THINGS TO DO IN VICTORIA FALLS THAT WILL GET YOU on Safari and seeing Wildlife!
Africa is the safari continent and Victoria Falls the perfect wildlife destination! With Victoria Falls town literally located within a National Park, you don’t have to go far to start your safari and encounter the wildlife that call this area home. Warthogs walking around town, elephants in the streets, hippos on the lawns and even the odd lion and leopard often wonder through.
Besides the wildlife that roam in and around town, the greater area is abundant with animals, more than enough to fill your safari bucket list. For most people, the wildlife they want to see of safari is the Big 5, and Victoria Falls certainly delivers. Home to an abundance of elephants, buffalo, lion and leopard, as well as a healthy population of rhino of one of the private game reserves.
Besides the many safari drives you can go on, there are also a wide range of wildlife related activities to choose from. Organizations that have wildlife in their care and who help raise much needed funds and awareness for the continued conservation of these species and the wildlife area.
To help you choose your ultimate wildlife safari experience, we have listed our Top 8 Wildlife and Safari Activities!
1. Guided Safari Wildlife Walk
Wildlife Safaris are one thing, but when done on foot they are truly spectacular. Nothing brings you closer to nature than getting out onto the ground on a walking safari.
Get off the beaten track and explore parts of nature that vehicles can’t get to.
Wildlife just acts differently to people on foot than they do when in a vehicle. The best part is, when the animals move off your drive continues looking for the next sighting. Not on a walking safari! Without the restriction of roads you adventure off the beaten track in search of our amazing wildlife.
Walking wildlife safaris are not for the faint hearted. You are now in the animal’s domain and caution and respect are the order of the day. But to be mere meters from a towering elephant bull, or close enough to a lion kill that you can smell it is incomparable.
That is why our Guided Safari Wildlife Walk takes tops spot in our list!
2. Canoe Safari Down The Zambezi
If walking safaris are not for you, then why not jump on a canoe and take a paddle down the mighty Zambezi River for your wildlife experience? No whirling engines or screeching breaks, this is one of the most tranquil wildlife safari activities you can do.
Meandering along the banks, pulled by the current of the river allows you to simply take it all in from the safety of your canoe. Safety from the land animals that is. With one eye on the banks, hoping for your next wildlife sighting, the other eye is on the water. Your safari is not just about the land animals. The Zambezi is home to hippos and crocodiles, both of which are commonly encountered on your canoe safari.
Besides the prospects of seeing wildlife on both the banks and the river during your canoe safari, you also have the best possible bird viewing experience. The quietness of the canoe allows you to drift under trees and observe all the many bird species going about their daily tasks.
A canoe ride down the Zambezi is by far the most tranquil, peaceful wildlife safari activity you can do in Victoria Falls!
3. Feast Of The Beasts – Lion And Safari Park Encounter
Nothing about the Feast of the Beasts safari is peaceful and tranquil. Here you get up close and personal with the ferocious King of the Jungle as he charges down for food. A truly one of a kind lion safari that guarantees not just seeing lions, but experiencing them like never before.
Besides lions, this wildlife safari activity offers a range of guaranteed animal sightings, from hyena to ostrich, to a falconry displays with the world’s fastest animal, the peregrine falcon. Not only are wildlife sighting guaranteed, but the whole experience is very educational, designed to showcase the wonders our natural world has to offer in a unique and ethical way. These animals act as ambassadors for conservation and help bring a deeper love and understanding towards nature.
Not only does this safari activity give you wildlife like never seen before, but it is also completely safe, and great for the whole family.
The only wildlife safari activity in Victoria Falls that guarantees sights, and all in the name of conservation!
4. Chobe National Park Day Trip
When it comes to an authentic African wildlife safari, there is not a lot that can beat a day trip to Chobe National Park in Botswana. This Park is world renowned for its incredible safaris and abundant wildlife. Plus it’s in Botswana, so you can add another country stamp to your passport.
The Chobe National Park wildlife Safari is a full day activity from Victoria Falls. The journey to the border goes through the Zambezi National Park and is a wildlife safari on its own, with guests often encountering elephants, wild dogs and hyena.
