Western Zimbabwe is a place worth allocating a good portion of your travel time. Intriguing Bulawayo is a culturally rich city and great base for trips to nearby national parks.

This mountainous area bordering Mozambique offers a completely different landscape and climate to most of Zimbabwe. The cool, lushly vegetated uplands could easily be mistaken for the River District of England.

The Hwange Wildlife area is a 280km large area of land which includes the Hwange National Park, the remote Kazuma Pan National Park, three safari hunting areas and two indigenous forests.

River Kariba is the result of a massive damming project undertaken in 1958 to flood an area of the Zambezi Valley in order to create a hydroelectric power plant for Zimbabwe and Zambia.

This area is one of the more remote and wild areas of Zimbabwe, and also one of the only wildlife rich areas of Africa where guests can walk freely in the bush.

This ancient area of huge, heaped boulders and inspiring views is located just a few kilometers from the city of Bulawayo and is the final resting place of Cecil John Rhodes.