Chalo Africa’s Safari to Mana Pools National Park
A Customizable Trip to Zimbabwe
Highlights
This safari will give you full coverage of this amazing National Park and all the different aspects of it from a scenery, and wildlife perspective.
Price Available
On Request
Duration
10 days / 9 nights
Transport
Fly-in Safari
Accommodation
Tented & Mobile Safari Camps
Exploring
Mana Pools National Park
About this Safari
You will be guided all the way by professional guides that know Mana Pools intimately and know how to get the best from this beautiful part of Africa. It is important to have a reasonable level of fitness to ensure that you don’t find the activities of long walks and the canoeing too difficult.
Based on a minimum of 4 guests travelling.
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Day By Day Itinerary
Day 1 - 2 : Camp Zambezi
You leave Harare by light aircraft that will fly you to Mana Pools where you will be met on the ground there and your Mana Pools Safari starts straight from the Airstrip. You will have a game drive to camp where you can settle in and get a feel for your new surroundings on the banks of the Zambezi River.
A full day to enjoy the wonderful game viewing of this beautiful wildlife area…
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Day 3: River Zambezi
Today we will leave camp with day packs and set off down the flood plain and along the river to explore different areas and to get ourselves to our next nights camp further down the river. Expect that you would walk for about 20km…
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Day 4: Walk along the Nyamatusi Wilderness area
Another day of walking which will take you across the Nyamatusi Wilderness area of Mana Pool…
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Day 5: Mana Pools - Chitake Springs.
We will spend some time game viewing this area in the morning and then we will head inland to the back of Mana Pools – Chitake Springs…
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Day 6; Day at Chitake
A Full Day at Chitake to watch this amazing waterpoint, there are no real game drive roads here so for the most part we only walk or just sit and watch the water and see what happens. This is a place where you can always expect the unexpected!
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Day 7; Canoeing
After breakfast you will then transfer out of the Park through to Chirundu – the border town where you will meet your canoeing team for the canoe ride down the Zambezi back to Mana Pools. It doesn’t take long to…
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Day 8: Lower Zambezi
As you go down the river there will be times that you might feel quite intimidated by Hippo and Crocodiles, and you should be aware of this before setting off as there are many of them along this river. The guides are experienced in knowing…
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Day 9: Canoeing
Today you will be canoeing along the shoreline of Mana Pools National Park so you will see this stretch of shoreline from a very different perspective. Highlights would be catching the elephants swimming in the river to cross between the many low grassy islands.
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Day 10: Departure
This morning you will have time to wake up at your own speed or maybe go for a game drive in Mana Pools before catching your charter flight back to Harare timed to meet your International Flights.
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Rate Inclusions
- Return Air Transfers to and from Harare.
- 4 Nights Mobile Camp Mana Pools Flood Plain
- 2 Nights Mobile Camp Chitake Springs
- Road Transfer to Chirundu
- 3 Night Participatory Canoe Trail to Mana Pools
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Camp Chitake Fireplace -
Camp Tamarind Tents -
Camp Zambezi Tent Interior -
Camp Zambezi Tent View -
Canoeing Along The Zambezi -
Lunch In The Shade -
Canoeing
Mana Pools Safari 2022 Map
Harare, Harare Province, Zimbabwe
Camp Zambezi, Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe
Camp Chitake, Zambezi River, Zimbabwe
Lower Zambezi National Park, Lusaka Province, Zambia
Best Time to Visit
January
Fair
February
Fair
March
Fair
April
Fair
May
Good
June
Good
July
Best
August
Best
September
Best
October
Good
November
Fair
December
Fair
The safari begins and ends in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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