Your briefing will be held at the Kariba Breezes Hotel at 18h15 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.


DAY ONE (18 km)

1. Canoeing Safaris will collect you on the morning of your safari in time for a check in at the Canoeing Safaris’ office at 08h00 to hand in extra luggage and valuables. Please do not take your passport on the River with you!


2. Your safari will depart from Kariba Breezes at 08h30 for shopping to purchase any extra drinks for your trip. Your group will leave the shop at 09h00 for the start of the canoe safari.


3. 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.


4. A safety talk and demonstration on how to paddle a canoe will be given to your group.


5. At 11h00, paddling will begin until a stop is made for lunch at 13h00.


6. Lunch is a picnic-style lunch with time for a siesta afterwards to pass the heat of the day until 14h30 / 15h00.


7. Your group then paddle until approximately 17h00 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 TWO (27 km)

1. Your group will be woken at sunrise for tea, coffee and biscuits before you start canoeing.


2. Between 08h00 and 09h30 a stop will be made for breakfast.


3. Your group will resume canoeing until a lunch stop is made at 13h00, with time for a siesta.


4. Between 15h00 and 17h00 your group will paddle to the next camping spot at Twin Logs Island.


DAY THREE (28 km)

1. Your group will be woken at sunrise for tea, coffee, biscuits and breakfast before you start canoeing.


2. Paddling will start around 08h00. Between 10h30 and 11h00 you will reach the pick up point at Chriundu where your equipment will be loaded and you will receive fresh and clean equipment for the second leg of your safari.


3. The group will resume paddling after a light packed lunch to the night stop at Kakomarara Island.


DAY FOUR (27 km)

Your programme is the same as day two with the night stop being made at Lone Acacia Island.


DAY FIVE (23 km)

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


DAY SIX (27 km)

1. The group is woken up at sunrise for tea, coffee, biscuits and breakfast before paddling starts at 08h00.


2. The group arrives at Mana Pools at 10h00 where fresh supplies are received. You will also have a light packed lunch before canoeing resumes between 12h30 and 13h30.


3. At about 16h30, the group will arrive at the night stop, Chikwenya Island.


DAY SEVEN (24 km)

1. The group wakes up at sunrise for tea, coffee and biscuits before paddling about an hour for the breakfast spot.


2. After breakfast between 08h30 and 09h30, you paddle until 12h30 where a lunch stop is made followed by a siesta until about 15h00.


3. The group paddles to Chewore High Sand Bank where the night stop is made.


DAY EIGHT (30 km)

The programme is the same as day two with the night stop being made in the Mupata Gorge.


DAY NINE (28 km)

The programme is the same as day two and three with the night stop being made at the Redcliffs.


DAY TEN (15 km)

The group wakes up at sunrise for tea, coffee and biscuits and breakfast before paddling for approximately one hour to Kanyemba, where the canoes and kit are packed on to the vehicle, followed by the trip back to Kariba which is approximately eight hours by road. Arrival time in Kariba is around 16h00.


PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A CAMPING SAFARI WHERE THERE ARE NO FIXED ABLUTION FACILITIES ALONG THE WAY. ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE APPROXIMATE AND WILL VARY FROM TRIP TO TRIP.

General Information


Our safaris are self-participatory which means that camps are not already set up and that everyone helps set up their tents each evening (very easy to set up two-man dome tents).

We can take a minimum of 2 pax and a maximum of 8 pax.

We have a minimum age limit of 15 years - there is no maximum age limit but discretion must be used.

No previous canoeing experience is necessary but we do require our guests to be reasonably fit and healthy.

We have a luggage room and safe facilities for any extra luggage - the maximum luggage limit on the River is 10 kgs.

We prefer guests to be in Kariba the day before and the day after their safari. 

There is a pre-trip briefing the night before a safari at Kariba Breezes Hotel lower pool terrace at 18h15.

Animals seen on the trip usually include elephant, buffalo, impala, waterbuck, hippo, crocodile and plenty of birdlife. Lion and leopard are more difficult to see but they are certainly in the area. We do not guarantee that plenty of game will be seen on safari.



WHAT COSTS INCLUDE

1. Transfers to and from the airport the day before and the day after the safari, to and from respective hotel.


2. Transfers to and from the briefing at Kariba Breezes Hotel the night before and also transfers to Breezes on the day of the safari.


3. Road transfers to and from the safari - e.g. from Chirundu / to Mana Pools.


4. All meals - three full meals per day plus biscuits in between. We do cater for dietary preferences, such as vegetarian or diabetic - please could guests let us know a bit in a advance if they do have any preferences.


5. Drinks - cordials not minerals. There is no alcohol, except for a bottle of wine with dinner each evening. If guests would like to take their own alcohol or minerals we do supply a cooler box which will carry quite a few tins.


6. All canoeing equipment - the canoes are two-man Canadian-style canoes, and the paddles are American Carlisle paddles.


7. All camping equipment - two-man dome tents, sleeping bags, liners, mattress, mosquito net, fly sheet, ground sheet and tarpaulin (in case of rainy weather).


8. A fully qualified canoe guide.


9. National Parks Fees. (not inc in SA res rates and Zim res rates)


10. River Usage Fees. (not inc in SA res rates and Zim res rates)