Blog:Road Trip and Working Holiday around Zimbabwe October 2020 (Final Part – Shongwe Lookout, Abangane Houseboat, Hippo Cottage & the long drive home)
After all our gallivanting about the bush, it was quite nice to be heading to Victoria Falls for a few days to catch up with friends and do a bit of shopping before heading back home. We had never been to Shongwe Lookout Guest Lodge because it is quite a recently built lodge and in […]
Blog –Road Trip and Working Holiday around Zimbabwe October 2020 (Part 6 – Robins Camp & Iganyana Tented Camp)
From Deteema Springs we travelled to another of Machaba Safaris’s lodges, this being the newly refurbished Robins Camp which is also in the north western section of Hwange National Park. Various friends had reported that Robins was not in good condition and they were all keen to hear back from us on what it was […]
Road Trip and Working Holiday around Zimbabwe October 2020 (Part 5 – Nehimba Tented Lodge & Deteema Springs)
Hwange National Park is an exceptional National Park in Zimbabwe, but due to the distance it is from where we live, we don’t get to visit it as often as we’d like. So it was great to have an excuse to spend some time there in October of this year. We started off by driving […]
Road Trip and Working Holiday around Zimbabwe October 2020 (Part 4 – The Bulawayo Club)
After our exhausting trip of 10.5 hours from Gonarezhou National Park, we were very glad to finally make it to Bulawayo. After spending the first night with a friend, we were excited to be booking into the famous Bulawayo Club. The club is located in the heart of the city on the Corner of 8th […]
Road Trip and Working Holiday around Zimbabwe October 2020 (Part 3 – Gonarezhou)
As we continued our trip around Zimbabwe, we had set ourselves quite a daunting task upon leaving Chilo Gorge Safari Lodge, when we made plans to travel all the way from the Chilo entrance of the Gonarezhou National Park, on the far northern boundary, to the Mabalauta area, in the southernmost part of the park, […]
Gonarezhou National Park
Gonarezhou literally means ‘The Place of Elephants” which is a most suitable name considering this park has an estimated elephant population of 11,000! These particular elephants have always had a reputation for being extra cheeky. Being sited on the border the elephants have been exposed to extended years of poaching due to over the border […]
Robins Camp
Robins Camp is situated in the north western section of the Hwange National Park, 110 kilometres from Victoria Falls and 55 kilometres from the Botswana – Pandamatenga border. The camp area was originally Little Toms and Big Toms farms acquired by Herbert George Robins in the early 1900’s. In 1934 fearing that ‘Tom’s Farms’ would […]
Road Trip and Working Holiday around Zimbabwe October 2020 (Part 2 – Chilo)
Following on from our last blog, when we described the start of our 3 week trip around Zimbabwe, we began by visiting the Italian church near Masvingo, then Birchenough Bridge followed by spending a few days at Humani Ranch – Turgwe River Lodge in the Save Conservancy. From Humani we travelled down through the Conservancy […]
Road trip and working holiday around Zimbabwe – Oct. 2020 (Part 1)
Italian church, Birchenough Bridge & Humani – Turgwe River Lodge October 2020 brought about a big moment in our lives. Originally we had planned a trip to Cape Town to visit our God children, but COVID had other plans. Never the less, I was determined we would do something memorable, and with so many awesome […]
Shongwe Lookout Guest Lodge
Shongwe Lookout Guest Lodge, is situated in the suburbs of Victoria Falls town, 1 kilometer from the shops, and just over 2 kilometers walk from the Victoria Falls themselves. The lodge has a unique selling point in that the rooms and entertainment area are built around the base of a 2 storey platform, in which […]