AllWays Traveller Features

For more than one-hundred-and-twenty years, The Victoria Falls Hotel has welcomed royal families, statesmen, celebrities and others to one of the most storied destinations on the African continent. It also welcomes ordinary travellers like me, but arriving there today in an airport shuttle bus doesn't have quite the same ring about it. Still, that ...

The Great Plains Foundation, the conservation and community charity founded by Great Plains' founders, Dereck and Beverly Joubert, has announced a new rewilding initiative in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley. In one of the largest wildlife relocations, Project Rewild Zambezi will see 3,000 animals moved from Zimbabwe's Savé Valley Conservancy to Great Pla...

Great Plains, the tourism conservation organisation founded by Dereck and Beverly Joubert, will open a new Zimbabwe camp for the Spring 2022 season. Mpala Jena Camp is a private concession within the Zambezi National Park near Victoria Falls, offering a unique and unforgettable Zimbabwean safari experience. Mpala Jena Camp will be located in the Za...

After a 27-year absence, critically endangered southern black rhino have been successfully relocated to Gonarezhou National Park in the south-eastern region of Zimbabwe. The groundbreaking relocation was conducted late last year by the non-profit Malilangwe Trust, in partnership with the Gonarezhou Conservation Trust, in a crucial conservation inte...

The name Victoria Falls refers to both the body of water and the town of the same name in Zimbabwe, from where you can enter the national park and watch as the upper Zambezi River plunges 354 feet down to the middle level. Equally, the falls can be seen on the Zambian side of the river from Livingstone, the town named after Scottish explorer Dr Dav...

Eco-tourism company Great Plains is to open its Tembo Plains Camp on 1 August 2021. The camp will be located on the private 118,000-hectare Sapi Reserve, whose northern border is over 40kms of the Zambezi River. The Mana Pools Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, forms the Sapi Reserve's western border. With four guest tents, a two-bedroom family...