Canoeing Safaris will collect you from your hotel the morning of your safari in time for a check in at the Canoeing Safaris office at 08:00 to hand in any extra luggage and valuables. Please do not take you passport on the river with you! Your safari will depart from Kariba Breezes at 08:30 for shopping to purchase any extra drinks for your trip. After arriving at the Kariba Gorge, your luggage is then carried into the Gorge and your group will walk the 1.5 km down to the River. Here you will meet all your canoeing and camping equipment that has been carried into the Gorge already. A safety talk and demonstration on how to paddle a canoe will be given to your group. At 11:00, paddling will begin until a stop is made for lunch at 13:00. Lunch is a picnic style lunch with time for a siesta afterwards to pass the heat of the day until 14:30 / 15:00. Your group then paddles until approximately 17:00 when you set up camp on an island in the middle of the River named Crocodile Rocks. There is time to have a bucket bath, relax and have dinner after a brief safety talk on camping.

Your group will be woken at sunrise for tea, coffee, biscuits and breakfast before you start canoeing. Paddling will start around 08:00. Between 10:30 and 11:00 you will reach the pick up point at Chirundu where your equipment will be loaded and you will receive fresh and clean equipment for the second leg of your safari. The group will resume paddling after a light packed lunch to the night stop at Kakomarara Island.

Your programme is the same as day two and four with the night stop being made at Trichelia Island.