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Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe

A Zimbabwean border town and practical base for the national park, the falls, and a later southbound continuation.

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Hwange National Park

Kalahari sandveld, teak woodland, grassland, and a managed waterhole network extend across Zimbabwe's largest national park.

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Victoria Falls National Park 1 video available.

Zimbabwe's protected viewpoints along the rainforest edge of Victoria Falls.

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Four Corners Experience

Follow the recognized route from Ngoma Bridge through Chobe Riverfront and Kasane, reach Impalila Island by boat, then continue through Victoria Falls to Livingstone at the Zambezi.

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Lusaka to Victoria Falls 2 videos available.

Lusaka leads to an overnight in Choma, onward to Livingstone and both sides of Victoria Falls, then back to Livingstone for the southbound crossing into Botswana.

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Nairobi to Cape Town and Back 28 videos available.

A nine-country overland loop shaped by the road actually traveled: south from Nairobi through Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, and Lesotho, then home through Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, and …

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Zambezi Safari Circuit

A Zimbabwe–Zambia Safari traverse from the shared Falls landscape to Hwange's dry woodland, Lake Kariba and Matusadona, then Mana Pools and Lower Zambezi's connected river ecosystem. It is …

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Safari from Victoria Falls

A Zambezi city anchoring western Zimbabwe and the road-and-rail corridor toward Hwange.

Air, rail, road and border connections make Victoria Falls a useful western Zimbabwe gateway without turning the Falls themselves into a Safari Place.

The A8 and railway connect toward Hwange and Bulawayo; regional travel also uses the formal bridge crossing to Livingstone.