Read Wild Zambezi s Newsletter for February 2016 online at http://eepurl.com/bS5hdb Sign up at the bottom of this page to receive future newsletters straight to your inbox. FEBRUARY 2016 HEADLINES:- - Zimbabwe relaxes its visa regime - Low cost flights now link Johannesburg, Harare Vic Falls - Collaborative blitz on poaching pro...

Fed up with being stuck in the office, we decided to visit a few of Zimbabwe’s National Parks last month. We opted for Mana Pools as our first stop, a place we had not found time to visit for the last 3 years. Unforgiveable ! The lodges in Mana are booked through the National Parks office in Harare - (see ZimParks) Zimparks are i...

Wild Zambezi s news for January 2016 is now out. Read it online at http://eepurl.com/bOMdAf or sign up on this website to receive it in your inbox. JANUARY HEADLINES:- - KAZA Uni-Visa latest - Fastjet flies JHB-HRE - Vic Falls water levels rising fast - Welcome, Little Gorges - New Spa at Vic Falls River Lodge and much more...

Following on from recent reports that the US$50 Uni-Visa introduced in 2014-2015 to ease travel between Zimbabwe and Zambia had been suspended, the KAZA TFCA UNIVISA PROJECT issued the following statement on 7th January 2016:- We, the Republics of Zambia and Zimbabwe, two Partner Countries of the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area...

Wild Zambezi has been advised that the KAZA uni-visa is no longer being issued. The issuing of the KAZA visa has been suspended effective immediately in both Zimbabwe and Zambia. Please be aware that this could change in the near future and that we will keep you abreast of any changes. All Standard visas are still being issued and detail...

Read all the latest tourism news and items of topical interest from the Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe in Wild -Zambezi s December 2015 newsletter at this link:- Wild Zambezi News December 2015

Read all the latest tourism news and items of topical interest from the Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe in Wild -Zambezi s November 2015 newsletter at this link:- Wild Zambezi News November 2015

What happens when a new tourism hub is born? A leading and interesting question, no doubt. That new tourism hub is Victoria Falls and the catalyst for that birth is, of course, the Victoria Falls International Airport (pictured), which becomes operational in early December 2015. While Victoria Falls, not only the world’s la...

Keith Ballantyne of Kariba Houseboat Cruises has his tongue firmly in his cheek in this article about the situation with Kariba Dam and the lake s water levels. But, as a long-standing resident of Kariba, he brings some level-headed sense to all the recent media-hype: READ ON.... You may have heard all the stories about the imminent collaps...

It is 4.30pm on a Thursday in September, and my party is getting crotchety. We have been travelling through the African wilderness since dawn. It is 35C outside but, because we are low on fuel, we have turned the air conditioning off, raising temperatures literally and metaphorically. It has not rained for six months, and the scene resembles a set ...