Top 5 Zimbabwe Outdoor Activities: A Traveler’s Guide

Thinking about seeing Zimbabwe? Like, for some seriously unforgettable experiences out in the open? The southern African country, it’s almost overflowing with stuff that can get your pulse racing and feed your soul travel guide here. This list will take you through just five experiences which I feel kind of show the true grit and glamour of this amazing place. Very ready?

1. Witness the Majesty of Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls, or “The Smoke that Thunders” (Mosi-oa-Tunya), is that sort of sight you just have to take in to believe. What’s really happening is, the Zambezi River sort of dramatically throws itself over a cliff face into the gorge below, and this is all to form one just enormous curtain of water that I’d say is truly spellbinding. Seeing it for sure? It’s just spectacular. You get the mists rising up, they’re all glistening like millions of fairy lights in the sunlight, and I’m like your eyes, that too they’ll get widened Victoria Falls adventures. Now there are other angles and perspectives too. How would you prefer your adrenaline? Through white-water rafting at high intensity at the rapids or how does a bungee jump strike you like over the actual falls.

Or maybe you’re just down for something more chilled. How do you like going down into the Batoka Gorge which, as it’s worth saying, allows you an absolute eagle-eyed view of the actual cascade? You’d probably get pretty stunned by something which does deliver in big, breathtaking doses the majesty of the Zimbabwe’s natural gifts. A word? Epic.

2. Explore Hwange National Park

Want a truly spectacular experience? Just go down for sure to Hwange National Park for the very top safari encounter. The location, just to put you in the picture, is that it’s Zimbabwe’s actual largest wildlife reserve which means, in other words, like endless stretches of savannah, like very picturesque teak woodlands too, it can really be like, the location, it looks absolutely set from something like the African movie ‘The Lion King’! But wait up Hwange excursions!

Get involved then as the elephants here that sometimes, that too, can feel that they are, sort of gathering and, oh I dunno, generally mooching around the watering holes (this is where it becomes obvious, it feels obvious they love that), very specially in dry season when it gets intensely crowded with animals wanting their share of hydration! Hwange could very easily just blow your senses, really, just watching like lions just nonchalantly wandering. And these are the other sights too, so giraffe, there’s also the painted dogs, and oh I dunno hundreds more things. It is actually all that can fulfill your inner desires for great wilderness and great things wildlife!

3. Canoe Down the Zambezi in Mana Pools

Fancy some water activity? Consider paddling across the really, really gorgeous setting of Mana Pools National Park. UNESCO says: this zone’s so important to us it’s of great heritage! Canoe tours, are you listening yet? The ones they are running here at the park, those too give tourists this opportunity, and very intimate it is, which involves cruising this river, whilst the big guys, very notably like buffalo and, too, elephants will watch you drinking at the water’s side. That very quiet motion in your craft that too is likely going to see hippos, too crocodiles also. So too lots of varied local avifauna which all that? Does turn Mana Pool’s into, quite genuinely, one serious safari which can’t be competed against!

4. Hike Among the Mystical Matobo Hills

Here too is somewhere UNESCO treasures, calling the hills there this region! It does showcase just some rather dramatic rock formations, rock art dating almost a little bit prior to even the start of time as you and I see it; those very balancing granite formations there, that alone gives all-round appeal on the landscape front. Very significant also, this specific vicinity: It can also, just very handily, let you think deeply in terms of your spirituality and you’ll probably even appreciate its, you know, overall atmosphere in what I believe feels absolutely the quietest of atmospheres Walking trails! Consider also going for the walking expeditions here for a look into places of value like, this guy, Cecil Rhodes, what they called ‘View of the World’, it’s basically here he requested the final place they place his remains at. So, with the walking boots at the ready, too it’s almost obvious for you to fully grasp, absolutely here, how this destination captures just very raw Zimbabwe.

5. Discover Great Zimbabwe Ruins

For a total deep-dive in the land, you and I must go check it out! How’s the vibe from Zimbabwe back as far as Iron Age? A place from those distant eons which might make your jaw drop; it does speak, perhaps quite deeply too, of culture going way back – specifically the era covering from 11th Century AD through to as late as the 15th; at that very location archeological expeditions! These rather incredible stone monuments stand high and might speak of some things like craft skills of some old local Bantu civilisation.

The structures – they were completely erected in stones, this happening with precisely zero cement being poured: just a total hands-only affair. Have yourself, while there, the chance to be walking among The Great Enclosure walls as you take photos, the pictures too may serve for you to remember forevermore the very interesting trip down ancient Zimbabwe.