms. In addition to this, they have a dormitory block which consists of 4 rooms with 4 bunk beds each sleeping capacity of thirty-two people in total. Then a short drive away is Hornbill House which can sleep 7 people making Abefoyle Lodge the ideal choice to celebrate a special occasion in our case a joint 50th celebration.

Pure Africa Cruise Experience Victoria Falls

I believe no Victoria Falls trip is complete without going on a river cruise. There is something incredibly relaxing about being on the water and being surrounded by all that beauty. On a recent trip to the resort town, we had the pleasure of sampling a sunset cruise aboard the Zambezi Explorer. The Zambezi Explorer is under the Pure Africa stable; it is one of three fine vessels on which they are offering leisure experiences on the Zambezi.

Kavinga Safari Camp - Mana Pools - A Memorable Experience

Kavinga Safari Camp is an exceptional wildlife destination that offers a remarkable experience for nature enthusiasts and wildlife lovers. Situated in a pristine wilderness area of Mana Pools, Kavinga Safari Camp provides a perfect combination of luxurious accommodation, knowledgeable guides, and exceptional staff service, ensuring an unforgettable safari adventure

Exploring Kazuma Pan National Park

Black smudges of black shapes. Brilliant black coats, a white proud blaze ever so slightly standing out from the burnt black woodland. It is fire season and the antelope is Sable. A group of around 7, 8, and 9 females was sitting under the shade. A bull was standing sentry a short way apart, the gatekeeper to Kazuma Pan. “I’ve never seen anything like it before, it’s like something out of a book!” Casey gasped as we drove away from the Sable, sentinel and unmoving from the precious shade, away from the last groves of Mopane and into the depression. As Alec, Kazuma’s Senior Ranger had promised us at the park’s reception, “it's not that big but I can assure you, it’s very rich.” It is. Very, very rich. Scan the flat, shimmering horizon and you’ll watch the sloping tsessebe, Africa’s fastest antelopes, herds of zebra in numbers unlike I’ve seen elsewhere - 40, 50, 60? - oribi, endemic to the Kazuma Depression, roan, giraffe, gemsbok, reedbuck, and eland

Self Drive Adventures 2024

This incredible 42 day circuit of Zimbabwe starts and ends in Johannesburg. We head into Zimbabwe from the south and travel in a clockwise direction. From our recent experience, on this route most of the national parks (other than at Victoria Falls and Hwange) do not have much tourism at present.

528 I Victoria Falls

528 I Victoria Falls is a family-run Bed and Breakfast located in Vic Falls. We were privileged to visit earlier this month to get a first-hand impression of the lodge. It is just a short drive from the heart of Victoria Falls, within easy reach of shopping facilities and other amenities. We were given a warm welcome by the hosts' Paul and Meredith, who are always around helping out with guest relations and making sure everyone is comfortable. We were given some homemade lemonade as a welcome beverage when we arrived.

Our Visit To Matopo National Park

It was 5 pm and we were headed toward the Whovi Wild Area exit and back to the campsite, we were to sleep in. Whovi is part of the Matopo Hills National Park in Zimbabwe’s Matebeleland province. There, in a slashed fire-break with the golds of those perfect last hours of daylight flashing liquid-white on their black backs were a calf and cow. White rhino. Casey who had spotted the pair laughed, “well here we go again, more of that picture book stuff”

Driving Through Hwange National Park

She sat open-mouthed, her pink-barbed tongue lolling, panting at the effort of the feast. She was not so much looking at us through her glowering, heavy-lidded eyes as through us. Somewhere far, far away. Her pin-prink black pupils were glazed. Her body was heaving with the in and out breaths of an overly fed lion. She wasn’t going anywhere. Four others were soldiering through, taking lazy, slow bites off of the carcass that lay between them, masticating over each mouthful. One of the four moved ever so slightly, stretching her front paws from under her, making space for her round belly. I was reminded of contestants at an all-you-can-eat contest.