Zimbabwe

A journey to Zimbabwe will take you through an attractive patchwork of landscapes, from highveld, balancing boulders and flaming msasa trees, to laidback towns, lush mountains and lifeblood rivers. Here you can spot the Big Five (leopard, lion, rhino, elephant and buffalo) in its national parks, discover World Heritage–listed archaeological sites and stand in awe of one of the natural wonders of the world, Victoria Falls.

African elephants - Loxodonta africana - walking past a waterhole in acacia woodlands at dawn,  Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe, Africa

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