A fantastic small group adventure tour travelling in a customised touring vehicle between Victoria Falls and Johannesburg. Take in some of Zimbabwe’s greatest places including the Matopos, Great Zimbabwe and Hwange. A perfect add-on to a few days in Victoria Falls.
Highlights:
This morning we visit the spectacular Victoria Falls, also known by the local name of “Mosi-oa Tunya” (the smoke that thunders).
After our visit to the falls, we leave the rumble and adventure of Victoria Falls behind us as we make the journey south to Hwange National Park. Hwange is the largest of Zimbabwe’s national parks and offers excellent opportunities for viewing the diversity of wildlife that calls the park home.
Hotel: Hwange Main Camp or similar
Meals: Dinner
Home to the big-5, Hwange National Park also offers a wide variety of plains game and birdlife. Spend the day game driving (in open 4×4 vehicles) through Hwange in search of the animals.
Hotel: Hwange Main Camp or similar
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
After breakfast drive to the Matopos National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site where you will explore the park with a guide. Home to both the Black and White Rhino, the park is also well known for its distinctive rounded granite hills that inspire their Ndebele name ‘Matobo’, translated as ‘bald heads’. This evening drive to your overnight accommodation in Bulawayo.
Hotel: Traveller’s Guest House or similar
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Today visits another world heritage site, namely the Great Zimbabwe Ruins which date back to the late Iron Age. Enjoy a guided walking tour of this historic site, once a former capital and marvel at the intricate stonework of one of Africa’s most important early civilisations.
Hotel: Norma Jeans Lake View Resort or similar
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Leaving the sites of Zimbabwe behind we cross the Limpopo River and enter South Africa this afternoon. Our overnight stop allows us an opportunity to end the day with a swim in the hot springs of Tshipise.
Hotel: Forever Tshipise Resort or similar
Meals: Breakfast and dinner
Enjoy a scenic drive through South Africa’s Limpopo province to your tour’s end at the Belvedere Estate between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Meals: Breakfast
All prices are per person, based on 2 sharing a twin or double room. Seasonal variations may apply, please call Freedom Destinations for more information and availability. Accommodation specified is subject to availability and may be substituted to a similar or higher standard if necessary. Please note luggage restriction of 20kg.
Discover amazing wildlife and sample the local culture on a real African adventure.
Your safari includes:
Departure dates:
2019
Jun: 10* & 24
Jul: 8 & 22*
Aug: 5 & 19
Sep: 2*, 16 & 30
Oct: 14* & 28
Nov: 11 & 25*
Dec: 9 & 23
2020
Jan: 6* & 20
Feb: 3 & 17*
Mar: 2, 16 & 30*
Apr: 13 & 27
May: 11* & 25
Jun: 8 & 22*
Jul: 6 & 20
Aug: 3*, 17 & 31
Sep: 14* & 28
Oct: 12 & 26*
Nov: 9 & 23
Dec: 7* & 21
*Guaranteed departure.
