6 Days / 5 Nights Victoria Falls, Hwange & Matobo Hills

Transfer to Hwange with a guided stop at the Painted Dog Conservation Centre. Lunch, then an afternoon game drive to the pumped pans.

Full day in Hwange, dawn and afternoon game drives, siesta over lunch, optional guided bush walk with an armed professional guide. Floodlit waterhole in the evening.

Morning game drive, brunch, then the road transfer south-east to the Matobo Hills (approximately 4–5 hours) via Hwange town and Gwayi. Check in near the park. Sundowners on a granite whaleback with views over the balancing-rock landscape.

Full day in Matobo Hills National Park, on-foot white rhino tracking with a specialist guide in the Whovi intensive protection zone, San rock-art shelters at Nswatugi and Pomongwe (some of the finest in Southern Africa), and World's View at Malindidzimu, the grave of Cecil John Rhodes on a granite dome. Picnic lunch in the hills. Late afternoon raptor viewing, Matobo has the world's densest breeding population of black eagle.

Morning Bulawayo city tour, the National Railway Museum, the Natural History Museum and the colonial-era avenues, then transfer to Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport for afternoon flights, or an overland connection to Harare.