Itinerary

1. Day 1: Victoria Falls

   • Meet your driver and get transferred to Dzimbahwe Guest Lodge, a comfortable lodge located in the peaceful area of Victoria Falls closer to the game corridor, approximately 3km from the central falls, where you will sleep for two nights.
   • Head to enjoy a spectacular Sunset Dinner Cruise on the magnificent Zambezi River, followed by a four-course meal, freshly prepared on board by chefs, and served.
   • See hippos, crocs, elephants, and many birds that cross the river to feed on the islands.

2. Day 2: Victoria Falls Rain-Forest

   • After Breakfast, go through the Victoria Falls Rain-Forest known to the native as Mosi-Oa-Tunya. This journey not only affords a view of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World but provides a lot of interesting facts about the geology, wildlife and history of Africa’s most famous landmark. 
   • Then later, after the Falls tour, enter the world of the traditional people of rural Zimbabwe for a village tour. This experience gives you a greater understanding of how the local community lives. 
   • A visit to a local Zimbabwean village is an eye-opening experience and interactive outing, providing insight into the old ways of the Zimbabwean people, essentially taking you back in time. Most rural Zimbabwean folk are subsistence farmers, so they have little interaction with urban centres apart from selling surplus produce.
   • Polish the day in the evening by enjoying the Boma-Dinner & Drum Show, a “must-do” Victoria Falls dining and entertainment experience specializing in traditional African food, drumming and dancing. The food is cooked and served in the style and quantity of a lavish feast, including irresistible desserts. You are dressed in a chitenge (traditional sarong) and welcomed into a vibrant atmosphere on arrival. The tantalizing aromas of local dishes and game meat on the braai (barbecue) fill the restaurant partially open to the star-filled African sky.

3. Day 3: Hwange

   • Travel through Hwange, a rustic and charming town, to Ganda Lodge, which is unperturbed by the presence of human beings that overlooks a natural waterhole.
   • After lunch you will take a rest as you await to be picked by an experienced and informative guide for a night game drive through an estate harbouring nocturnals as hyenas, genets, civets, etc.

4. Day 4: Hwange National Park

   • Enjoy a full day game drive into Hwange National Park, situated in western Zimbabwe. It is the country's biggest game reserve, home to a profusion of wildlife, including giraffe lion, zebra and approximately 40 000 elephants. It provides a sanctuary for all the country's endangered species, including a population of wild dogs thought to be among the most sizeable surviving groups on the continent.
   • Enjoy a picnic lunch and ride back into the park's magnificent terrain ranges from desert dunes, savannah lands and mopane woodlands to rocky outcrops and sparse forests having the sundowner in nature.
   • Finish the day with dinner at the lodge and some time to relax before your tomorrow's early morning drive to Matobo Hills.

5. Day 5: Matobo

   • Depart the lodge after your breakfast with your driver for a drive to Matobo Hills Lodge.
   • Pass through Bulawayo, a gateway to Matobo National Park; it is the second-largest city in Zimbabwe. The largest city in the country's Matabeleland has wide tree-lined avenues, parks and charming colonial architecture. After a 52 km drive from Bulawayo, you will arrive at Matobo Hills lodge for check-in to such a fantastic lodge with large sunlit windows offering you breath-taking views of the Matobo Hills and the secluded bush surrounds.
   • Towards sun-downer, you can either choose to hike up the rocky hill near the lodge to enjoy a fantastic sunset view of the Matobo National Park or relax by the poolside.

6. Day 6: Matobo National Park

   • Get ready for an unforgettable experience of the Matobo Day Trip within Matobo Hills and National Park by visiting one of Africa’s hidden gems for its impressive scenery, huge granite boulders, and various animal species.
   • Go to the Rhino tracking on foot and see ancient Bushmen paintings. 
   • Be treated to a three-course meal lunch by your guide.
   • Head to see Cecil John Rhodes grave accompanied by the beautiful sunset scenery along the way.

7. Day 7: Great Zimbabwe

   • Grab your breakfast, check out the hotel, and head to Great Zimbabwe with your driver for an almost 4 hours’ drive passing through Masvingo, a small town with palm-lined, wide streets lined with rather dilapidated buildings; it is 27 km away from the Great Zimbabwe Ruins.
   • Check-in to the lodge at the Ancient City, built in the same style as Great Zimbabwe, providing stunning views across the valley of Msasa. The Lodge at the Ancient City provides distinctive accommodation for guests, with furnishings that provoke thoughts of royal dwellings of African legends.

8. Day 8: Great Zimbabwe Archaeological Complex

   • This morning after breakfast you will check out from the lodge and your driver will take you to your guide who will walk with you on the tour of the ruins of this ancient place for almost 3 hours, giving you an insight into these old, grandeur ruins of Great Zimbabwe. The ruins are known as the greatest medieval city in sub-Saharan Africa. It is the World Heritage–listed Great Zimbabwe which is one of the nation's most treasured sights, so much so that the country was named after it.
     
     
   • After the tour, you'll head to Harare, the capital. You will stay overnight at Cresta Lodge Harare. Before you reach your lodge, you will drive through Harare town which is the most populous city in Zimbabwe. It is laid-back with wide avenues, lined with dusty red earth, indigenous plants, and blooming jacarandas, giving it a lovely African summertime feel.

9. Day 9: Departure

   • Finally, after an interesting trip, you'll drive through some of Zimbabwe’s most popular sites. You will check out from Cresta Lodge after breakfast. You will then be transferred by your driver to Harare International Airport to catch your flight.