Lower Zambezi Valley

• Prime wilderness areas
• Lake Kariba
• Beautiful scenery

The lower Zambezi valley is a region of spectacular beauty, fed by the powerful Zambezi River as it flows from the magnificent Victoria Falls through the Zambezi Valley and on to Lake Kariba. It is a landscape of lush islands and floodplains, sandbanks, verdant forests of indigenous trees and large game populations in and around the water.

On either sides of the Zambezi, are prime game reserves like the Mana Pools National Park, a World Heritage Site and haven for endangered animals as well as the Lower Zambezi National Park, the country’s most recent national park. Birdwatchers can see more than 350 bird species and for water sport enthusiasts, this stretch of the Zambezi offers some of the world’s greatest canoe trails. Game viewing trips by boat or canoe are extremely popular and anglers enjoy the opportunity to catch tiger fish and bream.

Special features include:

• Lower Zambezi National Park
  The park lies directly opposite the Mana Pools National Park in Zimbabwe and is the country’s newest park. As such, most of the park is completely unspoilt with very few roads and a tantalizing wilderness atmosphere. There are a number of lodges in the area who arrange transport for their guests. It is 4092km² of beautiful bush with hordes of wild animals – with up to 100 elephants in a herd congregating around the water’s edge. Apart from large herds of elephant, hippo and buffalo, the park is also well-known for good populations of lion, leopard and wild dog
  
• Lake Kariba
  Situated in the south, Lake Kariba is one of the world’s largest man-made dams. It was built in 1960 and is a major supplier of hydro-electric power to both Zimbabwe and Zambia. Most of the animals that were displaced during the building of the dam, were moved to surrounding game parks like Mana Pools and have adapted to their new surroundings, swimming over the streams to islands etc. This makes game viewing around the lake quite spectacular