Zambezi National Park Accommodation

As the river snakes into Zimbabwe, it skirts along the banks of the Zambezi National Park, a conservation area only a few kilometres upstream from Victoria Falls. Together with the smaller Victoria Falls National Park, Zambezi National Park covers about 56,000ha and offers game drives and thrilling half-day canoe trips on the river. The park has two notable game-viewing routes: one is accessed from the main gate outside the Victoria Falls town and expands into a network of roads along the riverbanks, while another starts about five kilometres outside the town and winds for 25 kilometres through the park’s southern section.

Travellers have the chance of spotting mammals both big and small on any of the park’s game drives. Lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, zebra, giraffe, sable antelope, eland, waterbuck, and more roam the mopane woodlands. The Zambezi River itself is home to 75 species of fish—including tigerfish and bream—making it an ideal game-fishing destination.

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