Zambia Travel Guide - Zambia Safaris Packages

Visiting Africa is great fun due to variety of activities including elephant back safari and this isn’t just a ride but a memorable experience where clients get to interact with the elephants as they enjoy a ride through wilderness and beautiful riverine scenery. The activity is found near Thorntree Lodge around 10 km from Livingstone. Zambezi Elephant Trails has led to the initiation of Zambia’s first Elephant Camp. It   offers a once in a lifetime insight into these gentle giants together with this ecologically friendly method of game viewing and a strong emphasis is put on an Elephant experience rather than just an Elephant ride and guests are encouraged to interact with these majestic and intelligent African mammals.

Past arrival to the bush site, the Head Guide will give a short introductory talk including safety aspects, and the guests will then be introduced to the Elephants and their guides, then climbe on top of the Elephants which mark the start of the safari.

The trails lead through riverine bush and the banks of the Zambezi River and the ride lasts for 1-3 hour. On completing the ride, guests will dismount and interact with the Elephants on the ground. Each Elephant is under the charge of a guide, whom is fully experienced with all the camp elephants and clients will leave having witnessed the elephant’s incredible skills, intelligence and willingness to respond to instruction.  While on the ride, clients may see other wild elephant as well as buffalo, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest and a host of other plains game.  Along the Zambezi River, hippo and crocodile are common and there is a wide variety of bird species.  Trips are available in the morning and afternoon.

Africa Travel Packages

1. Elephant Hills Hotel: Situated on a small hill overlooking the Zambezi River, 4km

   upstream from the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.