Conservation Safari

✈️: Scheduled safari aircraft flight from Harare International Airport to Dandawa Airstrip.

🚐: Game drive transfer from Dandawa Airstrip to Kanga Expeditions.

🚐: Game drive transfer from Kanga Expeditions to Zambezi Expeditions or Nyamatusi Camp

The journey continues in Zimbabwe in the Mana Pools Nation Park. Mana, which means 4, derives its name from the four pools in the the national park. Located along the mighty lower Zambezi, this national parks is a beautiful showcase of the restorative power of conservation at work. Mana Pools in its glory days was a vibrant eco-system bursting with wildlife and natural forestry that rapidly died out over the years due to poaching and human settlement. Active conservation efforts in the park, tourism, managing wildlife and partnering with the community has brought Mana Pools and its wildlife back to life. This destination is the perfect start to a 9 night adventure about conservation as we stand on the edge of a national park and wildlife that stood face to face with eradication, that is now being saved and safeguarded through conservation.

🚐: Game drive transfer from Zambezi Expeditions or Nyamatusi Camp to Mana Main Airstrip.

✈️: Scheduled safari aircraft flight from Mana Main Airstrip to Bumi Airstrip.

🚐: Game drive transfer from Bumi Airstrip to Bumi Hills Safari Lodge.

We then journey to Lake Karibia where we will learn about the conservation efforts on its shores and in the national park. With its rich history of bream and tiger fishing, the rising water levels which gave birth to Starvation Island, and the interconnectedness between the lake, the elephants on the shore, hippos and birds that nest on the trunks of dead trees, there is much to learn and explore here. We will visit the Mola community and partner with the community to build and erect a lion boma in the village. Lion bomas and the lion guardian program are part of our efforts to mitigate human wildlife conflict in the area through empowering, educating and equipping the community to live in harmony with wildlife. Our lion guardians use ‘vuvuzela’s’ to warn the community when they are lions in the area so they can herd their livestock into the lion bomas to keep them safe from predators. By building a boma here we will contribute towards the efforts to keep livestock safe and reducing retalitating killing of wildlife in the area.

🚐: Game drive transfer from Bumi Hills Safari Lodge to Bumi Airstrip.

✈️: Scheduled safari aircraft flight from Bumi Airstrip to Victoria Falls International Airport.

🚐: Road transfer from Victoria Falls International Airport to Thorntree River Lodge.

We conclude the trip in Zambia with a visit to the rhino trekking project in Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, where a crash of white rhinos is under 24-hour protection by rangers with the aim of conserving them. The crash has increased from 4 rhinos in 2008 to now 10. You will get to witness these magnificent animals up close, and learn about their behaviour and the conservation efforts to keep them safe. Additionally, we will visit the young farmer club at Maunga Primary School, where learners from Maunga Village learn the importance of co-existing with wildlife in the national park, land regeneration and conserving natural resources. The conservation club at the school provides agricultural education through the vegetable garden, where students learn valuable farming skills that they can practice and use at home to grow a vegetable garden that will support and feed their families. 

🚐: Road transfer from Thorntree River Lodge to Livingstone International Airport.