Based on the banks of the Zambezi River, overlooking the slow moving waters of this mighty river and with the Zambian escarpment as a backdrop, our camp is perfectly placed to offer you a magnificent setting to your African Safari.

In the north of Zimbabwe lies the untouched wilderness of Mana pools National Park, a World Heritage Site encompassing an area of a quarter million hectares. Mana Pools is famous for its flood plains with its unique Acacia albida forests that set the stage for the everyday interactions between its many varied inhabitants:- Lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard, cheetah, impala, eland are just a few, together with over 350 bird species.

Mana Pools caters for a large range of activities:-

It is a wildlife photographer’s paradise with the excitement of getting up close to wild game in their natural habitat.

For the fisherman; sitting on the banks of this famous river fishing for bream, vundu, chessa or, with luck, the notoriously fighting tiger fish.

Canoeing, by prior arrangement, is another favorite, paddling past pods of hippo, sighting the odd crocodile basking on the banks or watching the multitude of birds as you quietly drift past absorbing breathtaking views and seeing many of the animals that come down to drink on the shoreline.

Walking through the bush with our professional guides, who are there to talk you through the interaction of the fauna and flora that abounds in this area.

Early morning and afternoon game drives give you an opportunity to traverse this vast area, with the prospect of some amazing sightings: – the sheer splendor of seeing big bull elephants stand on their back legs to reach the top branches of the Acacia albida to pluck the fruit off this life giving tree, or the huge herds of buffalo slowly moving beneath the trees feeding on the fallen pods. Around every corner there is the anticipation of something exciting about to happen.

Mana Pools is seasonal, with the first rains (Dec to Mar) the barren earth bursts into life with grasses and seeds that have lain dormant over the dry season. It is at this time that the impala drop their calves in unison with one of nature’s incredible ironies to overwhelm the ever present predators. Larger game like Elephants and buffalo will generally move away from the flood plains, but some of the older resident bulls of both species tend to stay in their uninterrupted world. In winter (May to Jul) the pans start to dry up and the cow herds of elephant and buffalo start to return to the river. The flood plain becomes a mass of highways of integrated game trails as the animals compete for their share of the food. As the season gets drier (Aug to Nov) the predators come into their own due to the abundant numbers of prey congregating on the flood plain in search of water and the pods of the Acacia albida. By mid November the rain clouds are building every day and finally the heavens open to a scorched earth and so the cycle of life begins again.

Once you have been to Mana Pools, we know that it won’t be long before you are back!