Zambezi 4 Day River Expedition Itinerary

Day 1: You’ll arrive in Livingstone, Zambia, where you meet your trip leader. We’ll load up and head off for a sunset cruise on the upper Zambezi River, upstream of Victoria Falls. This is an awesome opportunity to enjoy your first glimpses of elephants, hippos, crocodiles and much more under your first African sunset. We’ll have a delicious dinner and your trip leader will conduct a pre-trip orientation, preparing participants for the following morning’s departure. That night you’ll sleep in deluxe accommodations near the Zambezi River.

Day 2: Today we begin our journey down the Zambezi, putting in directly below Victoria Falls. This is our first taste of some of the most exciting rafting in the world, and we will pay our respects to the African River God, Nyami Nyami, one wave at a time. After some spectacular rapids and a short portage, we arrive at our camp on a beautiful white sand beach in the bottom of the gorge.

Day 3: This morning we load up the gear rafts and head downstream through infamous rapids Oblivion, Overland Truck Crash, Stairway to Heaven, and many more. We reach our camp at yet another beautiful beach in time for sundowners.

Day 4: Today the rapids spread out a bit and we are able to enjoy the great scenery and wildlife of the Batoka Gorge, navigating several more colossal rapids in between with names such as Closed and Open Season and Upper Moemba. Tonight we make camp above the riverwide, 20-foot tall waterfall of Lower Moemba.

Day 5: After a deluxe breakfast and morning of leisure we begin the drive back to through traditional villages, arriving mid afternoon at the Taita Falcon Lodge, which overlooks Batoka Gorge.† After settling into cozy bungalows, we’ll commence our grand celebration banquet and party, toasting all around to completing one of the most quality river expeditions on Earth!.

Day 6: Your trip leader will accompany you to the airport for the flight back home or to the transfer location for your next destination!