Zimbabwe offers a variety and diversity of attractions. Some of these are:
Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe and boasts the National
Gallery of Zimbabwe and the Harare Gardens, the city's largest park.
World-famous
Victoria Falls
is one of the world's great attractions, measuring a 1.7km wide and dropping between 90m
and 107m into the Zambezi Gorge.
The Great Zimbabwe National Monument is the greatest
medieval city in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence that ancient Africa reached a
level of civilisation not suspected by early scholars.
In the Hwange National Park you'll find one of the
densest concentrations of wildlife in Africa. Animals you can expect to see include
elephant, monkey, baboon, impala, lion, giraffe and zebra.
The Matobo National Park near
Bulawayo has a wealth of ancient San paintings and old
grain bins, where warriors once stored their provisions.
At the Mana Pools National Park, with its 4 pools,
you're almost guaranteed to see hippo and crocodile, as well as zebra, antelope and
elephant and prolific bird life.
Lake Kariba, is an
inland sea of two hundred kilometers long and forty kilometers wide at its widest point
with the Matusadona National Park (bordering the lake) offering a different experience of
the wilderness.
Zimbabwe is a mecca for the outdoor-lover and adventure traveller. In the Victoria Falls
area alone you can go white-water rafting, kayaking, micro lighting, parachuting,
horse-riding, cycling and even do the world's highest bungi jump.
The Matusadona Wilderness offer superb hiking, the Kariba area offers sailing,
house-boating and other water activities and the middle Zambezi is ideal for long-distance
canoeing.
And you can obviously go on safari or enjoy golfing on some of the world's least expensive
and least crowded golfing courses.
