|  | The canoe safari offers the participants the time to get to know the Zambezi and its moods - from the brooding silence of the Kariba Gorge to the vast Panoramic flood plains of Mana.
- Campfire dinners
- Kariba Gorge
- Mana Pools
- Lake Kariba
- Game viewing
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| Start: Kariba
Scheduled flights: Harare Airport
Your briefing will be held at Kariba Breezes Hotel at 18:15 at the lower pool terrace on the evening before your trip departs. After the briefing you will be asked to sign an indemnity form. Canoeing Safaris will collect you for the briefing and return you to your hotel afterwards.
Please note that this is a camping safari and there are no fixed ablution facilities along the way All times given in this trip description are approximate. They will vary from trip to trip. | Day 1 Kariba
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. | Day 2 Kariba
Your group will be woken at sunrise for tea, coffee and biscuits before you start canoeing. Between 08:00 and 09:30 a stop will be made for breakfast.
Your group will resume canoeing until a lunch stop is made at 13:00, with time for a siesta.
Between 15:00 and 17:00 your group will paddle to the next camping spot at Twin Logs Island. | Day 3
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. | Day 4
Your programme is the same as day two with the night stop being made at Lone Acacia Island. | Day 5
Your programme is the same as day two and four with the night stop being made at Trichelia Island. | Day 6 Mana Pools
The group is woken up at sunrise for tea, coffee, biscuits and breakfast before paddling starts at 08:00. The group arrives at Mana Pools at 10:00 where the canoes are loaded on to the vehicles for the return trip to Kariba. Arrival time in Kariba is approximately 14:30. | End: Kariba
Scheduled flights: Harare Airport | Note:
No children under the age of 15 accepted unless accompanied by a guardian & there are no other paying clients. |
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