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. Your group will be transferred by open landcruiser to Chirundu, arriving at approximately 11h30. The canoes and kit will be unloaded.


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


5. At around 12h00, paddling will begin until 17h00.


6. Lunch is a packed lunch taken on the River.


7. At approximately 17h00 you will set up camp on an island named Kakomara, there is time to bath, relax and have dinner after a brief safety talk on camping.


DAY TWO (27 km)

1. Your group will be woken up at sunrise for tea, coffee, biscuits before paddling from 06h00 to 08h00 when you stop for breakfast.


2. At approximately 09h30 the gorup will resume canoeing until you reach the lunch stop at 12h30. After lunch there is a siesta and time to catch up on reference books until 14h30 / 15h00 depending on the weather.


3. Canoeing continues until approximately 17h00, when the second night stop is made at Lone Acacia Island.


DAY THREE (23 km)

The programme is as per day two, with the night stop being made at Trichelia Island.


DAY FOUR (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 the canoes are loaded on to the vehicles and fresh supplies are off loaded, and canoeing proceeds until 12h30.


3. A short lunch break is made where you will receive a light packed lunch. Canoeing starts at approximately 14h30. At around 17h00 the group will arrive at the night stop, Nyamatusi Island.


DAY FIVE (24 km)

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


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


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


DAY SIX (30 km)

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


DAY SEVEN (28 km)

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


DAY EIGHT (15 km)

The group wakes up at sunrise for tea, coffee and biscuits and breakfast before paddling for about 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 ABLUTION FACILITIES ALONG THE WAY. ALL TIMES GIVEN ARE APPROXIMATE AND WILL VARY FROM TRIP TO TRIP.