Hwange National Park

Hwange is one of the great undiscovered gems of southern Africa. Zimbabwe’s largest national park covers 14,651 km² of Kalahari sand and teak forest straddling the border with Botswana. The elephant population — estimated between 40,000 and 50,000 — is one of the largest in the world and creates extraordinary dry-season concentrations around the park’s artificial waterholes. Hwange has exceptional African wild dog numbers, one of their last strongholds in southern Africa. The camp culture here preserves something increasingly rare: the old-fashioned walking safari tradition led by Zimbabwe’s supremely trained Professional Guides, widely considered the finest in Africa.