{"id":6503,"date":"2020-03-15T12:08:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T12:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.wildtimessafaris.com\/product\/safari-zambia-safari-zimbabwe-12-daagse-familiereis-hoogtepunten\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T08:23:43","slug":"safari-zimbabwe-12-days-family-safari-highlights","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/wildtimessafaris.com\/en\/product\/safari-zimbabwe-12-days-family-safari-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari Zimbabwe \u2013 12 days family safari highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Highlights of this safari:<\/h3>\n

Your safari will start on arrival in Harare, from where you will start your accompanied tour along the Great Zimbabwe ruins, before heading of to Matopo Hills and game viewing in Hwange National Park. You will end your safari in Victoria Falls.<\/p>\n

Program & Route:<\/h3>\n
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\"\"Day 1 Arrival Harare<\/h4>\n

Arrival in Harare and transfer to your accommodation on bed & breakfast basis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"Day 2 – 4 Great Ruins of Zimbabwe<\/h4>\n

Built between the eleventh and fifteenth century, Great Zimbabwe was once home to a community that kept cattle but also were engaging in metal cultivation. These ruins are the biggest in size of their sorts, but by no means the most unique.<\/p>\n

Other smaller ruins, can be found as far as Mozambique and are called zimbabwes. They have been plundered by treasure hunters from Europe in the ninetheenth century.<\/p>\n

You will visit these very interesting ruins.<\/p>\n

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Day 4 – 7 Matobo<\/h4>\n

Matobo National Park is the heart of the Matobo hills, an area of granite outcrops and valleys close to Bulawayo, south of Zimbabwe. It has Unesco status.<\/p>\n

The park is about 424 km2 in size and of that, about ten square kilometers are used as game reserve. Black and white rhino live here. Highest point is 1549 m and lies just outside the Northeastern border of the park.<\/p>\n

You will spot for game, as well as undertake other activities, like visiting rock paintings, do rhino tracking and perhaps visit Cecil Rhodes\u2019 grave.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Day 7 – 10 Hwange Nationaal Park<\/h4>\n

Your next stop is Hwange National Park. It is the biggest game park of Zimbabwe and houses more than 100 species of mammals and a stunning 400 bird species. You will find carnivores here, but also Oryx and Brown Hyenas in good numbers.<\/p>\n

Wild dogs also can be seen here, it is one of the larger populations in Africa. Lions often hunt close to the waterholes, especially during the dry season.<\/p>\n

Elephants can be seen in big herds, you can\u2019t miss them.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Day 10-12 Victoria Watervallen<\/h4>\n

Do we need to say anything about these falls? When you visit Southern Africa, these falls should be in your itinerary. Of course Wild Times Safaris will also include them in your safari.<\/p>\n

Lots of activities can be done here, from bungy jumping, to fufi slides, helicopter flights to whitewater rafting. There is just too much to mention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Day 12 Departure<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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