Destinations

Victoria Falls
Okavanago Delta
Mount Kilimanjaro
Indian Ocean Privacy
Exotic Zanzibar
Cape Town
Garden Route Golf
Nakuru Flamingos
Amboseli Elephants
Zambezi River Camps
Interior Zambia
Malawi by the Lake
Skeleton Coast
Kruger National Park
Serengeti

Zambezi River Camps - Interior Zambezi

Lower Zambezi Camps we recommend are on both banks of the great river downstream of Kariba Dam and on the shores of the lake itself. They are outstanding wilderness bases from which to view the Big Five and thousands of beautiful birds

After Mugabe stole land and ruined Zimbabwe's tourism in the early years of the century its popular Zambezi camps were supplanted by development of similar lodges camps in Zambia on the northern bank of Africa's legendary river. Mugabe is less powerful today. Excellent Zimbabwe camps have been re-furbished and re-opened at competitive prices. These provide our discerning clients with the bespoke safari service they most appreciate: excellent value choices; good wild life viewing in some of Africa's most dramatic and remote riverine landscape - some at exceptionally affordable prices. Zimbabwe's camps and lodge owners are doing all they can to entice the tourist back - with success.

Tiger fishing was one of the major attractions. Now many people can afford to stay in Zimbabwe camps specialising in tiger fishing. Example: nine days all found for USD2 840 per person and that includes being met at the airport by your private air charter people, return flights to the Zambezi camp, transfers, meals, drinks, fishing tackle, boat, fuel, guide, park fees. What a holiday.

Tiger fishing and a lot more besides awaits you at Mana Pools, also on the Zimbabwe bank. Mana Pools has long been popular with Zimbabweans because it caters for every pocket, including those who just want somewhere to pitch a tent and get on with it on their own. At the other end of the scale visitors can stay in exclusive private camps equipped with new open 4x4s for wildlife drives where it is possible to see the Big Five. Wonderful trees, including acacia albida, and stunningly coloured riverine birds abound here.

Also now in Zimbabwe's Zambezi river camps you can enjoy charming thatched accommodation with private dressing room, bathroom with colonial style bath, teak windows and doors, reference libraries and research centres, wonderful cuisine and standards of service for which Zimbabweans have always been well known.

On the northern, Zambian, side of the river, award- winning camps also have earned justifiable reputations for delivering perfect safari experiences, many specialising in providing King & King with perfect bespoke honeymoon solutions: the sights, the sounds, the special attention, the magic of Africa alongside the enormous river churning its way to the Indian Ocean.

Most camps on both sides of the Zambezi offer a fully inclusive product. What you pay up front is all you pay, subject to sudden unavoidable increases in such items as park fees. These are always spelled out in K&K pre-booking information. All inclusive often means everything, including meals, transfers, services of guides, trackers and 4x4s, drinks, park fees, laundry - everything except tips.

Access to both southern and northern banks of the Zambezi is relatively easy: usually by overnight international flights to Harare or Lusaka or first to Johannesburg and then the regional hubs and air charter flights of an hour or two to the river camps. King & King representatives will always meet you at flight destinations, including Johannesburg when your itinerary involves a transit through it.