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PO Box HG261, Hwange National Park, Harare, Zimbabwe | Hotel

Travel Blogs from Hwange National Park

Elephants for Africa

A travel blog entry by toni.horsman

8

... following morning and discovered that an elephant had been stuck in the mud all night. She was exhausted from struggling to free herself and her baby was getting more and more distressed watching his mum. According to the guides, she wouldn’t last more than another 24 hours, and then her baby would be an easy target for the lions – so sad to ...

Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

A travel blog entry by jeb2729

17

... we see a herd of wildebeest and zebra and I take some pictures with my cell phone. I want to capture a few of the animals on my phone so I can show pictures when I get home. Interestingly the wildebeest is one of the ugly 5 - also hyena, wart hog, marabou stork and lappet faced vulture.

Douglas drives us to a spot he knows and shows us the bones of an elephant. It is fascinating to see how the final set of teeth ...

Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

A travel blog entry by jeb2729

32

... and see the bright red of the rosewood tree. Also a southern ground hornbill who appears satisfied with a small snake in its mouth. We see both male and female wildebeest and males are all black with black mane and female has a brown forehead.

We finally get to the gate to exit the park and it is called the Ngamo gate as it is the Ngamo Village we will be visiting. First we visit the school and the heat master meets us since it is ...

Travel - Lafupu Zambia to Hwange Zimbabwe

A travel blog entry by jeb2729

14

... in on and they say they had a great time! We arrive at camp and it is lovely, move into our tents and John and I head to the pool to enjoy almost 2 hours of swimming and looking out over the plains. At 4:30 we meet and drop off our valuables bags (something we have done at each camp) to be locked up and are out on a game drive by 5 pm. It is quite windy and warm so we are glad for the wind....but a bit ...

Elephants, Elephants and more Elephants

A travel blog entry by ed.herweynen

50

... across an elephant feeding on a tree. The driver turned off all lights, so it was totally dark and we could hear every crunch of the elephant only meters away. This was somewhat different. Elephants walk surprisingly quietly; one more hears the destruction they cause. On the way to Hwange NP we stopped at a place for the conservation of Painted Dogs which are endangered. Strangly Painted Dogs are neither painted nor dogs although they look like they ...

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