Southern Hwange National Park * Evening sundowners on Elephant Express * North-Western Hwange * Victoria Falls
The Relaxing Zimbabwe Safari Offer is a nine-night safari itinerary designed for those who value space, time, and an unhurried safari rhythm. By spending three nights at each location, you can fully immerse yourself in the landscapes, wildlife, and activities on offer. Creating a safari that feels both immersive and genuinely restorative. It also includes 1 or 2 complimentary nights – and a free flight – depending on the season. It includes visits to two of the scenic highlights of Zimbabwe β Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls.
The journey begins along the Zambezi River at Old Drift Lodge, ideally positioned for both exploring Victoria Falls and its surrounding wilderness. From here, you enjoy a varied mix of activities: guided visits to the Falls, tranquil canoeing and boating on the Zambezi, and game drives and walking safaris in Zambezi National Park. It’s an elegant and immersive introduction to Zimbabwe.
From Victoria Falls, you fly south to Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe’s premier big-game destination. Your first three nights are spent at Bomani Tented Camp in the southern part of the park. Here you combine superb game viewing with meaningful conservation and community encounters. The lodge is renowned for its rhino conservation project, exceptional elephant photographic hide, and opportunities to visit nearby village initiatives β offering a deeper connection to both people and place. During your time, you enjoy a sundowner 2-hour train safari aboard the Elephant Express railcar, a wonderfully nostalgic and uniquely Zimbabwean experience. Game viewing unfolds along the way as you travel by rail.
Next you fly onto Nehimba Safari Camp, set in a productive north-western sector of the park. This region is known for excellent wildlife sightings and a strong sense of remoteness.
This safari can be reversed to end at Victoria Falls or shorten if time is limited (though the sample itinerary currently includes a complimentary night on safari).
Adding Jozibanini Camp & Tum Tum Tree House (12 nights)
If you have more time, the itinerary can be extended to include 2 nights at Tum Tum Treehouse and also the remote and adventurous Jozibanini Camp in anΒ area of Hwange famed for its large elephant herds. We show the price for adding 3 nights (reduce Bomani to 2 nights) to make a 12-night Zimbabwe Safari Offer.
Note that this 12-night safari is only an option between May and October.
Upgrade Option (9 nights)
You can also use to upgrade Bomani Tented Camp to Camelthorn Camp and change Old Drift to Victoria Falls River Lodge. See our Upgrade price below.

On arrival in Victoria Falls, you are met and transferred to the luxurious Old Drift Lodge Camp on the banks of the Zambezi River.
Enjoy guided canoe trips in stable inflateable canoes or boating excursions followed by sundowner drinks on the river bank. You can also try your luck at some tiger fishing. On land enjoy game drives and bush walks with experienced guides in the Zambezi National Park. Elephant can be found loitering on the mainland or in the river, while hippo, waterbuck and bushbuck frequent the reed banks and islands. Lions can be heard calling at night and the birdlife is prolific β African finfoot, African skimmer, pratincoles and Pelβs fishing owl all occur here.
Upgrade Option: Victoria Falls River Lodge
Today, after an early morning game drive and brunch, you are transferred to Victoria Falls in time for a charter flight (50 mins) down to the northern sector of Hwange National Park.
Hwange National Park is Zimbabweβs premier game park. Hwange is big game country with massive herds of elephants, especially visible at the end of the dry season in September, as well as lion, buffalo, hyena, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest sable, roan and other antelope. Game-viewing in Hwange is made easier by the shallow salt pans throughout the park. These natural salt pans offer the perfect cooling mud bath for elephants. Here you take part in early morning and late afternoon game drives in open 4Γ4 vehicles and game walks.
Nehimba Lodge is deeply hidden inside a private concession in northern region of Hwange. It lies on the edge of the mopane woodlands to the north and the kalahari sandveld of the south and west. All the diversity of Hwangeβs fauna and flora is within easy reach.
By combining luxury with elegance and lots of African charm, this lodge offers a wonderful safari experience. The main guest area and 7 spacious guest accommodations are thatched tents built on teak decks, all overlooking the magnificent pan β a favoured spot frequented by a large numbers of elephants, particularly in the dry season, as well by a variety of other wildlife.
No two days are the same at Nehimba Lodge and game viewing is tailored to your preferences with the choice of game drives, walking safaris and night game drives on their private concession in search of nocturnal species. The lodge is close to the Nehimba seep, one of the only year-round naturally occurring sources of surface water in the whole of Hwange. This is mecca for animals in the later dry winter months and elephants come from miles to dig for precious water.
Today, after breakfast, you are transferred via a mix of road transfer and then the unique Elephant Express railcar to the south-east corner of Hwange.
You first take a one hour road transfer through the park game-viewing en route to Dete. You then take the unique two hour train safari to Ngamo. (Imvelo Safaris have come up with a unique way of arriving, or leaving, in style. They have built a special railcar which travels on the railway between their lodges. You can enjoy game-viewing en route as it is open-sided.)
Here you are met and have a 5 min transfer back to camp.
Activities include early morning and afternoon game drives but also plenty of walking if you are keen. Enjoy al fresco dining under the ancient camelthorn, savour your morning coffee in front of a roaring fire, track herds of elephant by foot, and enjoy close up photography from inside the amazing look-up elephant blind.
Camouflaged as a termite heap, the photographic opportunities from the hide at Stoffieβs Pan are dramatic. Elephants can be photographed from toe level silhouetted against the sky. Such close proximity to Hwangeβs huge bulls is breath-taking.
We have included an evening train safari on the Elephant Express
Upgrade Option:Β Camelthorn camp
If you want to explore further into Hwange, we recommend reducing your time at Bomani Camp to 2 nights, then taking a scenic game-viewing drive to Tum Tum treehouse for 2 nights, then onto the remote and adventurous Jozibanini Camp for a final two nights, making it a 12-night safari in total.
You then take a charter flight back to Victoria Falls
This morning you take the seat in charter flight back to Victoria Falls in time for your onward flight connections.
This is a sample itinerary using specific hotels and lodges. However most of these sample tours can be adapted to suit you. If applicable, it includes domestic seat-in-charter flights. But it excludes any regional and domestic scheduled flights (as these are subject to change and specific routing). These are added to a specific quotation once we have your dates.
Accommodation, all meals, road transfers & between lodges, services of experienced ranger whilst on safari, local drinks
EXCLUDESInternational flights, visas, items of a personal nature, meals not specified