Once in Chobe, guests spend the morning exploring the National Park along the banks of the Chobe River, before lunching at one of the lodges. The afternoon is spent aboard a cruise boat winding its way between the many hippos and crocodiles that call this river home.
Chobe National Park is home to a huge population of elephants, an animal that has become synonymous with safari drives in this area. During the dry season, it’s not uncommon to encounter literally hundreds of these wildlife giants in a single safari.
The Chobe National Park Wildlife Safari Activity is perfect for those that want to commit a whole day to exploring the wild!
5. Walk With Giants – Elephant Encounter
Speaking of big wildlife, our Walk with Giants Elephant Safari is always a hit with our guests. Sure seeing elephants on a game drive is amazing, but actually meeting them and getting to know their personalities is truly a safari like no other. You only get a real appreciation of their sheer size when you are standing next to them, towering meters above you.
The closeness you can achieve on this wildlife safari is unparalleled. So close you can count their eyelashes, feel the bristle of the hair on their bodies and understand the incredible dexterity these animals have with their trunks. Be in awe of just how gentle such a giant can be, and how quietly they can move around. Its opportunities like this that are on offer with this wildlife safari activity.
These elephants are all captive raised and rescued by various disasters over the years. Some have been released back into the wild, but the complexity of their social structures makes it very challenging. As such the elephants who are the lead role in this one of a kind wildlife safari have a permanent human family that takes care of them. This activity gives you the opportunity to “join the herd” as they go about their daily elephant lives!
This close up wildlife safari activity will leave you truly amazed by the intricacy of these gentle giants.
6. Safari Helicopter Flight – 25mins
Helicopter flights are best known for the birds’ eye view of the magical Victoria Falls. But this can be combined with a wildlife safari flight too. Instead of the 15 min Falls tour, add on and extra 10 min and take a flight over the Zambezi National Park. This is surly one of the quickest and most comfortable ways to conduct a wildlife safari.
Like an eagle soaring above, you are able to cover large distances in a very short space of time. Scanning the ground below to spot the next animal. Without the limitations of road networks or slow moving walks you are able to see many animals from your aerial vantage point. Given you height above ground, this is a wildlife safari that focuses on the big game such as elephants, buffalo and giraffe. Those with great spotting skills may be able to spot the smaller stuff.
Given the relatively short duration of this wildlife safari, it is great for those that are pressed for time. Combining two of the Victoria Falls must see activities, the waterfall and the wildlife.
7. Horseback Safari
There is truly no better way to experience wildlife then on a horse back safari. With the animals being very relaxed around the horses you are able to approach to with meters without them being worried at all. On a horseback safari you don’t merely see herds of animals, you actually move through herds of animals. Buffalo barely pay attention to you, elephants ignore you, and zebra embrace you as a long lost cousin!
Because the wildlife treat you as one of their own when on the back of a horse this is only a safari activity for those that are experienced riders. It’s great being accepted by the herds of plains animals, but predators also treat you as such, and that can mean lunch!! But have no fear, our horseback wildlife safaris are led of extremely skilled guides who have been doing this for years. Riding through nature is in their blood.
The horseback wildlife safari is the closest we humans can get to nature, and a must do activity for those that are competent riders!
8. Crocodile Diving Safari Activity
Being in the water, surrounded by crocodiles is the image of nightmares. Not with our Crocodile Diving safari. With you safely locked away in a cage (for your protection) you will have the incredibly unique safari opportunity to experience crocodiles in their natural environment, under the water!
With scuba gear on, this wildlife safari activity sees you submerged alongside these prehistoric beasts offering them little morsels of meat through the bars of your cage. Crocodiles have not changed for centuries, they haven’t had to! They are perfect killing machines, and this safari activity shows you just that. Whilst crocodiles are animals that strike fear into the hearts of even lions, they are incredible animals to observe on a safari, particularly under water in their natural habitat. Did you know that a crocodile floats with its body hanging down in the water?
This wildlife safari activity is perfect for those that have no issue staring death in the face!
Final Thoughts
Whatever your choice of Wildlife Safari Activity in Victoria Falls you will not be disappointed. This area has so much to offer in terms of unique, one of a kind animal sightings.
Be it from the air, on foot, by boat or face to face you will no doubt leave being very satisfied with your wildlife safari activity!
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