Hwange is Zimbabwe’s flagship park — 14,600 square kilometers of Kalahari sandveld holding around 30,000 elephant, strong lion prides and one of Africa’s most important populations of endangered painted dog.
Zimbabwe’s professional-guide license is the hardest to earn in Africa, and it shows: walking here is superb, and the private concessions run pumped waterholes where the dry-season procession of elephant is continuous. The park sits two hours from Victoria Falls.
Hwange is Zimbabwe’s flagship park and one of Africa’s great elephant strongholds — 40,000 or more in the dry season, drawn to pumped waterholes where lodges set their hides. It is quietly one of the best-value Big Five safaris in Southern Africa, and just two hours from Victoria Falls.
Highlights of Hwange National Park
Elephant at the waterholes
Dry-season herds queue at the pans in their hundreds — watched from sunken hides.
Painted dogs
Hwange is a stronghold for Africa’s most endangered large carnivore.
Walking with pro guides
Zimbabwe’s full professional guides are licensed to walk you close — safely.
Victoria Falls gateway
Two hours by road from the Falls — an easy, natural combination.
Explore Victoria Falls gateway →Best time to visit
Dry season — the waterhole spectacle at its peak.
Green season — migrant birds, newborn game and painted-dog denning later in the year.
Planning & cost
Usually three to four nights within a Zimbabwe safari from $8,000 per person.
Every journey is private, all-inclusive and tailor-made — your own guide and vehicle, the finest lodges, and a specialist on call throughout.
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Victoria Falls, Hwange’s elephants and the wild canoeing of Mana Pools.
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The greatest curtain of falling water on earth — a natural wonder.
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Canoe the Zambezi through a UNESCO World Heritage wilderness.
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Similar wildlife at notably better value, with guiding that rivals anywhere in Africa. Many journeys combine Hwange with Chobe or the Delta across the border.
A sunken, shaded blind at the edge of a pan that puts you at trunk level as elephant drink meters away — Hwange’s camps run some of the best in Africa.
Fly to Victoria Falls via Johannesburg, then a two-hour road transfer or short charter flight into the park.
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